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 Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey - Chuck Palahniuk
Description: ISBN 0224080598 / Author: Chuck Palahniuk / Genre: Fiction Newest Review: ... end. As seems quite common with American novels, one of the important deeper themes of "Rant" is the combination of ... more  ... the fear of death and the notion of either taming, controlling or conquering death mixed with the perception of 'normal', 'mainstream' life as artificially blunted and sweetened. The book panders to the rather naive idea that the 'real' life is invariably rough, edgy, sharp and brutal, that being bitten by a Black Widow is inherently more 'real' than smelling roses. Palahniuk's characters also seem to believe that by the sheer engagement in mildly destructive activities (bumping into each others' cars at not more t...more |
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Format: Paperback, ISBN: 9780099499367
Pages: 336, Paperback, Vintage - Books/Subjects/Fiction/Authors, ... |
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Format: hardback, Publisher: Vintage, ISBN: 0224080598
Pages: 336, Hardcover, Jonathan Cape - Books/Subjects/Fiction/Aut ... |
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Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey - Chuck Palahniuk: More Chuck-Cake (1111 words)
by MagdaDH - written on 04.08.07 (Very useful, 164 readings)
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"Rant" tells the tale of Rant Casey, born in the redneck town of Middleton to develop an animal bite addiction, become an urban legend and likely a Patient Zero of pan-American rabies epidemic. He leaves Middleton to find his real father in the big, bad city, where he gets involved in a underground game of Party Crashing, where parties dressed in clothes and cars chosen according to the 'flag' of the night meet up to hunt and bump into each other in a game of controlled fender bending. I have not read anything by Palahniuk before, but this is his seventh book and I am told it's not very different from the previous ones. It read as something spawned ...
Will I Be Ranting and Raving About This Book? (977 words)
by samueltyler - written on 17.07.07 (Very useful, 90 readings)
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There are certain authors that probably have a few screws loose in their heads. If you went out on a summer’s day for a picnic they would be unlikely to pack the required number of sandwiches. In fact, if they were to be made into a confectionary good they would probably be fruit loops. Chuck Palahniuk is one such author. His stories are always dark, adult and menacing, however, they are also always packed with the most unique and insightful ideas. Every book that I read by him makes me both impressed and worried about his state of mind. Sex addicts, models with no lower jaw, imaginary anarchists, killer bed time stories – all these concepts have come out of the ...
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