Snuffed Out
I just finished reading Chuck Palahniuk's "Snuff", a gritty gross look into the porn industry. The novel was a quick read, told through the eyes of four separate characters, all of them persons present at a marathon porn shoot. The story follows three men who have signed up to partake in a porno where the lead actress couples with 600 partners in one sitting. The fourth character is the "talent wrangler" at the event, a cold women who takes bribes from the haplessly eager slobs waiting in the basement of some studio for their number to be called.
The story was full of Chuck's usual sick realism. His ability to tear open the veil that covers all of the things we pretend we don't want to know about, but actually secretly yearn to learn move. All of the characters have their own motivations for being involved with such a twisted situation, which lets the reader get into the story from a number of angles.
This was a good read, but as with most of Palahniuk's writing, you might want to have a solid stomach before taking this one on.
The story was full of Chuck's usual sick realism. His ability to tear open the veil that covers all of the things we pretend we don't want to know about, but actually secretly yearn to learn move. All of the characters have their own motivations for being involved with such a twisted situation, which lets the reader get into the story from a number of angles.
This was a good read, but as with most of Palahniuk's writing, you might want to have a solid stomach before taking this one on.

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