I’m reading “Haunted” by Chuck Palahniuk.
It’s great. It takes “Lord of the Flies” to a new level.
I read it when it came out. It’s very good, but I liked Choke better.
This is the first I’ve read by that author. It won’t be the last. At first one may think it’s gratuitous but it’s much deeper then that.
Deep gratuity? 
djm
That pretty much sums Mr. Palahniuk up. Didn’t you see Fight Club?
You mean a good level that’s not an unpleasant, sickening treatise on the base nature of humans? In that case, I’ll think about it. 
Um… well… I think that’s a bit of wishful thinking. Maybe go to the library and read the first chapter before checking it out.
Let’s just say there’s a lot of amputation and cannibalism and mutilation and murder and blood. Otherwise it’s certainly an expose on the baseness of human nature.
Sorta like a Hannibal the Cannibal story?
I’d rather read Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, by Judy Blume.
I much prefer fact to fiction when it comes to human nature. Haven’t encountered too many cannibals lately myself, thankfully! 
http://www.1900storm.com/rebuilding/index.lasso
The Great Storm reigns today as the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. But while the storm was phenomenal, so was the response of the people who survived it.
“Sunday morning, the day after the disaster, began with the sound of bells from the ruined Ursuline Convent calling people to worship,” wrote historian David G. McComb in “Galveston: A History.”
It was a fitting beginning.
Despite the unimaginable devastation and what must have been a hard realization that it could happen again, the city immediately began pulling itself out of the mud.
By 10 a.m. Sept. 9, Mayor Walter C. Jones had called emergency city council meetings and by the end of the day had appointed a Central Relief Committee.
Ignoring advice from its sister paper, The Dallas Morning News, that it move temporarily to Houston, The Galveston Daily News continued publishing from the island and never missed an issue. Sept. 9 and 10, 1900, were published together on a single sheet of paper. One side listed the dead. The other reported the devastation of the storm.
In the first week after the storm, according to McComb’s book, telegraph and water service were restored. Lines for a new telephone system were being laid by the second.
“In the third week, Houston relief groups went home, the saloons reopened, the electric trolleys began operating and freight began moving through the harbor,” McComb wrote.
Residents of Galveston quickly decided that they would rebuild, that the city would survive, and almost as soon, leaders began deciding how it would do so…