Snuff (2008) (edit title/settings)

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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…”

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• A damsel too dumb to even know she’s in distress.

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• To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs.

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• Cyanide and sugar. Poison and antidote. Like maybe we balance each other out.

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• Porn, he says, is a job you only take after you abandon all hope.

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• Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will fuck you up, every time.

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• “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.”

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• 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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• Mr. Toto
• Oklahoma
• Hollywood

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1. Chuck Palahniuk (Author)

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

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Erotica
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary