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Snuff
by Chuck Palahniuk
2.5 stars.
It's been a while since I read a Chuck Palahniuk book, and for some reason I always forget about how crazy and gritty they are. I'd wanted to read this for a while, because... well come on, have you looked at the premise? A 600 man 1 woman porno to end all pornos? Seriously Chuck? Of course I had to see how his story would pan out!
The narrative of this book is interesting, involving four different characters: Mr 72, a young virginal boy who is desperate to meet the infamous Cassie Wright; Mr 137, a washed-up TV actor; Mr 600, a porn veteran; and Sheila, the talent-wrangler for the whole event. However, the narratives themselves were all quite similar in terms of style, and if not for the chapter headings with the characters' alternating names, I would only have had content alone to go on if I'd wanted to work out who was talking. Some of the characters had their quirks, but not all of them I liked. For example, Sheila had the tendency to overuse slang terms for the waiting men, which really irritated me as they just sounded stupid. However, I did enjoy her narrative, as well as that of Mr 137. In terms of characters, they were the most interesting to me.
There were moments in this book that really made me laugh inside. The various names of Cassie Wright's 'features' were always worth a good chuckle, punny names based around famous literary works most of the time. The writing was fast-paced and I never knew what was going to come next, which was a features of the book that I really liked. The ending, in true Palahniuk style, was grotesque and hard-hitting, whilst being bizarrely funny. Throughout the book, the sexual acts were depicted in fairly graphic detail, but of course that didn't bother me. If you find that kind of subject matter off-putting, well you probably wouldn't be reading it would you?
It's not my favourite Palahniuk book I've read; the plot and characters didn't really do enough for me to give it at least a 3 star 'good' rating, but it was definitely worth a read. If you're a Palahniuk fan, it's much of the same. Plus, it's been a while since I've had to try and hide the book I'm reading on public transport!
It's been a while since I read a Chuck Palahniuk book, and for some reason I always forget about how crazy and gritty they are. I'd wanted to read this for a while, because... well come on, have you looked at the premise? A 600 man 1 woman porno to end all pornos? Seriously Chuck? Of course I had to see how his story would pan out!
The narrative of this book is interesting, involving four different characters: Mr 72, a young virginal boy who is desperate to meet the infamous Cassie Wright; Mr 137, a washed-up TV actor; Mr 600, a porn veteran; and Sheila, the talent-wrangler for the whole event. However, the narratives themselves were all quite similar in terms of style, and if not for the chapter headings with the characters' alternating names, I would only have had content alone to go on if I'd wanted to work out who was talking. Some of the characters had their quirks, but not all of them I liked. For example, Sheila had the tendency to overuse slang terms for the waiting men, which really irritated me as they just sounded stupid. However, I did enjoy her narrative, as well as that of Mr 137. In terms of characters, they were the most interesting to me.
There were moments in this book that really made me laugh inside. The various names of Cassie Wright's 'features' were always worth a good chuckle, punny names based around famous literary works most of the time. The writing was fast-paced and I never knew what was going to come next, which was a features of the book that I really liked. The ending, in true Palahniuk style, was grotesque and hard-hitting, whilst being bizarrely funny. Throughout the book, the sexual acts were depicted in fairly graphic detail, but of course that didn't bother me. If you find that kind of subject matter off-putting, well you probably wouldn't be reading it would you?
It's not my favourite Palahniuk book I've read; the plot and characters didn't really do enough for me to give it at least a 3 star 'good' rating, but it was definitely worth a read. If you're a Palahniuk fan, it's much of the same. Plus, it's been a while since I've had to try and hide the book I'm reading on public transport!