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Everything's great until it turns into some "fantastic adventure mixed with a fuck off Jesus Christ attitude and a dash of Fast and Furious," and then I'm just left disappointed. I was hoping for more from Chuck Palahniuk's "Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey."

Want a short and sweet review?Chuck Chuck,What a sick fuck.Jokes aside, what a bizarre and audacious book. The kind where you think to yourself, "This isn't your average book," and you can't even pin down the genre. Horror? Dystopian? Crime? Satire? Maybe mostly sci-fi, but I'm not sure.Everyone knows Palahniuk from that book whose first two rules I shouldn't break, and this one had a lot in common with it.A main character who's an enemy of the ordinary lifestyle and searching for a vaccine agai...

Another fantastic piece of original and innovative fiction from Chuck Palahniuk, as he crafts an 'oral history' of the life and times of Buster 'Rant' Casey in *Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey*. This is a dark, pseudo-science horror story, with a dash of off-key comedy, told through excerpts of interview transcripts from people whose lives Rant touched. A Palahniuk masterclass in twisted fiction. 8 out of 12.2013 read Looking for unique horror books? Check out *Rant: The Oral History of ...

Chuck Palahniuk is the literary equivalent of punk rock. In a book that tackles varied and important themes, *Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey* manages to deliver an exceptionally peculiar storyline that never loses sight of its primary goal: being a hell of a good time. This is a book that grapples with important topics, like religion and the meaning of life, but doesn't keep itself neatly organized and stacked with pristine white pages. Instead, *Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey* i...

What the hell was that?Let me start by saying I love Chuck Palahniuk. I love his usually disturbing stories and weird characters. I don't mind that he seems a little crazy, and I don't mind all the sex he writes about. I also don't mind the gory/gross factor. I genuinely like him!But *Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey* was just bad, in my opinion. Maybe if I knew it had an amazing ending I could have pushed through the last half, but after the first half of this book, I realized I didn't ca...

What the actual f**k did I just read, and why did I waste my time finishing it? Chuck Palahniuk's Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey is a bizarre concoction of random narrators, repulsive imagery, time travel shenanigans, car crashes galore, a rabies epidemic, and characters so dull they could put you to sleep. I kept hoping against hope that it would somehow redeem itself, but then it just...ended. The story vaguely follows this dim-witted dude named Buster, or Rant (as he's annoyingly know...

This is the story of a small-town hellraiser named Buster ‘Rant’ Casey, who did some slightly unusual things growing up, like collecting bucketfuls of his classmates’ teeth. Young Rant also angers more animals than Steve Irwin, so they’ll bite him and infect him with rabies, which he deliberately spreads to his classmates. After he grows up and moves to the city, Rant joins a disenfranchised part of society forced by law to stay in their homes during the day, who get their kicks by crashing cars...

I just can't do it. I can't finish "Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey" by Chuck Palahniuk. Usually, Palahniuk creates fairly unsympathetic characters, as he does in this book, and I'm used to that. Because it WORKS; the plotlines of his books are always ridiculously fascinating, which makes up for the unlikeable characters. However, "Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey" bored the absolute hell out of me. I tried. I read more than half, and I do not care about this nutjob guy and his rabi...

I'm not a Chuck Palahniuk fan just because he's "edgy," or because I get off on the so-called depravity of his often violent and sexual themes. I know a few people like that. What I enjoyed most about *Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey* was the structure, the measured reveal. Based on the oral tradition, each chapter is composed of brief statements from a cast of dozens. Individually, these narrators are hopelessly unreliable, but taken together they form a whole picture that is more true t...