Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
“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.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 29, 2008 Type: User Review |
sorry but not today
This tried to be a good book. The ending made no sense to me and just ruined the book.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 24, 2008 Type: User Review |
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...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 18, 2008 Type: User Review |
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...
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 5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 09, 2008 Type: User Review |
ridiculous
people who like this book are ridiculous and don't know what they are talking about. don't read it!
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 04, 2008 Type: User Review |
Chuck's downword spiral continues
Chuck's trip towards mediocracy continues. Rant is a boring car wreck of a book written in oral biography style. The characters are lame. The plot is weak. The book is just blah. A towns secrets all are blown up against the fence which is where...
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