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Snuff | 
| Authors: Eric Enck, Adam Huber
Publisher: Blu Phi'er Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $13.99
Buy New: $8.33
You Save: $5.66 (40%)
Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 153124
Media: Paperback
Pages: 188
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 0979988462
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780979988462
ASIN: 0979988462
Publication Date: May 17, 2008
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Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Brand New. Delivery is usually 5 - 8 working days from order, International is by Royal Mail Airmail
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Product Description
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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A novel of perversion, terror and torture August 7, 2008
Kody Boye (Idaho)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 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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