On Snuff

Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

At first, I thought I was just reading porn. Yes, reading, not watching which makes this book a unique one. It's my first time to encounter a book where in porn making is illustrated.

I thought it was just about porn, about a lady trying to be legendary by having sex with 600 men in a day, beating other records.

But Chuck Palahniuk is good enough to put a twist that a boy is one of the 600 males to have sex with the porn star, Cassie Wright, and that boy claims himself as Cassie's son.

The boy, #72, said that he does not want to have sex with her birth mother and that he just want to give his mom a new life. He just want to get his mother out of that life.

And Palahniuk is better enough to put another twist that it turns out that #72 is not Cassie's child that her child is a girl and that she is just saying that its a boy.

Another twist, a big one, is that Cassie's Personal-Assistant-ish Shiela, was her birth child and she knows that since she first lay her eyes on her.

Cassie has been given poison and she realize this that she said to her daughter that she knows she's her child and that she wants to give her another life.

It turns out that she's making all the money so that her daughter would be rich. She knows she'll die one day and that she wants to ensure her daughters future.

I like the twists of the book. I like how Palahniuk makes your mind think that this is what's happening and all of a sudden, changes everything. A must read!


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