About this title: Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. This wild, lethally funny novel unfolds from the perspectives of various men who await their turn on camera.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 2008-05-20
ISBN-13:9780385517881ISBN:0385517882
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Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780385517881ISBN:0385517882
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 2008-05-20
ISBN-13:9780385517881ISBN:0385517882
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Anchor Books
Date Published: 2009-04-07
ISBN-13:9780307275844ISBN:0307275841
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor
Date Published: 2009
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780224082464ISBN:0224082469
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Edition: Stated First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, New York
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780385517881ISBN:0385517882
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"As a long-time Palahniuk fan I was looking forward to this title. It has the trademark Palahniuk style and humor, but it seems like this was a story idea more suited to short-story length, at most a novella, and not a full-length novel.
In other novels Chuck goes on interesting, sometimes only tangentially-related detours, but they always add color and depth to what's going on, and I missed that in this book. The better locked-room' scenario is his other novel Haunted, which is a meatier, more interesting read.
Which is not to say the book isn't enjoyable -- there are lots of great Palahniuk moments throughout the next, just not enough to satisfy this fan."
"After his previous two novels, I remember going off on this whole rant (no pun intended) about how Chuck's like an Alkaline Trio record, or a David Lynch movie. You know you're gonna entertain it's existence, you know it will have a handful of one-liners, but you know its going to be jusssst like all the rest and nothing special. So then you ask the age-old question, "Is it better if one of your favourite bands keeps making the same music for 15 years and bores you, or takes the chance and changes their sound?!"
Well, I had already decided that it was time for Chuck to change his sound. Cute, but boring. Everything sounds the same. Insert Mulholland Drive and hit repeat. It seems like Mr. Palahniuk got the hint and agreed. So he changed it up a bit.. and it blows. Justine's right, it just doesn't have the same bite WITHOUT his stereotypical tricks and catches. It reads like a WANNABE Chuck Palahniuk. And seeing how Chuck has always read like a wannabe-Vonnegut, that doesn't say much.
Sorry Chuck, while I'll always rock out to your classics, you won't be finding me around your new release rack any more. Matt Skiba can tell you all about it!"
"I refuse to spend more time reviewing this book than Palahniuk spent writing it (which couldn't have been very much), so I'll be brief. Snuff takes place entirely in the green room of a porno movie. Cassie Wright is an aging porn star who is trying to set a world record for having sex with 600 dudes in one film, an act that everyone seems to think will kill her. Cassie thinks this too, but that appears to be the whole point. She's hoping that if she dies trying to break the record, then the film will go gangbusters and make a ton of money, money which she will then leave to the child she abandoned eighteen years prior. A whole mess of creepy men answer the casting call to help Cassie make history, and the story is told from the point-of-view of three of those dudes: Mr. 600, a professional porn star and the man who got Cassie started in the business; Mr. 137, a washed-up television star who somehow thinks doing this will resuscitate his failing career; and Mr. 72, who - as messed up as this sounds - believes he is Cassie's son. And if this all sounds like a great big ol' wet, hot mess, then that's because it is.
I'm honestly not really sure what Palahniuk was trying to accomplish with this book. If I were feeling kind, I'd suggest that Snuff was a failed attempt at making some sort of larger critical commentary on the porn industry; however, I'm not feeling kind, so instead I'll suggest that Snuff is the product of a shocking author who has run out of ways to try and shock us. Trouble is, despite the subject matter, it's not particularly shocking at all. Instead, it's lazily written, pointless and boring.
In short, I absolutely hated this book. If it had a face, I would have punched it in it."
"Disappointing effort from one of my former favorite authors. Chuck has really let himself fall into a rut, I think - his writing has become so formulaic that his stories, however interesting they seem on face value, have really started to lose their appeal for me.
Snuff is about a porn queen in the twilight of her career attempting to set a world record by having sex with 600 men in a single film. Gets your attention, right? But then you actually read the book, and after the fourth or fifth or sixth time you see the same imagery, the same point beaten down with a hammer, and after the third or fourth abrupt and oddly convenient plot twist, the plot really looses its glitter. About the only really positive thing about the book is that he certainly didn't belabor the point - it stacks up at about 200 pages, and is probably really much shorter than that as its printed in what seems like an awfully large font.
What's truly disappointing about this book is that it has so much potential to be so much better than it is - the plot, though dull in the telling, has enough complexity to be really engrossing. The environment, the people, the entire situation are just quirky and ridiculous enough to create his trademark literary universe: grounded in reality, but only just. It seems like Chuck rushed on it, forced himself to produce it quickly, and in doing so he really neglected all of the things that could have made it great. If he'd fleshed out the character's backstory more, if he'd extended the timeline a bit, if he'd switched up the descriptive prose instead of using the same set of imagery over and over again, if he'd even spent some time telling the story from Cassie's point of view (an omission that seems to have carried over from Rant, his previous release) this could have been a much better book. As it is, its only passable, and certainly not worth the $25 I spent on it.
I've read just about everything that Chuck has written at this point, and have always waited eagerly for his new novels and bought them within days of their release, but next time I might need to take a pass. He's really going to have to shake things up next time around to win back my previously unfailing devotion."
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