I'm a big fan of ol' Palahniuk. There is something very readable about it, despite his subject matter usually being at the edge of what would be considered easy. 'Snuff' centres around one aging porn star's attempt to break the world record for number of different erm, partners in one fornication film. The book focuses mainly on 3 of the 600, and the producer of the film. The 4 main characters lives are inexplicably intertwined (well that sounds fancy), and it all builds up to a very funny ending, with many twists along the way.
One of the funniest parts of 'Snuff' are the constant reworkings of popular films for pornographic remakes. My personal favourite being 'Catch her in the eye'. I laughed for a good solid minute after that. Palahniuk once again manages to make a very funny book out of a pretty serious subject matter, which when you step back and think about it no longer becomes funny. But by gum I laughed, oh yes indeed.
I'm still in Belgrade. My 2 days has become 7. This is deja vu.
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