Chuck Palahniuk's "Snuff" And The Legend Of Cassie Wright

Reading a book by Chuck Palahniuk—author of cult classics like "Fight Club" and "Lullaby"—has occasionally been described as a mindfuck. Time-bending stories of vividly bizarre characters in surreal situations is kind of his specialty. For his latest novel, however, he's moved on from mind fucking to just, well ... fucking. "Snuff" is the story of veteran pornstar Cassie Wright, who hopes to end her career with a big bang. A 600-person gangbang to be specific. How and why she accomplishes this, you'll have to read the book to discover, but we are amused by the online efforts to imagine what Cassie's career might have looked like in the real world. We don't know where she would have ended up in the firmament of today's pornstars, but we do know that we would like to have seen her interpretation of Dorothy in "The Wizard of Ass." (See the "trailer" below.) Who says that literature is dead?

...

· Cassie Wright (myspace.com)
· Chuck Palahniuk (chuckpalahniuk.net)
· "Snuff" by Chuck Palahniuk (Amazon)

2:54 PM on Fri May 9 2008
By Dashiell Bennett
4,650 views
2 comments

Comments

CloudCarrier at 04:39 PM on 05/09/08
Reply by Email
*

I am anxiously awaiting Michiko Kakutani's cameo appearance in The Twilight Bone.
$Image of josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris\'s sack-dance for you$ josereyes.theroof... at 07:09 PM on 05/10/08
Reply by Email
*
Connectedness Index: 1566

So, does she die at the end? If not, the event(s) depicted in the novel will not qualify as snuff.

... Oh. But I'm sure Pahluniak means she wants to snuff out her career with a glorious pyre of porn. Sure.

(Really, he should have just called the tome Gang-bang, which is pretty graphic. Snuff prolly did test better for outrage/willingness to buy in disgust, though. & Pahluniak, & any other "outlaw" writer &/or artist of modern alt-culture, is, like Master P, "all 'bout makin' money, g". So, Snuff over Gang-bang it is.)