Pygmy- Chuck Palahniuk

[myplasticyou]

Anyone start reading this yet? So far the narrative is driving me crazy and I just want to know if it gets any easier on the eyes/mind.

[B-Bones]

Nope. It doesn't.

[recomposed]

I'm half way through right now. I didn't think the narrative was too difficult to begin with, but it's the same through out. So far I'm pretty disappointed. With this and Snuff, I think Chuck's lost it.

[popdisaster00]

What's this one about? I stopped following him after Haunted.

[Adeniz19]

Forgot all about this book. I'll probably check it out eventually, but if this is as bad as Snuff was, I'm giving up on Palahniuk.

[ouroboros85]

What's this one about? I stopped following him after Haunted.
The lead character is a 13-year-old foreign exchange student sent to live with a suburban, white, middle-class family. Oh, and they're Christians. The visit is for six months, and he's one of a dozen similar kids, all shipped to America to live with typical families. The secret truth is that Pygmy is a terrorist, trained since infancy in martial arts, chemistry and radical hatred of the United States. He has six months to build a prize-winning project for the National Science Fair. If he succeeds, he and his project will go to Washington, D.C. for the finals competition -- where the project will explode, killing millions.

(that's the description it gives on his chuck's site, sounds promising....)

[ouroboros85]

Forgot all about this book. I'll probably check it out eventually, but if this is as bad as Snuff was, I'm giving up on Palahniuk.
did you enjoy rant?

[itsjustadrian]

The lead character is a 13-year-old foreign exchange student sent to live with a suburban, white, middle-class family. Oh, and they're Christians. The visit is for six months, and he's one of a dozen similar kids, all shipped to America to live with typical families. The secret truth is that Pygmy is a terrorist, trained since infancy in martial arts, chemistry and radical hatred of the United States. He has six months to build a prize-winning project for the National Science Fair. If he succeeds, he and his project will go to Washington, D.C. for the finals competition -- where the project will explode, killing millions.

(that's the description it gives on his chuck's site, sounds promising....)
Promising? That sounds pretty lame actually.

[Adeniz19]

did you enjoy rant?I actually did.

[Kif]

I wish he'd write a book without a gimmick like he used to. I still haven't finished Snuff because of the changing prespectives. Chuck can write a linear book fine, there's no need for this kind of thing.

[popdisaster00]

So what about the narrative being hard to read and it being hard on the eyes/mind? Can anyone discuss that?

[ouroboros85]

So what about the narrative being hard to read and it being hard on the eyes/mind? Can anyone discuss that?
it's because he's from another country and it's the main character speaking the whole time. just the way he talks is how he would in that country. i think my friend described it to me as broken English. i read about half a page of his book and saw what he meant. just how his sentences are formed.

[love_american_style]

I think this sounds pretty interesting. I haven't even read Snuff yet.

[popdisaster00]

it's because he's from another country and it's the main character speaking the whole time. just the way he talks is how he would in that country. i think my friend described it to me as broken English. i read about half a page of his book and saw what he meant. just how his sentences are formed.
wild.

[ohLOOKitsLEAH]

I'm half way through right now. I didn't think the narrative was too difficult to begin with, but it's the same through out. So far I'm pretty disappointed. With this and Snuff, I think Chuck's lost it.

"Which is not to say that Palahniuk -- who was raised in Burbank, Wash., a farming town without a gas station, in a trailer marooned across the street from the Burbank Tavern -- doesn't have a family tree draped in violence. His paternal grandfather shot his grandmother to death before turning the gun on himself, Palahniuk's then-3-year-old father hiding under the bed. Palahniuk's parents, after years of messy, loud fights, split when he was 14. His dad, a railroad man and a great lover of drink and women, was shot and killed a week shy of his 60th birthday by the ex-husband of a gal he'd met through the personal ads."
- http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,488215,00.html

... oh my.

[middlenameboom]

it's because he's from another country and it's the main character speaking the whole time. just the way he talks is how he would in that country. i think my friend described it to me as broken English. i read about half a page of his book and saw what he meant. just how his sentences are formed.

Broken English is definitely the way I'd describe it. I actually finished this book. Let me tell you. If you're on the fence about reading this book. DON'T. There is no pay off at the end. The book is just annoying to read. And underneath it all. The story just isn't that good. Snuff wan't bad, and I enjoyed Rant, but this one you can definitely skip. There is no redeeming qualities to this book.

[FstFtsVsFences]

Broken English is definitely the way I'd describe it. I actually finished this book. Let me tell you. If you're on the fence about reading this book. DON'T. There is no pay off at the end. The book is just annoying to read. And underneath it all. The story just isn't that good. Snuff wan't bad, and I enjoyed Rant, but this one you can definitely skip. There is no redeeming qualities to this book.

While not being one of his best, I'd still say it's certainly worth reading. I enjoyed the book, but the ending did piss me off.

Ps. Whoah, a fellow San Jose person. Nice.

[middlenameboom]

While not being one of his best, I'd still say it's certainly worth reading. I enjoyed the book, but the ending did piss me off.

Ps. Whoah, a fellow San Jose person. Nice.

It did have it's moments. It made me laugh a couple times, but I just didn't enjoy reading it all.

San HO. Represent.

[Thomas Balkcom]

Broken English is definitely the way I'd describe it. I actually finished this book. Let me tell you. If you're on the fence about reading this book. DON'T. There is no pay off at the end. The book is just annoying to read. And underneath it all. The story just isn't that good. Snuff wan't bad, and I enjoyed Rant, but this one you can definitely skip. There is no redeeming qualities to this book.

this has thoroughly convinced me to not read this book, thank you