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Tarfumes.com - Snuff
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Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385517881
ISBN: 0385517882
Label: Doubleday
Manufacturer: Doubleday
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 2008-05-20
Publisher: Doubleday
Release Date: 2008-05-20
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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Summary: SEX SELLS
Comment: Let's face it: sex sells. That's the reason Cassie, the porn queen in SNUFF, is making a film wherein she tries to "shag" 600 guys in order to break a record. It's also the reason I bought the book. Well, that and the fact that I enjoy Palahniuk's dark humor as a guilty pleasure like a good episode of Melrose Place - The Third Season. With that said, I was pleasantly surprised by the way the novel played out. The novel wasn't about the 600 men - er, shagging--the porn queen. It was primarily about a handful of the 600 guys in the waiting room, their connections to Cassie, and their desire to be something/someone better than who they are at that very moment. Furthermore, as the novel progressed, each chapter was told from a different person's point of view. It was a bit of a challenge at first to keep everyone straight (especially since the guys were known only as their number in line), but once you got into the story more and could distinguish each character, it became interesting and intriguing.
SNUFF also gave me some insight into the porn industry, including terms, and I thank Palahniuk for the research he did. More than that, I see somebody must have gotten Palahniuk The Big Book of Filth: 6500 Sex Slang Words and Phrases for his birthday one year. He scattered every word he could for masturbation throughout the entire book.
To sum up my brief book review, I was entertained reading SNUFF. It was a quick, enjoyable read (for those not faint-of-heart) on my flights to and from Vegas and I loved the crazy twist ending. It made me giggle as only someone with an equally sick sense of humor could. SNUFF definitely came from the same mind as the novel Invisible Monsters and the short story "Guts" (featured in Haunted: A Novel). I'd recommend it if you're looking for something "light" yet heavy with dark humor.
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Summary: Not Palaniuk's best work, but a good novel
Comment: An avid reader of Chuck Palahniuk's work, I read Snuff very nearly as soon as it came out and am pleased, but certainly not overwhelmed. I feel his best works are Survivor and Choke, and that Snuff fails to even live up to the greatness of his more recent work like Lullaby.
It's good and has some writing remiscient of his Guts chapter that was made so famous by its inclusion in Playboy and for his readings having people fainting and it's filled with the same interesting side stories and anecdotes, but it fails to execute itself as well as his previous work.
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Summary: worth it if only for the made up porn movie titles
Comment: 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.
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Summary: don't read this if your a prude...
Comment: 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.
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Summary: More of the Same
Comment: 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.
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