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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780307275837
ISBN number: 0307275833
Label: Anchor
Manufacturer: Anchor
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 336
Printing Date: May 06, 2008
Publishing house: Anchor
Release Date: May 06, 2008
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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. With hilarity, horror, and blazing insight, Rant is a mind-bending vision of the future, as only Chuck Palahniuk could ever imagine.
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Rant by Chuck Palahniuk ****
Written in a pretty unusual way for a novel Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey is one of Palahniuks crowning achievements as an author. Entertaining, funny, insightful, and always just a little bit odd.
The book chronicles the life of Buster 'Rant' Casey one of the worlds most notorious somethings. While not a mass murderer he might as well be. The story is told in spoken word interviews from the people who knew Rant best, or the ones who think they did. While every persons story conflicts with others it shows that we don't always see ourselves as others do.
While still not his best work, Rant is one of the top releases from UpChuck.
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Chuck Palahniuk is one of my favorite contemporary writers. In my opinion, I think he is destined to become known for many classics, including my two favorites: Survivor: A Novel and Fight Club: A Novel. "Rant" is a typical Palahniuk novel, and by typical I mean a incredible format and a story told only by the incredible lives of the characters that surround the hero (or anti-hero as the case may be).
"Rant" is told through the lives of those that encountered him, in the incredible, amazing, and tragic moments that defined his (and their) lives. I was not necessarily fond of the format throughout the duration of this book because at times some of the encounters are trivial at best. Knowing Palahniuk, I always thought there was something meaningful in the meaningless moments. Unfortunately, outside of further defining those characters and Rant himself, which I suppose is the whole point of the story.
It is a wonderful tale with a twist of the unnatural. Strung throughout the story is bits and pieces of the grand scheme of the direction of the story. You see it coming and know what is going on, but with the chaos and destruction of Rant's life pounding in every "testimonial," I almost refused to believe it.
This book is not in its own right a masterpiece, but it certainly further adds to the exceptional list of extraordinary books. It is a must read for Palahniuk fans, although for those out there, I would suggest the previously mentioned books as prerequisites for complete and total appreciation.
J.Stoner
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This has been a Palahniuk book I've avoided for quite some time. I was very skeptical of the oral biography format Palahniuk chose to use and that this was the very first of a sci-fi series Palahniuk was planning. Sci-fi and Palahniuk seem like they'd go together as well as chocolate on hotdogs.
I was wrong on both counts. The oral biography style gives the story a unique and quirky personality, and Chuck can write sci-fi. Who'd have guessed? What the plot lacks is made up for in personality.
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If you are considering this book I feel like I can make a couple of assumptions about you. First, (and I do hope that this is true) you have probably read one of the authors other books and understand that the story is not told in a linear fashion. You jump around quite a bit, but the story telling lends itself to that. Second, you have probably seen the movie "Fight Club" and understand how your mind gets twisted around trying to follow what is going on. If neither of these is true, then you probably won't like this book. If you have read some of the other stories like "Haunted", "Snuff" or "Choke" then you know what you are getting yourself into.
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Rant is very impressive. Palahniuk has already establuished himself as one of the greatest authors of our time, and now it feels as though he is showing off. This book is by far one of his best works. It is unpredictable, has amazing ideas and themes, and is a great story. A definate read, both for new fans and for the hardcore Palahniuk lovers.
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