Sunday, May 10, 2009

REVIEW: Pygmy


Since Dr. Steve has taken the liberty to consistently update this site, I thought I'd interject for a bit with some of my own confusing elaborations on projects to buy.

Get Chuck Palahniuk's Pygmy


It's absolutely fantastic. The man produces fiction the way the pope loses his crazy meds: frequently and in the most absurd ways.

Here we have the story of child-terrorist, sleeper-cell, Operative 67: Pygmy. He is accepted into an American host family as an exchange student from an unnamed authoritarian dictatorship. While in the United States he plans a massive terrorist event the likes of which have never been seen. Also, he learns to fall in love and not once utilizes an article in speech.

Like all of Palahniuk's books this one is as funny as it is dark. Limited to Operative 67's strained, Newspeaky dialect, certain sentences take a few read-throughs to fully digest. Nevertheless, each chapter ("Dispatches" as Pygmy calls them), are poetic and full of life. If you enjoyed Fight Club, yeah, you'll love it. If you thought Choke was funny, try this. If you know anything about any of the other books, then what are you even reading this for?