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Snuff

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Snuff

by Chuck Palahniuk

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | May 20, 2008 | Hardcover

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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    Rating: 3/5

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    Graham Stevens

    11 months ago

    Mildly humorous and entertaining .. good quick read ... not a whole lot of substance to this one...

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    Rating: 3/5

    Re: The Annabel Chong Story

    Chihoe Ho

    • Indigo Employee

    2 years ago

    A porn star attempts to break a world record by fornicating with 600 men in a porn film. Told largely from the perspective of three participants, all whom have a relation with the porn star, Chuck Palahniuk weaves a twisted story of satire, porn and crime, sprinkling it with pop culture tidbits. Caution, language and content is definitely not for all. Seriously, I didn't know there were so many ways to describe a wanker (i.e. sock-soaker, bone-beater, pud-pullers, ham-whammers, et cetera)!

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    Rating: 3/5

    Makes you Laugh and Cringe (at the same time)

    Mya

    3 years ago

    This book is funny but it changes perspectives a lot and is hard to read sometimes. Closer to the end I found myself re-reading because it got confusing. However, I do plan to read more of Chuck Palahniuk's novels. He has some interesting ideas.

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    Rating: 4/5

    Really Funny, But A Bit Too Much Porn

    Lu-Anna Banana

    3 years ago

    I thought the book was pretty good.
    Quite funny, but a little too confusing at times.
    The crazy twist in the end really caught me by surprise.
    Not one of his best novels, but deffiently one to check out.
    =]

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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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" CHUCK PALAHNIUK is the likeliest inheritor of Vonnegut's place in American writing." -San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

About the Author

Chuck Palahniuk's eight previous novels are the bestselling Rant, Haunted, Lullaby, Diary, Choke-which was made into a 2008 film by director Clark Gregg, starring Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston-Survivor, Invisible Monsters, and Fight Club, which was made into a film by director David Fincher. He is also the author of the nonfiction profile of Portland, Oregon, Fugitives and Refugees, published as part of the Crown Journeys series, and the nonfiction collection Stranger Than Fiction. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

Hardcover

208 Pages, 5.8 x 8.5 x 0.85 in

May 20, 2008

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

English


0385517882
9780385517881

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" CHUCK PALAHNIUK is the likeliest inheritor of Vonnegut''s place in American writing." -San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

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