Product Description

From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a novel about a porn queen's attempt to break the world's record for consecutive acts of sexual intercourse on film. Or die trying...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #477831 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 208 pages

Herald, Doug Johnstone
'... confirms Palahniuk once again as a compelling, daring and vital writer.'

Esquire, Mark Lawson
'...if he set out to see if a novel could still shock, Palahniuk has succeeded'

Review
`memorably revolting'

Customer Reviews

Three things to know before buying
1. This is a very short novella (the text is printed in big type to make for more pages), you'll read it in an hour or so.

2. Once the paper seal is removed the book cover is pornographic. You won't be able to read this on the train, in the office, or whilst your children are around.

3. The 'story' doesn't even start to measure up to the author's earlier stuff. In comparison to books like Invisible Monsters or Survivor this book is very, very weak. There are no skewed ideas to play with, or off the wall revelations to ponder. Even without comparison to earlier books the principles of this short story are 10 years too late to be edgy.

Very disappointing all-round.

Deja Voyeur
Save time reading this book, and read Kevin Bisch's article "The Gang's All Here" in Salon online. It's basically the exact same story, except good. Better novels about porn are probably Irvine Welsh's "Porno" or "The Pornographer-General" F.U. Stein.

Disappointed
Chuck Palahniuk is my favourite writer, I have all his books and love them, so when 'Snuff' was finally released in UK I had to buy it straight away. I read it all in one night over a few hours and was so disappointed by it. Usually when I read one of his books I'm left thinking about it for hours, and just "wow" about what I've just read, but this, I doubt I'll read it again.

Some aspects of it were interesting, and well written, but overall, the story just lacks something. When it ends you're left feeling "is that it?".

So, to anyone thinking of reading some of Palahniuk's work, don't read 'Snuff' first, go for 'Survivor', 'Invisible Monsters' or 'Fight Club'; all masterpieces that will deffinately please you.