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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780385517874
ISBN number: 0385517874
Label: Doubleday
Manufacturer: Doubleday
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 336
Printing Date: May 01, 2007
Publishing house: Doubleday
Release Date: May 01, 2007
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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 Casey
Expect 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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The book was in great condition and came a little late but I think it had to ship pretty far so no biggie.
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To put it simply, I loved this book! When I very first started to read it I was a little put off by how the author had the story narrated but I came to love it. The book has different people telling different accounts connected to the main character Rant/Buster Casey. At very first each person would bring up some event that doesn't make sense but when the other accounts from different people were read you understand what is going on. The imagination the author must have to think of such a story! I didn't even know he wrote Fight Club when I picked up the book but I will definitely be looking for other books of his. I enjoyed this book and will tell others about it and the author.
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A way out in left field read that at times is hard to follow... but keep reading because it will all make sense in the end.
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"Perpetuating Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny breaks ground for further socilization"... When reading this book I didn't care much for the very first two hundred pages; but the final hundred brought the picture all into focus, and put a nice frame around it! Recommended Reading
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Rant is imaginative and completely original. You may feel lost trying to figure out what exactly is going on during the very first few pages but soon everything falls into place and your mind is totally blown! The best book I have read in years and sure to be a modern classic. I love all the books I have read by Chuck Palahniuk and Rant is my favorite. You need this book.
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