Pygmy

Chuck Palahniuk

2009 • 258 pages

Ratings28

Average rating2.3

“Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival midwestern American airport greater _____ area. Flight _____. Date _____. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name: Operation Havoc.” Thus speaks Pygmy, one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the United States, disguised as exchange students, to live with typical American families and blend in, all the while planning an unspecified act of massive terrorism. Palahniuk depicts Midwestern life through the eyes of this thoroughly indoctrinated little killer, who hates Americans with a passion, in this cunning double-edged satire of a xenophobia that might, in fact, be completely justified.

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Nik

Well, I've been whining about how [a:Chuck Palahniuk 2546 Chuck Palahniuk http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1264506988p2/2546.jpg] keeps saying the same thing in different ways, about how it got old after I read [b:Invisible Monsters 22290 Invisible Monsters Chuck Palahniuk http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1210989634s/22290.jpg 849507]. Pygmy is different, and this makes me happy. The thing being said is really not all that different at all, but the delivery sure is. Maybe growing up in a home were English isn't our mother tongue gives me a bit of an advantage here, but I flew through this book. And that's kinda funny, ‘cos it's the first Chuck Palahniuk book that I haven't raced to finish.

April 17, 2010

basic bitch alert

It was a pathetic attempt to get philosophy/deep thinking into solid form. Similar to others, I also did not like the way it was written.

January 2, 2013

Ryan

I tried to like this book. I really did. And I usually have an aversion to not finishing books, but I had to put this one down after the first hundred pages.

I'm a big fan of Palahniuk's other work, and I know what he was trying to do with the language in this, but I just couldn't overcome it, and I knew that if I tried to finish it, I would just end up hating it.

May 29, 2009