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Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385517874
ISBN: 0385517874
Label: Doubleday
Manufacturer: Doubleday
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: May 01, 2007
Publisher: Doubleday
Release Date: May 01, 2007
Studio: Doubleday
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Editorial Review:“Like most people I didn’t meet Rant Casey until after he was dead. That’s how it works for most celebrities: After they croak, their circle of friends just explodes.…”
Rant is the mind-bending new novel from Chuck Palahniuk, the literary provocateur responsible for such books as the generation-defining classic Fight Club and the pedal-to-the-metal horrorfest Haunted. It takes the form of an oral history of one Buster “Rant” Casey, who may or may not be the most efficient serial killer of our time.
“What ‘Typhoid Mary’ Mallon was to typhoid, what Gaetan Dugas was to AIDS, and Liu Jian-lun was to SARS, Buster Casey would become for rabies.”
A high school rebel who always wins (and a childhood murderer?), Rant Casey escapes from his small hometown of Middleton for the big city. He becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. On appointed nights participants recognize one another by such designated car markings as “Just Married” toothpaste graffiti and then stalk and crash into each other. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death, after which his friends gather testimony needed to build an oral history of his short, violent life. Their collected anecdotes explore the possibility that his saliva caused a silent urban plague of rabies and that he found a way to escape the prison house of linear time.…
“The future you have, tomorrow, won’t be the same future you had, yesterday.”
—Rant Casey
Expect hilarity, 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 visionary to watch to learn what's —uh-oh—coming next.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Typical hit or miss Chuck
Just like any book written by Palahniuk, this one could have been a hit or miss. Unlike others though, you couldn't tell towards the end where it veered off into oblivion and complete nonsense.
Ok, nonsense is normal for him. I mean, there was a whole bbook based upon a guy who fights his imaginary friend for fun and that turned out to be GREAT! But this kind of nonsense just was over the top, even in Chuck's inimitable style.
3 stars for a good first 3/4.
Rating:  - 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!
Rating:  - A rant about Rant
What a chore. I read Choke, Lullaby, and Survivor, and enjoyed them all. Those books were full of biting social commentary, dark humor, and entertaining stories. With Rant, I think Chuck was more worried about the form of the book than the content. As you surely have learned, Rant is written as an "oral biography", from the perspective of various people who came into contact with Rant Casey, the most notorious serial killer of a non-descript time in the future. Every paragraph is written in ... Read More
Rating: - sorry but not today
This tried to be a good book. The ending made no sense to me and just ruined the book.
Rating: - 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.
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