Snuff
by Chuck Palahniuk
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Author: Chuck PalahniukEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-05-20
ISBN: 0385517882
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Doubleday
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Book Review: "Rant" spoiled it for me
Summary: 2 Stars
Here's the main thing about this book (for me at least); it came out at a horrible time in this author's career. If Palahniuk might've released this a couple years ago, I might've really enjoyed it and gotten into it a lot more. Unfortunately, his previous novel "Rant" was my favorite book by Chuck (neck in neck with Haunted, but Rant just did it for me) and one of my favorites of all time. It's just tough to top something so extraordinary.
Snuff lacked the social allusions that many of his other novels are filled with. Rant makes you think about the tooth fairy, easter bunny, and santa now as being complete lies, each one step further than the other in making us believe things so out of reality. Haunted preyed upon human weakness and emotion, and Survivor alluded to corporate America and how it can destroy someone so quickly (obviously there are many other themes at work, these were just some I remembered off the top of my head). Snuff however, really never went anywhere with the whole porn theme. Palahniuk may have touched on the things people do to look beautiful, but (to me) that just seems lacking on some great points he brought across in previous works.
Finally, Palahniuk may be one of the only authors I've read where I actually have had to put a book down for a second because of the extreme squeamish/disturbing content (ie: ALL OF HAUNTED, or the plastic surgery part in Invisible monsters). When I hear a book about a girl "doing" 600 guys, I'm thinking he might've gone too far. Except nothing 'that bad' really happens. Sure there's bizarre acts and a rather humorous ending, but it was just lacking.
Again, I wish Palahniuk would've flip-flopped this and Rant. Rant seems like an obliterated mess of interviews about this 'larger-than-life' superhero of a redneck boy, his adventures of getting high off bug bites, a rabies infection, and party crashing, a new sport. Rant then completely knocked me out of my socks when it reveals it's greater 'meaning'. Snuff didn't do any of that for me.
Palahniuk is a phenomenal author, and every author can't produce A+ books every time. It's alright, I still love you Chuck and I'd still recommend this book. It's just not up to par with some of his previous works.
PS. This is my review and the world is a big place with differing opinions.
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