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Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
Chuck Palahniuk
Anchor Canada
, 2008 - 336 pages
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CP is always good.
Everyone else has put down such great synopsises, I'm not going to bother going into detail. This book may not be the greatest thing CP has ever put out, but it's still pretty darn good. Not many authors can claim that their work is good even when it's considered to be a weak point.
I'd recommend this, but maybe not as someone's first foray into CP.
Must Read Twice maybe Three Times
I'm in shock at the negative reviews of this one. I found it to be mind-exploding in only the way that great authors can achieve. What starts off as a simple story of a "serial" killer soon morphs into a great sci-fi satire with enough bends and twists to keep even the most literate guessing. Immediately finishing, I went back to the beginning to read again, find out what I missed the first time. Not for the light reader, this one really shines in Palahniuk library. Time travel, religion, rabies, population control, it's all tackled here! A close second to Invisible Monsters.
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5 stars for Rant!
I love this book! Its kinda complicated and sometimes I had to go back and re-read a paragraph or two... but it was TOTALLY worth it. Love this book! Its dark and twisted and kinda perverted at parts but its worth it!
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The provocative and mind-bending new novel from the bestselling author of Fight Club and Haunted.
Rant takes
the form of a (fictional)
oral history
of
Buster
?Rant?
Casey
, in which an assortment of friends, enemies, admirers, detractors, and relations have their say on this evil character, who may or may not be the most efficient serial killer of our time.
Buster Casey was every small kid born in a small town, searching for real thrills in a world of video games and action/adventure movies. The high school rebel who always wins ? and a childhood murderer? ? Rant Casey escapes from his hometown of Middleton into the big city and becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing, where, on designated nights, the participants recognize each other by dressing their cars with tin-can tails, ?Just Married? toothpaste graffiti, and other refuse, then look for special markings in order to stalk and crash into each other. It?s in this violent, late-night hunting game that Casey makes three friends. And after his spectacular death, these friends gather the testimony needed to build an oral history of his short life. Their collected anecdotes explore the charges that his saliva infected hundreds and caused a silent, urban plague of rabies . . .
Expect hilarity and horror, and blazing insight into the desperate and surreal contemporary human condition as only Chuck Palahniuk can deliver it. He?s the postmillennial Jonathan Swift, the man to watch to learn what?s ? uh-oh ? coming next.
Excerpt from RANT:
Wallace Boyer (Car Salesman): Like most people, I didn?t meet and talk to Rant Casey until after he was dead. That?s how it works for most celebrities, after they croak their circle of close friends just explodes. A dead celebrity can?t walk down the street without meeting a million best buddies they never met in real life.
Dying was the best career move Jeff Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy ever made. . . .
The way Rant Casey used to say it: Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you?re alive?or praising you after you ain?t.
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