Name: Rant
Rating: 3.772058823529412 (68 reviews)
ISBN: 9780385517874

Chuck Palahniuk

the oral biography of Buster Casey

Rant

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.

An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

Ans Rizwan

Sonia Flores

Reading a book by Chuck Palahniuk is like learning to do something new. At first, you have no idea what is it about and you even may think of quitting, but then, slowly, it stars making sense and you make yourself keep reading hoping you will understand more and more (mostly because you like the way the book is written), so when you get to the end, you realize that at the beginning you HAD NO IDEA (and you feel good because is like being on top of the world now, but at the same time you want to punch yourself in the face cause you first felt like you were the most idiot person ever)
Then you think you should read it again and understand some stuff you don't even know you've read but they're there, too deep or too wicked.
The thing is that it doesn't matter how many times you read it, you feel like you keep missing things and you should read it over and over again, but they're just excuses. You're still ignoring a piece of the genius thoughts of Palahniuk and even tho you can read it like you're an expert, you still got some things that you'll never understand.

The most unbelievable thing about this author's work is, that it doesn't matter how disgusting, or weird, or detestable are the characters, you still develop curiousness for them, and maybe a little, a little sympathy too.
All this happened to me when I was reading fight club, and it's happening again. I don't feel bad anymore, I think these books are worth my time and the occasional thoughts that I'm a useless child that hasn't live enough don't make me so sad neither.

The only thing I don't quite like about Palahniuk is that he always uses the same. Always sex, always depravation and it kinda bores me to a point. I mean, you can find a person interesting until you realize you don't want to know him to the point of feeling disgusted. You read ONE book and it may blow your mind a little, but when you read another one and you use the came characteristics, people start thinking there's no much in your repertory. I think that, even tho I liked this one a little (cause of the edgy characters, but not specially Buster), I may have too think it twice to read another one by C. Palahniuk

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Rant is the oral history of one Buster 'Rant' Casey, in which an assortment of friends, enemies, detractors, lovers and relations have their say on the man who may or may not be the most efficient serial killer of our time. Rant is a darkly glittering anti-hero whose recreational drug of choice is rabies, and whose own personal Viagra is the venom of a black widow spider. He soon leaves his half-feral hometown for the big city, where he becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. On designated nights, the Party Crashers chase each other in cars in the hope of a collision, and all the while Rant, the 'superspreader', transmits his lethal disease...

Rant the oral biography of Buster Casey

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