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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage (2 July 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0099499371
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099499374
  • Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 1.4 x 19.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
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"It's glorious, gloriously depraved. Gloriously funny, gloriously heartbreaking and gloriously outrageous, just what you might expect from a writer continually pushing at the boundaries of literature...confirms Palahniuk once again as a compelling, daring and vital writer" (Herald)

"Every bit as dangerous as it sounds... Snuff is a deliciously disturbing, superbly paced and graphically obnoxious read" (Maxim)

"Snuff is a Chernobyl of taboos...Palahniuk investigates his novels for months before he begins to write, so they always have a journalistic reek of authenticity and immediacy: he is like Tom Wolfe on acid... Think of it as The Bonfire of the Inanities. Once you have come down and mopped up the vomit, you will be glad you snorted this particular Snuff" (Independent)

"You'll bite your pillow laughing" (Arena)

"Palahniuk is a deeply talented and original satirist...a class act of characterisation and situation comedy, wrapped up in something much more important" (Daily Mirror)

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1.0 out of 5 starsQuite Possibly The Biggest Literary Disappointment Of My Reading Life
By IDGS on 20 Nov. 2010
Format: Hardcover
I honestly find myself at a loss for words having just completed Snuff.

From someone so brilliant to have written the likes of Survivor and Fight Club, comes.. well, this.

This book reads like a Wikipedia article collection, written by thirteen year old boys still searching for the perfect way to describe someone who masturbates. The incessant factoids about porn, Marilyn Monroe, condoms, the gay community, and cyanide could possibly the the most boring, ineffectual and downright idiotic thing I've read in my entire life.

The description is enticing, but this book downright fails to deliver. Chuck insists on creating as many stupid porn titles as he possibly can, sounding like a rehersal for a Saturday Night Live skit before airing, minus any of the humour. The first couple gain a small chuckle, the rest leave you shaking your head. If I had to read one more name for someone who masturbates, I would have thrown the book across the room - had the hardcover novella deceptively marketed as a full novel not cost an arm and a leg.

The plot is unremarkable in every way, the characters utterly unlikeable and unrelatable. Words are repeated, and I feel sorry for whoever edited this 'work' - they're likely out of a job, from all the akward sentences.

You could see the ending of this novel - minus a small 'twist' in the form of the reality in which the two characters will now have to live - coming from a mile away, though they drag it out through disjointed style that forces you to pick it all apart.

If I have anything positive at all to say about this work - the cover is intriguing. Brings back the Linda Lovelace train of thought.

Here's to hoping Palahniuk delivers something worth reading sooner than later.
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3.0 out of 5 starsA distinctly average offering.
By C. Paknadel on 1 Jan. 2015
Format: Paperback
I listened to an audiobook of this. I was a huge fan, like many others, of Palahniuk's first five novels, but I don't keep so up to date on him these days. I'm giving Snuff three stars simply because I did listen to the whole audiobook in one day, I did find it compelling enough to want to continue.

I fear that Palahniuk is a gimmicky writer, and once you're used to the gimmicks, they just don't hit the mark any more. They don't feel natural, they feel like stickers that he puts onto his work. Number 172's repetition of "wouldn't you know it". The parade of poor taste adult film titles. The misdirects. And ultimately what it comes down to is this: Snuff is a static novel. Nothing happens in it, and 90% of the chapters take place in the same setting, the rest are flashbacks. I won't say it was predictable, but when the twists did come, I found myself uncaring. And don't get me wrong, I am a fan of uncathartic, meaningless fiction (my favourite novel is American Psycho). But Snuff was just...a damp squib of a story. You learn nothing, nobody grows or changes, and nothing happens. Any of those three things can be used effectively, but to use all three together I don't think was a good idea. Survivor, Invisible Monsters, Choke; these novels actually moved me in some way. I connected with some aspect of them. There's no one to care about, even remotely, in Snuff. There's no discernible moral. There's no twist so unexpected as to make you sit up straight and rethink everything that's come before. It's simply okay, if you already like Palahniuk. If you're alright with every character sounding the same, apart from a token verbal tic like "wouldn't ya know it".Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsthe darker side of life
By T-bone on 22 Sept. 2008
Format: Hardcover
One thing I will say about Palahniuk is that he manages to write in such a way that you can smell the unwashed bodies, the urine smell from the toilet, the buffet table laden with crisps and sweets and the body odour of the 600 assembled men. Basically, he manages to write in such a way that you feel slightly grimy by the time you finish one of his books.
Don't get me wrong, this is definitely a skill, but I felt that the voices of the 4 characters (72, 137, 600 and sheila) were all a little too similar.
In some ways I was dissapointed in this book - the characters just seemd to be lacking something, and it seemed that the author set out to try and shock more than to tell a story.
On the other hand, I did sit and read the whle thing in one go - although that was not too hard as this is quite a short novel.
I do not think this book will win Palahniuk too many new fans, although I could see teens who ahve not encountered this kind of book before enjoying it, and I think longterm fans will enjoy the book. It is definitely very inkeeping with Palahniuks "style" of writing, but it is not my favourite of his books.
It is trickey, as on the one hand it is a very evocative work, but on the other hand, it was not as good as some of his other things.
As one person pointed out, the cover does feature a pair of breasts, but as with the rest of this book, there is nothing erotic about the image, or in the story itself - in fact if anything, this book is a pretty good antidote to feeling frisky.
If you are a fan I would give this book a try, if you want to buy a young adult something "edgy" it may be worth a go, but if you are new to this author I think you would be better starting off with Fight Club.
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The book came kinda slowly. It was exactly what I wanted, and was worth what it cost, and was extremely useful!

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3.0 out of 5 starsWas ok.

Not that great a read, but short enough to press on through with.

Can't even remember the ending, enough said.

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This was a gift for a passionate reader. He had supplied the book list and Amazon was the site with the best bargain and right price.

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