Snuff | Chuck Palahniuk | don't read this if your a prude...

Snuff | Chuck Palahniuk | SEX SELLS

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Snuff

	Snuff Chuck Palahniuk Doubleday, 2008 - 208 pages average customer review:based on 95 reviews view larger image
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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.

SEX SELLS

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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Not Palaniuk's best work, but a good novel

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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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.

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