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| Original Title: | Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey |
| ISBN: | 0385517874 (ISBN13: 9780385517874) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Buster Casey |
| Setting: | United States of America |
Chuck Palahniuk
Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 3.81 | 60153 Users | 2906 Reviews
Present Containing Books Rant
| Title | : | Rant |
| Author | : | Chuck Palahniuk |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 2007 by Doubleday Books (first published 2007) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Science Fiction. Horror |
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Buster “Rant” Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, Rant Casey escapes from his small town home for the big city where he becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death, after which his friends gather the testimony needed to build an oral history of his short, violent life.Rating Containing Books Rant
Ratings: 3.81 From 60153 Users | 2906 ReviewsDiscuss Containing Books Rant
I can't do it. I can't finish this book. Usually Palahniuk creates fairly unsympathetic characters, as in this book, and that I'm used to. Because it WORKS; the plot-lines of his books are always ridiculous in a totally fascinating way, which makes up for the stupid characters. However, Rant bored the fuck out of me. I tried. I read more than half and I do not care about this nutjob guy and his rabies and his slobbering all over the ladies, or the driving around in cars being obnoxious orI'm at a loss. Tell me, should I rate it based on the experience of reading it or how it messed my entire afternoon after I finished it. What warrants fiction whatever the appraisal we readers give. Should I rate it low because of how harrowingly ambiguous Chuck is or high because how accurately ambiguous Chuck P is in this book.I'm so conflicted. The most engrossing book I've read all year.Period. But also the most painfully convoluted one.My brain still hurts, but that's good. Why even bother
3.5Is he the protagonist, or the antagonist? Good question about our Mr. Buster Casey, also known as 'Rant' which is also a pretty good description of this story. I mean, this thing is all over the place. To figure it out you might have to partake in some time traveling and still you'd be left with filtering facts from rabid infested party crashers with gold coins in their pockets and Christmas trees tied to the roofs of their cars. Still confused? You should be. After all, this is classic
I can't do it. I can't finish this book. Usually Palahniuk creates fairly unsympathetic characters, as in this book, and that I'm used to. Because it WORKS; the plot-lines of his books are always ridiculous in a totally fascinating way, which makes up for the stupid characters. However, Rant bored the fuck out of me. I tried. I read more than half and I do not care about this nutjob guy and his rabies and his slobbering all over the ladies, or the driving around in cars being obnoxious or
Rant is the first Palahniuk book that Ive ever read, but its really turned me on to him as a writer I cant believe how exciting it was, and how vividly Palahniuk was able to show his semi-fictional world to us. Loosely speaking, its the story of Rant Casey, whos described as the man who may or may not be the most efficient serial killer of our time.Rant is a crazy young man with an addiction to everything thats base and degenerate he deliberately allows himself to be bitten by poisonous
Rant kicked so much ass. Part of the joy is the idea of a car...with a flaming Christmas tree on top...flying through the air into a body of water...to the, you know, strains of Philip Glass' Violin Concerto II.Part of the joy comes from the fact this is the first third of a trilogy, apparently. Part of the joy is that the book is entirely a greatest-hits package of Chuck's strengths...remixed in the "oral biography" form. Like, like if Guns n' Roses wrote ten variations on "Sweet Child o' Mine"
OMG CHUCK DID IT AGAIN!! Through a whole of witnesses, you have to glue the pieces together to understand.. and then comes the ending and you're completely MINDBLOWN. Taboos, disgusting elements and the magic of dark humor, you'll find another book worth of Chuck's name.
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