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Snuff

by: Chuck Palahniuk




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Average Buyer Rating:  out of 5 stars
Sales Rank: 1391





Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385517881
ISBN: 0385517882
Label: Doubleday
Product Manufacturer: Doubleday
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: May 20, 2008
Publisher: Doubleday
Release Date: May 20, 2008
Ranking: 1391
Studio: Doubleday









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From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a full-frontal Triple X novel that goes where no American work of fiction has gone before

Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera. With six hundred men. Snuff unfolds from the perspectives of Mr. 72, Mr. 137, and Mr. 600, who await their turn on camera in a very crowded green room. This wild, lethally funny, and thoroughly researched novel brings the huge yet underacknowledged presence of pornography in contemporary life into the realm of literary fiction at last. Who else but Chuck Palahniuk would dare do such a thing? Who else could do it so well, so unflinchingly, and with such an incendiary (you might say) climax?











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Average Buyer Rating:  out of 5 stars

Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - worth it if only for the made up porn movie titles
My view of this book is probably most influenced by the facts that 1) I took it out of the library- did not pay any $ for it and 2) it took about 2 hours to read


To me this book is worth reading, though it is my least favorite Palahniuk I have read. summation: Not worth buying but worth reading.

Read Invisible Monsters, Choke and Diary before picking this one up.









Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - don't read this if your a prude...
Hello, I have always been a Chuck Palahniuk lover and I'm probably one of the great few who read "Fight Club" before I saw the movie. If your a prude don't read this book. I'm not even done with it yet; I got it in the mail yesterday and I'm already half through. I love all his books and this is just one more. If you ever get the chance to meet him do it and DEFINITLEY stay for his reading-you never know what will come out of his mouth next.



Customer Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - More of the Same
Palahniuk is such an excellent writer, and there's so much to his work that's genius, but why is he trapped in doing the exact same thing everytime? And I'm the sucker who keeps buying the books, expecting that he'll finally break out of his self-created box.

But I keep being wrong. And so I get stuck reading "Diary," and then "Haunted," "Rant," and now "Snuff." To its credit, "Haunted was slightly better than the other three, and "Lullaby" was OK as well. But "Snuff," in my opinion, is his worst one. It's predictable, it's redundant, it's just trying to shock for the sake of shock.

What happened to his story-telling? What happened to the magic of books like "Fight Club" and "Invisible Monsters" and "Choke"? I don't care about any of the characters, or about anything that happens in the book. I read ahead to pick up the next obscene morsel of a mind feigning how demented it is because being demented sells books. For some reason people are drawn to things that shock, that no one else wants to talk about or mention or describe. But at some point, it all just becomes the mundane.

Ironically, Palahniuk is crossing the line into the mundane with every attempt to be sacreligious. That is, unless he hasn't already been there for the last few years.



Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Fantastic
I love Palahniuk books. But I can say, Haunted had some good short stories to it, as did Stranger than fiction. Both had perfect stories in them, complete, start to finish, work that would bring a smile to Amy Hampel's face. But this book, (Rant, not a big fan) was fantastic. Personally I don't like this multiview point stuff that books and movies are taking, but this book is nothing short of fantastic. The people are so clearly done, the story is hilarious. It's nothing life changing, but I don't think it's suppose to be. It's a great book to have, and you'll find yourself reading parts of it to friends who don't care to hear it.



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