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	• Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey Chuck Palahniuk Anchor Canada, 2008 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 118 reviews view larger image
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Hella cool, if you can keep up

This novel was very interesting, not just from a wildly inventive story line and haphazardly insane way of telling it, but it seems a departure from his other books. Those who read his other books may not even recognize it as Pahlaniuk.

Surprisingly unfocused

Rant is a fictional oral history of a rebellious, vivacious, and literally rabid man. It's form--alternating paragraphs written by different individuals--is completely conducive to Palahniuk's indirect story telling. As with all of his books, Rant is filled to the brim with interesting and relevant insights into our culture; most of which take the form of highly entertaining, matter-of-fact asides about the way things are.

By most measures Rant is a fine book. It has the grit and pull characteristic of Palahniuk, yet it lacks the focused punch of his previous novels. Where Fight Club took anarchist philosophy to the very edge, and Haunted managed to utterly mortify the reader, Rant comes up empty. Without apparent focus, Rant does not compare well to the author's otherwise compelling catalog.

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Another Great Hit

I listened to this book. This book was awesome! If you like Palahniuk's other works, you will like this one. Funny, Gross and Mind Bending. I was sorry when it was done.

Beyond Chuck

Rant sheds light on yet another sick subculture of impossibilities... the story was raw, completely unpredictable, and very unsettling. It was beyond Chuck. I've never written a review about a book before, but I feel I'm compelled to because it got an overall 3.5 stars. Apparently only us "nighttimers" tried to bring this experience some justice.

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