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Pygmy

By Chuck Palahniuk

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PYGMY by Chuck Palahniuk

“…entire effort United State to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand. Every today American vermin offered too many objects for acquire. Offered too numerous formula for succeed. Too vast selection religion, vocation, lifestyle. No ever able ma ... (read full critics)

mostlyfiction published on Thu, 30 Sep 2010

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Chuck Palahniuk is one of those writers who get punished by critics for making them feel embarrassed about the eagerness with which their adolescent selves might have joined the writer's fan base. Fight Club, his first novel, published in 1996, made ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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Rightly unappreciated book of genious.

Begins here first review of Operative me, reader number 23563, on finish american book ███████, by author ████ ████████. Date ██████.
It took Operative me several time to read, mostly due to singularity of book, due to its badly written engrish, due to his detestable characters.
Could be, swipe-p ... (continue)

Begins here first review of Operative me, reader number 23563, on finish american book ███████, by author ████ ████████. Date ██████.
It took Operative me several time to read, mostly due to singularity of book, due to its badly written engrish, due to his detestable characters.
Could be, swipe-pow, hands of this Operative slam book to floor, like lot of stupid American pig readers did.
But instead, insisted reading book. Pygmy talks with hilarious satire about American society by the point of view of agent Pygmy, an exchange student, who's been sent by his totalitarian Homeland to bring USA to his knees. This, through terrorist acts of mass-murder.
America: a corrupted youth with no model for making, bored adults who lost love for each other and look just for sexual appagation through masturbation, and, in general, a rotten society, who alone consumes 38 % of world energy.
Recall this agent the words of most esteemed author, nihilist writer Chuck Palahniuk, quote, "For official record, if become bankrupt old retail distribution centers-labeled supermega, so-enlarged foodstuff market- later reincarnate to become worship shrine. First sell food-stuff, next then same structure sell battered furnitures, next now born as gymnasium club, next broker flea markets, only at final end of life...sell religions."
Most particular characters appear in this book. Viper Reverend Devil Tony, Ancient woman slave of Wal-Mart Doris Lilly, angel-face blonde Bully Trevor Stonefield, but most of all, cat sister of Pygmy. The story goes through surreal situations, leading Operative Pygmy to his final destination, Washington D.C.
There, with his terroristic plan, the final act of bash of Capitalism will take place.
Strongly reccommended read. Palahniuk achieves one more time another great analysis of human beings. Once Oparative gets used to the particular writing style, can wonder about how this is perfect to ridicule the modern world, and all his apparently best features. Could be, jaws of Operative me tilt up and down accompanied by noise of vocal cords, ha- ha- ha- ha-, after every one of Agent Pygmy sharp sentences.
For official record, they actually did.

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Codinh said on Nov 27, 2010 | 4 feedbacks

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Satire of American culture written from the point of view of an exchange student/spy from an unnamed totalitarian state.
Unfortunately Palahniuk has chosen to have Pygmy tell the story in dispatches to his controllers written in a severely impoverished pigeon English. Apart from being implau ... (continue)

Satire of American culture written from the point of view of an exchange student/spy from an unnamed totalitarian state.
Unfortunately Palahniuk has chosen to have Pygmy tell the story in dispatches to his controllers written in a severely impoverished pigeon English. Apart from being implausible as these should be in his native tongue it robs the story of much of the subtlety that might have made the satire more effective.

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huntch said on Sep 12, 2009 | 1 feedback

What’s a hero and what's an antihero? what does being revolutionary mean in today's America and what is America to someone that's really from outside that culture? But at the end of the day is Pygmy really from outside?
It's really a clever and hilarious book, I feel the happy end that looks a bit l ... (continue)

What’s a hero and what's an antihero? what does being revolutionary mean in today's America and what is America to someone that's really from outside that culture? But at the end of the day is Pygmy really from outside?
It's really a clever and hilarious book, I feel the happy end that looks a bit like a patch in something that could be never-ending is itself very ironic and recalls the way some serials or soaps must finish.
There's nothing to do guys we are soaked up into a modern consumerist society that grab you as soon as you give a glance at it. Maybe the best we can do is trying to look at our lives situation with the eyes of an outsider that use to calls flowers as “plants genitals”

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