Rant

An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

by Chuck Palahniuk

Hardcover, 336 pages

English language

Published Oct. 30, 2007 by Doubleday.

ISBN:: 978-0-385-51787-4
OCLC Number:: 71322095
Goodreads:: 22285

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"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 CaseyExpect 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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🥒 reviewed Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk

Palahniuk's Greatest Assets Are Centre-Stage While his Flaws Take a Backseat

5 stars

By far my favourite Palahniuk! It's so perfectly suited to its format, the voices feel incredibly real and while there is some rambling info-dumping, it's not nearly as tedious as it is in some of his other works. Incredibly bizarre, unexpected, gross, crass, lower-class, funny, thrilling, and intriguing. Some might not acclimate as easily to his brand of weirdness (be forewarned!) but I think this one was cooked to perfection.

rototrav reviewed Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk

Review of 'Rant' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

I'm not sure what I thought of this book. I need to take some time and read it again. Geez.

kdwarn reviewed Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk

Review of 'Rant' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

Interesting, would have been much better if he had just written it like a normal book and left out the multi-perspective/non-linear/symbols. Seemed like a reach, like he was doing it just to be different.