Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey
by Chuck Palahniuk
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Book Reviews of Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey
Book Review: Nothing to rant home about
Summary: 3 Stars
I picked this up because I loved Fight Club: A Novel, Choke and Survivor: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk. Rant just didn't do it for me! I found it confusing and difficult to follow Rant Casey's life through the little vignettes and anecdotes.
This is not a book for the faint of heart as Rant/Buster Casey and his life and the lives of many of his friends and acquaintances are lives of violence, perversion and cruelty. The writing is raw. The prose is edgy.
Rant probably won't attrack new readers to Palahniuk's wonderful stable of books, but for the Palahniuk reader it is a must whether you like it or not!
Book Review: Wow...that pretty much sums it up
Summary: 4 Stars
When you read something by Chuck Palaniuk you know you're in for something unique and off the wall. Well "Rant" delivers again.
I've read "Fight Club" (very good) and "Choke" (another good one) by the author and when I heard about "Rant" I knew I had to read it. What can I say without giving too much away? Well the book is told in the form of testimonials about the title character Rant Casey who is dead. What follows is the weird life story of his, a man who managed to pass along a deadly strain of rabies to a large portion of the population before his mysterious death. The book is set slightly in the future. I highly recommend this book for anyone who likes oddness in their readings, there's disease, a dysotopian future, people who create car accidents for fun, a little bit of a mystery and even the inklings of time travel.
A book not to be missed!
Book Review: One Of The Greatest Stories Ever
Summary: 5 Stars
The style this book is written in is very original.
The story is side crackingly hilarious, with the usual striking Palahniuk imagery. The way he constructs sentences is unbelievable. The poetic power of some of the writing in Rant takes your breath away. There is typically mind bending Palahniuk story structure, true to his ever-excellent form.
Also, there's a fair bit of sex. You obviously can't go wrong.
There is also a cameo from Clive Warren and Rebecca De Mornay, where they actually take a select hemisphere from each of their own brains, and combine it to make a beast brain that is completely irrational, based totally on emotion and intuition, because alas, they each selected the right hemisphere of their brain when forming the combination monster brain.
Book Review: Exemplary style, story average at best.
Summary: 3 Stars
I blew through Rant about as fast as I blew through the rest of Palahniuk's novels (the ones I've read, I mean). As usual, Palahniuk keeps your attention (although better with this book than with, say, Diary). Unlike others, I actually enjoyed the oral biography style and did not really find it distracting at all. The fact that Palahniuk can give so many different characters different voices, but still keep the reader interested, is the sign of a true artist.
That said, as stories go--especially Palahniuk stories--Rant simply falls a bit short. I get the feeling that Palahniuk started writing, not sure where this tale or his characters would end up, and when he threw his usual twist in, it simply wasn't as shocking or satisfying as those in Lullaby and Choke.
Book Review: Both Incredible and Airborne
Summary: 5 Stars
Rant is further proof that the disgusting and clever beauty of Chuck Palahniuk is unparalleled in our day and age. Each chapter is packed full of tight and tiny ideas about us, as people. And every idea will make you smile in enjoyable revulsion. The characters are woven from every homeless person and every bar fighter you ever ran away from - they become your friends, and they change you.
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