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By David McCracken
In Haunted, Snuff, Pygmy, Tell-All, Damned and Invisible Monsters Remix, he confronts marginalization and disenfranchisement via parodies of varied works—The Decameron, The Inferno, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, The Elephant Man—as good as Hollywood heritage, Nineteen Seventies karate movies and the porn undefined. This entire examine of six novels refutes feedback that Palahniuk’s pursuits are to surprise and sensationalize.
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