Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
by Chuck Palahniuk
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Author: Chuck PalahniukEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Import
Published: 2008-05-06
ISBN: 0385663501
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Anchor Canada
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Book Review: One of the craziest rides you'll ever experience on 336 pages
Summary: 5 Stars
This book really delivered what I expected and that's nothing short of genius writing. I began reading this book after finishing Choke, which disappointed me, and I was in need of redemption in one of Chuck's books. The style of the book (similar to that of Capote) reads quickly: it's from multiple points of views of different people who knew Rant Casey. It reads like a play almost and between them all you capture the entire story of Rant Casey but still with just that little bit left at the end for you to decide for yourself. I absolutely loved this book and although it gets a little..out there, I still enjoyed the expected twist toward the end of the book. This book does what most of Palahniuk's books do, make you think about society, yourself, what we think about things and the possibilies. This book still has me thinking and this is the book that keeps Chuck at the top of the list of my favorite fiction authors.
Summary of Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
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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