Chuck Palahniuk's decision to write this novel about a foreign agent's mission to destroy America as a pidgin English diary may be the most interesting thing about it. The mannered prose never really clicks, so it is always calling attention to itself, but it works to strip the subjects down to their essentials: American power, tyranny, religion, love. Palahniuk's callbacks, repetition, and humor are effective, too.
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