Pygmy

#598
Title: Pygmy
Author: Chuck Palahniuk 
Publisher: Anchor
Year: 2009/2010 
256 pages
Audiobook

Fun enough, and its language inspired me to re-read A Clockwork Orange. Enjoyable as an audiobook. Although sort of stupid, it's amusing, and more hopeful than much of Palahniuk's oeuvre. As always, Palahniuk undoes the power of his work by not trusting the story's world to stand without assistance, and by devolving into the kind of overboard, unrealistic violence, smut, and unreality that mars so much of his work. I'm not talking about the rape in the men's room, but the climactic (sic) moment when an explosion throws really stupid debris. With just a little more restraint, Palahniuk could transcend. At present, he still merely amuses, with stupid that's more embarrassing than entertaining.