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Snuff
by Chuck Palahniuk
by Chuck Palahniuk
Mike Philbin's review
Oct 02, 08
Recommended to Mike by:
my conscience
Recommended for:
fans of LULLABY and CHOKE
Read in September, 2008
SNUFF (Chuck Palahniuk) was a definite improvement over his last two book DIARY and HAUNTED, I loved LULLABY, SURVIVOR and CHOKE.
And SNUFF was often-times more laugh-out-loud funny than CHOKE and that's saying something. This book finally shows the maturing of Palahniuk's factual-anecdote-over-driving-storyline narrative style. He has gathered together some of the most bitter and twisted character in history into the basement of a 600-man-1-woman porn shoot. The right and only place for such Freudian shenanigins. It's really about being proud of who you are but it takes its own sweet (painful) time in getting there, truly tooth-grindingly painful.
With SNUFF he's assured his place in the How To Write Adult Soap hall of fame and in the future, all prime-time T.V. will look this way - N.W.O.'s continued intellectual oppression notwithstanding.
Long live literary creativity, Palahniuk has in bucketloads.
And SNUFF was often-times more laugh-out-loud funny than CHOKE and that's saying something. This book finally shows the maturing of Palahniuk's factual-anecdote-over-driving-storyline narrative style. He has gathered together some of the most bitter and twisted character in history into the basement of a 600-man-1-woman porn shoot. The right and only place for such Freudian shenanigins. It's really about being proud of who you are but it takes its own sweet (painful) time in getting there, truly tooth-grindingly painful.
With SNUFF he's assured his place in the How To Write Adult Soap hall of fame and in the future, all prime-time T.V. will look this way - N.W.O.'s continued intellectual oppression notwithstanding.
Long live literary creativity, Palahniuk has in bucketloads.
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*All* prime-time TV will look this way? Wow. I hope not. Certainly I'd be in favor of bumping "Dancing with the Stars" and "American Idol" with something more creatively ambitious. And some series have gone that way. "Dexter" is probably the most obvious example of ick-factor turned into (presumed) virtue.While I think cynicism is a good and healthy trait, IMO it's better tasted as salt than substance.
As I said in my review of "Choke," Chuck depresses me way too much for it to be all that funny.
Gerald.
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