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From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a full-frontal Triple X novel that goes where no American work of fiction has gone before Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera. With six hundred... read more

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  • Cassie Wright: A porn actress attempting to break a record by sleeping with 600 men.
  • Mr 137 (aka Dan Banyan): A narcissistic former TV star who volunteers to help Cassie Wright break the record believing it will help him get back his carrer.
  • Mr. 72 (aka Darin Johnson): A young man who volunteers to help Cassie Wright break the record, he's obssessed with her as he is convinced that he is the child Cassie gave up 20 years prior.
  • Sheila: Cassie Wright's angry personal assistant. She is referred to as the Talent Wrangler and is responsible for the entire project.
  • Mr. 600: A decadent porn actor by the stage name of Branch Bacardi and one of the 600 men who volunteers to help Cassie Wright break a record.
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  • “"Porn is a job you take after you abandon all hope."”
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  • “It can only take a moment,” the 137 guy says, “to waste the rest of your life…”
    Highlighted by 45 Kindle customers
  • No, whether a woman is a concubine to fuck or a damsel to redeem, she’s always just some passive object to fulfill a man’s purpose.
    Highlighted by 40 Kindle customers
  • During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was disgusted by seeing his fellow soldiers visit French brothels. To keep the Aryan blood-lines pure, and prevent the spread of venereal disease, he commissioned an inflatable doll that Nazi troops could take into battle. Hitler himself designed the dolls to have blond hair and large breasts. The Allied firebombing of Dresden destroyed the factory before the dolls could go into wide distribution.
    Highlighted by 33 Kindle customers
  • A damsel too dumb to even know she’s in distress.
    Highlighted by 32 Kindle customers
  • To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs.
    Highlighted by 31 Kindle customers
  • Cyanide and sugar. Poison and antidote. Like maybe we balance each other out.
    Highlighted by 28 Kindle customers
  • Porn, he says, is a job you only take after you abandon all hope.
    Highlighted by 27 Kindle customers
  • Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will fuck you up, every time.
    Highlighted by 26 Kindle customers
  • “It only takes one mistake,” the Dan Banyan guy says, “and nothing else you ever do will matter.” With his empty hand, he takes one of my hands. His fingers feel hot, fever-hot, and pounding with his heartbeats. He turns my hand palm-up, saying, “No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you’ll always be known for that one poor choice.” He sets the blue pill on my palm, saying, “Do that one wrong thing—and you’ll be dead for the rest of your life.”
    Highlighted by 19 Kindle customers
  • It only came out later, about Linda Lovelace being held hostage and brutalized. Or how, before becoming a porn star, Grace Quek had been raped in London by four men and a twelve-year-old boy. Early adopters love Annabel Chong. The damaged love the damaged.
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First Sentence edit see section history

One dude stood all afternoon at the buffet wearing just his boxers, licking the orange dust off barbecued potato chips.

Table of Contents edit see section history

1. Mr. 600
2. Mr. 72
3. Mr. 137
4. Sheila
5. Mr. 600
6. Mr. 72
7. Mr. 137
8. Sheila
9. Mr. 600
10. Mr. 72
11. Mr. 137
12. Sheila
13. Mr. 600
14. Mr. 72
15. Mr. 137
16. Sheila
17. Mr. 600
18. Mr. 72
19. Mr. 137
20. Sheila
21. Mr. 600
22. Mr. 72
23. Mr. 137
24. Sheila
25. Mr. 600
26. Mr. 72
27. Mr. 137
28. Sheila
29. Mr. 72
30. Mr. 137
31. Sheila
32. Mr. 600
33. Mr. 72
34. Mr. 137
35. Sheila

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Chuck Palahniuk (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday
Country: United States
Publication Date: May 28, 2008
ISBN: 978-0385517881
Page Count: 197

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: PS3566.A4554S68
  • Dewey: 813.54

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