Snuff

This is one of the most brutal, violent, graphic, and shocking books I've ever read. It was so deliciously good I read it in one sitting. The authors are very descriptive and inventive in their killing and torture, the bad guys are built great and you hate them as you should. The brutality is impossible to rip your eyes from the pages, you must keep reading. Now this isn't everyone's cup of tea and it's not supernatural or other monsters killing, it's the worst kind...people. I will never forget this book and I look forward to other works by these authors. I've only read two other books similar in brutal violence graphically described like this, Damaged and The Girl Next Door. Along with those books, Snuff will adorn my keepers shelf.And for the record, I do not know either of the authors and yes I was very shocked and horrified from the first page. But that's also what made it so I couldn't put it down.

if i had any complaint whatsoever about this book, it’s outweighed by the fact that it executed it so well that i can’t even be bothered. there are times where you read something and it makes you stop and think, “this feels like something a teenage boy would write for edge and shock value,” but at the same time, that edge and shock value wows me and has stuck in my mind for MONTHS. and at the same time—that’s why you buy a book like this, to read about gore for the sake of gore and delight in the grotesque.i adored the premise when i first heard about it, i thought it was so original and enticing that i wasted no time ordering it. i must have only been a fourth of the way through when i came back to order another book by eric enck, one i’m eager to start now that i’ve finished this one.there are so many details that i loved and raved about to friends and family, much to their disgust haha, but i won’t include them here. i can’t stress enough how much i loved this book. loved it, loved it, loved it.

This book is exactly what I had heard and expected. It is insanely gory and discriptive. It was a fairly quick read, it took me 2 days, and it was a roller coaster. I will admit however, some of the writing was unclear especially when it came to dream sequences or flashbacks. The second half felt a bit rushed, and I predicted the "twist" ending chapters away. I wouldn't recommend this book if you want a incredibly thought out story (or if tou have a weak stomach), but if you only want gore, this is the one for you.

Unusual but good read

This book contains the most violent,brutal,hair raising story I have ever read to date.From the very start this story grabs hold and doesnt let go until the very end.It lived up to its reputation and reviews 100%in my opinion and the ending was a perfect fit.Adam and Eric have written a masterpiece of a horror story with two of the most ruthless characters ever to come to life on the pages of horror fiction.Best money I have spent on a book in along time.

I just recently read this and I gotta say it wasn't the greatest story I've ever read or the worst. I have an interest in the whole mythcial "snuff film" so I was eager to read it when I first came across this on here. The beginning was kind of hard to follow and the there were numerous editing mistakes. The violence was told well and I did like how it worked out in the end. I didnt like all the major and I mean MAJOR coincidences in the book but maybe that was the point and it was lost on me somewhere. If your a fan of violent and graphic horror then you may enjoy this otherwise dont bother.

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 out 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 root for, the reader (this is me) is not immersed into the action, but rather grows apart 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 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 leaves 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.