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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780979988462
ISBN number: 0979988462
Label: Blu Phi'er Publishing
Manufacturer: Blu Phi'er Publishing
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 188
Printing Date: May 17, 2008
Publishing house: Blu Phi'er Publishing
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Eric Enck, author of TELL ME YOUR NAME, THE RECKONING and GHOST OF A CHANCE and Adam Huber, Journalist for a top selling Newspaper bring you the ultimate horror novel. When an out of work movie actor and a pornographer band together to create 'Snuff' films, things look great. The money is rolling in, despite the death count. Both men begin a vicious killing spree in their films as more and more people are demanding the best in bloody porn. When the mafia becomes involved, things couldn't be better, until one of the victims turns out to have a father more disturbing than any killer out there. Soon, the tables are turned on the filmakers as a dangerous game of cat and mouse ensues. This is a brutal novel. It's already being called one of the most disturbing efforts is literature and is being advised to come with a WARNING: label.
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The only explanation i find to the high-rated reviews from Amazon customers to this novel, is that all those reviews are from friends or relatives of the authors. I wanted to take a taste of the so-called "splatterpunk" genre, so i picked Snuff along with Off-Season (from Jack Ketchum) and Survivor (from J. F. Gonzalez). Snuff is, by a long shot, the weakest of the three (Off-Season is a GREAT novel, and Survivor, despite an implausible plot, is good entertainment). Snuff is only a gratuitous exercise in extremity without any plot or character development. And without three dimensional characters to worry for, the reader (this is me) is not immersed into the action, he distances from it. So in the end, all the gore and ultraviolence in the book (and there is plenty of it) is seen only as a formula. You read about tortures, mutilations, rapes and so on, and you simply are not affected by it; there is no suspense, no sense of dread, no nothing. As i said, this is because neither the torturers nor the victims are characters with any depth, but only one-dimensional carton-cuts full of cliché. The violence in Snuff is like the violence in a horror videogame, or in a Rambo movie, or even in some South Park episodes ("¡Oh, look, they killed Kenny!"): you can recognize that it is extreme, but you don't feel disturbed at all. So in essence, and due to the authors painful effort to disgust and shock the reader page after page, Snuff can only be seen as a colossal failure. Also, the style of writing lefts much to be desired, being nothing more than an amateurish carbon copy of what Brett Easton Ellis did brilliantly in American Psycho (in fact, Patrick Bateman, the killer from American Psycho, is even cited once in Snuff; at least the authors are honest enough to admit who they are ripping from). And last, but not least, the plot has some serious holes, and relies heavily on a bunch of coincidences so weird, so bizarre, so hard to swallow, that they are absolutely laughable. To sum up, stay away from Snuff. Not because it is extreme literature, but because it is extremely crappy literature.
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judging by the reviews i read i expected a well detailed tale of brutal sexual sadism. I should have known better when some are referring to the fact that this book "lives up to the best of Ketchum". that is not much of standard when one seeks detail. the ususal disappointment of a detail here and there but for the most part glossed over viloence. if i know what i know now i would never have bought it.
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This book was as horrifying as I expected it to be. Other than that, there isn't much to it. The character development was basically non-existent. The story itself was predictable and served as a weak net to support the ongoing gore and brutality of the book. If you want to read a book for shock value, I recommend it. If you want a good story, I would skip it. Unfortunately the thing that stands out the most to me were the misspelled words littered throughout.
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We all lead a normal, sheltered life. Half the time, we all leave the roost without experiencing anything traumatic. But what if something in your past changed you, and not for the good? What if something from your childhood made you want to horrifically abuse, brutally rape and then violently murder people?
Our story is SNUFF, a story of perversion, torture and terror from Eric Enck, a renowned small press author who`s developed a somewhat-cult-like following, and Adam Huber, a newspaper writer (SNUFF being his very first `professional' venture into fiction writing.)
What is SNUFF about?
We meet our main character, Jack, right at the beginning of the story, and it isn't long after that we're introduced to his twisted sexual desires. See, Jack's the kind of guy who wants to meet a pretty girl, get her in bed, and get off. But he's also the kind of guy who wants to commit brutal acts of torture, most of the time including sodomy, bloodletting and bondage (and for a fair note, this is when Jack ISN'T being creative.)
Our second character, Mikey, is an amateur pornographer. He films people having sex. Cool, right? Well, he's about to become more than an `amateur' when Jack steps into the picture, and not in a good way either.
The nature behind SNUFF of that is brutal torture, but it's also a very real happening. Snuff, films where people are raped and murdered, is very real, and happens all over the world. Enck and Huber take you into a world we don't normally see, and we're taken there in a no-bars, in-your-face way. The sexually-perverse encounters are real, and the torture will make you squirm.
But see, the thing about SNUFF's characters is that they're real. Jack is hurting people because he believes they should be hurt, because, having dealt with a childhood of abuse himself, he's tampered to feel this way. Nothing gets in his path, and nothing will stop him. And Mikey's pornography fuels his way of lifestyle, keeping him alive. Everything about SNUFF is believable, right down to the individual scenarios outside of the torture (dealing with 'clients,' certain reactions from some of the clients, abductions and robberies.)
Now, there's a few things that bother me though. The interior layout sometimes isn't in exact format. There are paragraphs that aren't indented, letters that are left out in bizarre rearranging of text, sentences that appear to have tabs in-between words. There were also a number of grammatical mistakes that weren't picked up by SNUFF's editor (and obviously should have been.) I won't put Enck and Huber at fault though, because they can't control design and editing production unless they're directly involved in it. My book also received a bad tear up the spine (which was most likely from shipping, and which I plan on getting a new book from said shipper.) I don't know if it was the binding or the shipping, but I'm guessing the shipping. I was also concerned about SNUFF's length. I felt there was a lot of uncovered back story that could and should have been utilized more. (Jack's back story was what made his twisted character even more believable; I wanted to see more of it.)
So, what did I think of SNUFF as a book?
Having not read any of Enck's or Huber's work, I wasn't sure what to expect. I did, however, expect something violent, and violent was what I got. I visible cringed and started to get squeamish (which rarely happens.) and a few times I had to stop and reread a sentence (particularly one about being sodomized by a coat hanger and a knife.) I LITERALLY stopped, saw the scenario in my head, then had to wait a moment before I started to read again.
I highly commend SNUFF. It's real, it's raw, and it's something you could talk about. I wouldn't have written since a long review if there wasn't a story to talk about, and if you want a twisted story and something good to read, SNUFF is definitely a good choice.
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This book contains the most violent,brutal,hair raising story I have ever read to date.From the very start this story grabs hold and doesnt let go until the very end.It lived up to its reputation and reviews 100%in my opinion and the ending was a perfect fit.Adam and Eric have written a masterpiece of a horror story with two of the most ruthless characters ever to come to life on the pages of horror fiction.Best money I have spent on a book in along time.
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