Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Snuff
Book Review: It's like I'm really a teenager
Summary: 2 Stars
Sparing you the summary the product description and myriad reviews offer, Snuff comes across as a desperate attempt to sell mind-numbing filth to a target audience of teenagers whose parents are fooled by the idea that Palahniuk's written literature is at all comparable to the censored version of Fight Club that airs on USA.
When I read Snuff, I imagined I was sixteen and discovering my own perversion of existentialism for the first time. This book is a gift you give to your child when he graduates from watching professional wrestling into the pseudo-intellectualism which punctuates the society of young people who won't read geeky fantasy novels.
This book will appeal to you if you don't read enough to know a cliché when you see one.
Book Review: It's not fight club
Summary: 3 Stars
It's a great concept and parts of it are really well done, but at the end, it sort of is like saying to yourself "wow, it could have been better if....."Book Review: Kinda boring
Summary: 2 Stars
After reading the synopsis, boring was the last thing I expected this book to be. I picked it up at the airport because it sounded interesting.
The plot twist that Mr. Palahniuk I've heard is known for, probably sounded really good when he first thought them up, but they just didn't deliver. I think it could have been much better.
Also, this book was tough to read. Conversations between characters could be in quotes in one sentence, then the next sentence, the converstion was in the character's first person's thoughts, in their "uneducated" english. I'm sure the author did this on purpose however I didn't enjoy it.
The first 10-20 euphamisms for male masturbation was funny, then it stopped being funny, just became repetitive and boring, and the same was true of the porn movie names.
I did find some of the hollywood trivia scattered thoughout the book interesting.
Book Review: Light, Breezy, Adult Entertainment
Summary: 4 Stars
The pink book jacket and brown lettering let you know immediately that this is not your usual Palahniuk book. At just under 200 pages, "Snuff" is Chuck Palahniuk's shortest novel. It's more focused than his previous works, and, instead of being "darkly funny," ends up being just plain funny--think David Sedaris or Augusten Burroughs. The subject matter--the adult film industry--is mined here for most of the comedy beats, although the details aren't as graphic or sexual as you might expect for such a risque topic. (There are better books about the industry anyway, such as Jenna Jameson's enthralling How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale.) If you're looking for a light, fun summer read, though, "Snuff" will suffice.Book Review: Maybe it is time for CP to take a break and recharge the battery...
Summary: 2 Stars
... I'm a fan, but after "Diary" and "Haunted" I was just starting to loose faith. "Rant" blew me away, and I was really looking forward to "Snuff."
I'm glad I checked it out from the library. While there are moments of Chuck's twisted brilliance in here (the "money shot" of the book, so to speak), the whole thing just read like a cookie-cutter assemblage of his past work. The info bites have really worn thin. Characters in this novel just don't speak in individual voices. I know, I'm not a published author and CP is, but I know enough about writing and have read enough books to know when an author is coasting. Seriously, if CP spent more than a week writing this novella jacked up to novel prices, I'd be shocked.
Having said that, I will read his next book, hoping for something that shines like "Rant" did (for me at least it was a return to the brilliance of Survivor). But I'll definitely be checking it out of the library.