Snuff [Paperback]

Eric Enck (Author), Adam Huber (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 17, 2008

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 188 pages
• Publisher: Blu Phi'er Publishing (May 17, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0979988462
• ISBN-13: 978-0979988462
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,325,414 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Almost five stars? Must be a joke, November 15, 2008

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Chema Pamundi (Barcelona, Spain) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Snuff (Paperback)

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.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Just plain bad, November 28, 2008

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Daniel J. Fortune (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Snuff (Paperback)

I had some misgivings before buying this book. I kept those in mind as I began reading it. It's just a bad book. It's poorly written, VERY poorly edited and it rips off so many different books and films that it isn't even funny. As far as the gore goes, it gets messy, but it seems like the authors read "American Psycho" too many times. Even the gore is poorly written. Just a bad book all the way around. If you're looking for a horror novel, this isn't it. If you're looking for gore for the sake of gore, they didn't even get that right.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It is what it is., September 14, 2008

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Barbie Kay "thriller buff" (Indiana) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Snuff (Paperback)

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.