Chuck Palahniuk

the oral biography of Buster Casey

Rant

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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Traci Wilbanks

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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