before readingI'm presuming that this will be enough of a departure from Against the Day that it will help me remember how to read regular books. (Also noted: the print is really big. Odd.)after readingOk I'm really sorry to say this, but this book blew. I suppose that given the subject matter, that's kind of a double entendre, but fuck it. Actually, you know what? That's about as hard as it seems Palahniuk tried to make this book any good. It was like some college student aping Palahniuk for a

(Today's review is much longer than Goodreads' word-count limit; find the entire essay at the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)As I'm sure a certain amount of CCLaP's readers are already aware, there's a new type of pornography that's become more and more popular within the last half-decade now, a type that I'm positive will eventually say more about th...

Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/ “Six hundred dudes. One porn queen. A world record for the ages. A must-have movie for every discerning collector of things erotic. Didn’t one of us on purpose set out to make a snuff movie.” You’re probably reading a Chuck Palahniuk sex story.The premise of Snuff is simple enough – a world record is about to broken. This is the story of a day in the life of 600 dudes, including an aging porn star . . . a boy with a secret ....

I'm not gonna beat around the bush. Snuff is as enjoyable as a wet fart in a hot shower. This is also the book that started Palahniuk's dive into mediocrity and self parody. Pygmy is the deepest depth to which Chuck sank before grabbing the life preserver that was Damned, at least in my opinion. I know people still think he hasn't written a good book since Diary, but I thought his romp in Hell was big fun.This is my second time reading this one, and I only gave it another chance because a) I had...

I absolutely enjoyed this book. I just came off of reading "Rant" with my Composition 2 students, and I had one student object (quietly, coming to me during office hours to do so) to reading it because it goes against everything she believes in (which is following the word of God and ridding the world of moral filth. Her words, not mine). So of course I respected her position, gave her a new assignment, and kept on trucking with the rest of the class. Her comments did, however, give me pause as

Read in an attempt to understand. Wasn't successful.

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...

I love Chuck P. But it's clear that his work has been on a steadily downward trajectory. Some think he peaked with Flight Club, arguably his best. I love many of his later works including one of my Favorite books of all time, Survivor, and I adore Choke, Haunted, the original version of Invisible Monsters and Stranger Than Fiction. I didn't enjoy Diary and if I have the chronology right, stopped there.A GR friend reviewed this and it made me nostalgic for the twisted one (Palahniuk, not the GR f...

I feel icky.Chuck Palahniuk's take on the porn industry blows wades of sex euphemisms all over the reader like moneyshots at a gangbang. The language is as base as the subject matter. The characters have all the nuance of a cookie cutter. The plot, slightly more complicated than the old school "I've come to fix the pool" porn of yesteryear, is nonetheless as formulaic as a whodunit mystery. And yes, all this works in the author's favor. He is, after all, writing about porn.Is this titillation pu...

What do we really know about the people who have sex on film? Do we really want to know anything about them? Or are they just 'there' to perform for us - there for us to 'loop' back to the particular act and actor that fufills our desire - then forgotten till the need arises in us again to become intimate with the objectification of our own emptiness. Warning: extreamly graphic adult material.

This was too filthy, even by my standards. But somehow, the copy I have was signed by Chuck Palahniuk so it is a book I will never get rid of.

Uproarious and absurd, the last time I read Palahniuk was fifteen years ago. Choke was were I stopped. after being obsessed with Fight club in my high school formative years. Then, it seemed to me like there was an influx of never-readers only-reading him. And he's shocking, oftentimes just for the value of that shock. His characters are all second rate, more id than hollow shells. They are radical, and, well, ABSOLUTELY TWO (1?) DIMENSIONAL. If we're lucky.Yet I was pretty involved with SNUFF.

I think everyone knows what 'snuff' means, right?It is not Mr. P's best book but it's still mightily entertaining and it gives us a better understanding on the creation and history of porn, it's a fun read. I own this book and I wish to re-read it ASAP.a review which lists the funny *fake* titles of porn. Wow, 'The Postman Always Cums Twice'? Really? https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

This is the second worst book I have ever read. I don't know if I can say I've even read it because I just cannot bring myself to finish it. This guy has no concept on how to write a good sentence. Not one good sentence. Pick a page, then put your finger on a word. It will all be stupid and bad. A friend of mine paid $30 to take me to hear him speak, and this is how I wound up with a signed copy of this book. Everybody in his cult following crowd was young and ultra hip, and obviously has really...

It’s definitely a Chuck Palahnuik book lol

So far it's not the sex that's making me queasy and itchy as much as the gleefully elaborate descriptions of all the various stains, smears, smudges, dribbles, crumbs and residues that the characters in this book seem to leave on every surface that they come into contact with. Chuck is smart enough to realize that he probably isn't going to shock any of his loyal readers (or anyone who has ever watched a porno) with endless mechanical details, so instead he concentrates on making everything so d...

Snuff is not for everybody. Those who have never read a Chuck Palahniuk novel will probably not enjoy the story or the way it is presented while others may be drawn to the subject matter alone. "Six hundred dudes. One porn queen. A world record for the ages." Come on, it's about porn! Palahniuk fans will certainly enjoy this short tirade that seems more like a novella than an actual novel. Snuff is Chuck's shortest novel to date. Fact. Every single letter is in brown ink! Fact. It certainly does...

I picked this one up, having loved Fight Club and wondering whether Chuck Palahniuk would turn out to be a one-book wonder.The blurb implies that the story will be about the porn industry. Cassie Wright, pornstar is out to set a record by having continuous sex with 600 different men on camera. The story shifts between the vantage views of three of the men crowded into that green room - Nos.37, 137 and 600 as well as Sheila, the assistant/wrangler who decides who goes in what order.Sex, such an i...

A still bankable pornstar slowly inching past her prime goes for one last shot at fame. She's got 600 guys primed to run a train on her in a magnum opus that will decidedly break smut records, aptly entitled World Whore Three: The Whore To End All Whores. If she's going out, she's gonna do so with a (gang)bang. And in a production of this scale with so much hanging in the balance, can murder be far behind? The reasonable answer to that is "prolly not", but this is a bonkers Palahniuk book, so ye...

Five stars, because it gives you everything you'd want in a Palahniuk book. No child is left behind. Think of this book as...as the Oedipus myth, filtered through the worldview of Philip Larkin and the grossout slapstick of Jackass.---What the hell is with the brown ink?! Were they out of...out of lemon juice?! I'm sorry, but this is an annoyance on par with the invisotext (click and roll cursor to highlight the spoilers!) that was all the rage in...in your livejournal blog circa 2002. The book