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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780307275837
ISBN number: 0307275833
Label: Anchor
Manufacturer: Anchor
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 336
Printing Date: May 06, 2008
Publishing house: Anchor
Release Date: May 06, 2008
Sale Popularity Level: 11327
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Buster “Rant” Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, Rant Casey escapes from his small town home for the big city where he becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death, after which his friends gather the testimony needed to build an oral history of his short, violent life. With hilarity, horror, and blazing insight, Rant is a mind-bending vision of the future, as only Chuck Palahniuk could ever imagine.
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Having read only Palahniuk's "Fight Club" (2 years before the film) previously and enjoyed it, I thought this book too would be found to be a breath of fresh air. Instead I came away from it feeling like Palahniuk is a one trick pony...He seems to seek to shock the reader with differing gross out scenarios and behaviors...Yet numbed by films like SAW 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, etc., etc., and seeing and hearing worse than Palahniuk's creations every night on the evening news, his prose no longer brings anything new to light...A sad reflection on our society it is but Palahniuk's worlds have become the everyday mundane...
The oral history style of the book is its best part, only seeing the protagonist from a distance, we never get inside his head, only hearing how others observed him...The plot itself reads like JG Ballard's Crash mixed with leftovers of Fight Club and a dozen other "shocking" novels...nothing new or earthbreaking here and you don't really get involved with the novel, merely skipping from page to page waiting for a character or event to care about...neither of which ever arrive...
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This story is written in a very unusual format, as if you are listening in on snippets of conversations. But as you remain, the pieces begin to weave together and form a story so odd and yet so compelling, that you can not put it down.
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I picked this book up because I'm tired of reading the typical Grisham novel and wanted something well written and odd. Rant fit the bill. I've never read any of his other books and I was suprised at how much I liked it. The story is strange and beautiful and at the same time it can be very confusing if you don't pay close attention to everythings thats going on, but if you do I think the ending is rewarding. There were several times that I felt like I was going to just put it down, but then there would be a twist in the story that would intrigue me and pull me in for more. If you like dark, imaginative, mysterious, fairy-tales, with a sci-fi bent, then rant is the book for you.
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I thought it was excellent. Ye sit took awhile to get rolling and it was a touch confusing trying to see where it would lead. But the last 1/4 of the book was impossible to put down. Palanhiuk's standard twists and turns are all there.
Well worth the read.
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This is hands down the absolute worst book I have wasted my time on. I only read about 3/4 of it before I decided I simply could not read another word. I'll use it as a doorstop.
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