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Snuff [Hardcover]

Chuck Palahniuk
3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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Book Description

May 20 2008
“Six hundred dudes. One porn queen. A world record for the ages. A must-have movie for every discerning collector of things erotic.”

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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Palahniuk delivers another entertaining and cynical social commentary on American materialism and gluttony. In her final pornographic performance, Cassie Wright has decided to be on the receiving end of a 600-man gangbang. Neither Cassie nor the men waiting for their chance with her expect her to survive. But some of the men have very different ideas about what this encounter will mean for them in their personal and professional lives. Todd McLaren does an excellent job voicing the many different first-person accounts. Whether reading the accounts of Cassie's assistant, an aging stud or the Cassie's presumptive abandoned son, McLaren finds a complementary voice for each and keeps them consistent throughout. Given the raunchy discussions of sex and the sinister elements that are often associated with the porn industry, McLaren's gritty voice adds the needed edge to this seedy but interesting novel. A Doubleday hardcover (Reviews, Feb. 11). (May)
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Review

“Often biting, often hilarious, often awful, but always compelling . . . It’s ludicrous, of course, but that’s the point.”
Los Angeles Times

“An absurd dark comedy about damaged people.”
The Seattle Times

“In Snuff, [Palahniuk] does a masterful job of putting all of our excesses, phobias, and neuroses on full display.”
San Francisco Chronicle

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14 of 18 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Chuck's pendulum swings. Sep 30 2008
Format:Hardcover
I am a big fan of Chuck. I think his non fiction is outstanding (see Stranger Than Fiction) and the majority of his fiction is breakthrough and astounding. Chuck is a pendulum though and while many of his books will be classics in a generation or so, this is not one of them. This book is a poorly executed, shocking idea that, in the end, seems to exist for no other reason than for the press and attention that is inherent when a popular writer takes on a sensitive subject. It could have been more insightful. It could have been more probing. It could have been more.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The Hilarious World of Porn According To Chuck Mar 6 2010
Format:Hardcover
A darkly comic tale about porn and its stars. One of Palahniuk`s best to date.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Chuck, Now on porn. Dec 30 2009
Format:Paperback
To enjoy snuff you have to be a fan of movies. Knowing the movie industry at least superficially you get the feeling that the point of snuff is to point out that all actors do horrible things to themselves, that the only difference between Star and Porn Star is the amount of on screen nudity.
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