Pygmy
If your favorite author is Jane Austen, perhaps you shouldn't cross paths quite yet with Chuck Palahniuk. The author of Snuff, Choke, and Rant might be an acquired taste, but many readers have taken the leap and come back, begging for more. Pygmy might be a good place for newcomers to start: It...
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If your favorite author is Jane Austen, perhaps you shouldn't cross paths quite yet with Chuck Palahniuk. The author of Snuff, Choke, and Rant might be an acquired taste, but many readers have taken the leap and come back, begging for more. Pygmy might be a good place for newcomers to start: It stars a 13-year-old foreign exchange student terrorist who functions, if not always adequately, as part of a cadre sent to the U.S. to unleash havoc on a quiet midwestern city. In Palahniuk's hands, this bizarre mission turns into an apt excuse for exposing both the plotters and their generally unwitting hosts.
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Format: ebook
ASIN: 9780385526340
Publish date: 05-05-2009
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Humor,
Academic,
Literature,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Suspense,
Students,
Fiction
Would I find it racially offensive to have him speak in Chinglish? (And a bad imitation as well.)Strangely. No.The tension between Hong Kong Chinese and Mainland Chinese, have taken all the possible pride I have for belonging to this race.As for the book, it is a satire. So, the plot against the Ame...
I feel like Chuck Palahniuk is more for the young and rebellious. That edgy read that tears away and perverts the mundane of suburban life and the American dream. I get it, but I am a bit over it.Reading a few Chuck Palahniuks are enjoyable until the message and delivery get a bit repetitive. At tim...
Chuck, it seems to me that you lost yourself along the way with this one. you were on the top of the pile for awhile, but your use of literary devices comes off clever, rather than adding to substance in regards to Pygmy. I got half way through this baby before i realized that its only uniqueness wa...
in a word: disturbing.. (i still admire the author for choke and fight club though...)i need a happy happy to book now..decent review in a few.
I'll state from the outset that I greatly admire Chuck Palahniuk for his inventive storytelling, muscular language, and his ability to talk about really nasty stuff in a funny way. So, my reading of his latest novel, PYGMY, is definitely colored by that bias.I'd say this is a worthy addition to his...
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