Pygmy
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Pygmy

Pygmy--a young adult from a totalitarian state, disguised as an exchange student--plans a terrorist attack and depicts U.S. Midwestern life through the eyes of a hateful, indoctrinated little killer, in this double-edged satire of American xenophobia by the best-selling author of Fight Club.
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Patrick Book@patrickb
4 stars
Jul 5, 2024

Everyone who has previously reviewed this book on here needs to settle down.

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Alejandro AR@kinduff
4 stars
Sep 16, 2022

Of course Palahniuk can be raw, aggressive and dirty, but Pygmy really details a good story that reflects on our daily perception of racism, nationalism, and the sexual nature of humans. Very nice write up, and very good ending. As always.

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Pat G.@badsleeper
1.5 stars
Nov 18, 2021

The story had me in a few moments, and really did get better as the book went on… but mostly lost due to the use of weird “accent” that it’s written in. This ruined it for me, almost DNF early but stuck through in case it got better. The point of this seems to strengthen that the character is foreign but ended up being mostly confusing, every time I put it down it took me a whole chapter to get used to the accent again after picking it back up. I get the satire between entire world’s communism vs. USA capitalism, just a bit overkill for me. Trigger warning: brutal rape scene within the first few chapters.

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Grace McCarter@gracemccarter
2 stars
Oct 5, 2021

An experimental novel. I found the language jarring as hell, but beat my way through to the end regardless. Pygmy had its finer points, but I wouldn't read this again!

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Jordan@jordanfischerr
4 stars
May 28, 2024
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kody probst@kodypro
2 stars
Jan 2, 2023
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liam@mausoliam
2 stars
Oct 31, 2022
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Anne @annedemonium
2 stars
Aug 26, 2022
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alina s@asupernova
1 star
Aug 23, 2022
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Doug Aguililla @dougagui
2 stars
Aug 20, 2022
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Kyle Vice@kylevice
4 stars
Aug 12, 2022
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Cindy Lieberman@chicindy
3 stars
Mar 26, 2022
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SR@imnotserge
3 stars
Mar 6, 2022
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Tasha Dykstra@tashy
1 star
Mar 1, 2022
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Amanda Gilson@dinkycrow
4 stars
Feb 13, 2022
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Angelo Zinna@angelozinna
1 star
Jan 28, 2022
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Diesel Cheung@insectcondo
1 star
Dec 24, 2021
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Sara Bean Duncan@modesthiccup
3 stars
Dec 20, 2021
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Kerry Gibbons@kerryiscool
4 stars
Dec 6, 2021
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Emily Perkovich@undermeyou
4 stars
Nov 22, 2021
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Joe Woods@woods
2 stars
Oct 16, 2021
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Clarence Wee@clarence
3 stars
Sep 29, 2021
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Jess Ostrander@metalheadreader13
2 stars
Aug 26, 2021
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Raymie Smith@raymie
3 stars
Aug 9, 2021

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