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Tutto molto bello finché non mi diventa un “fantastica avventura misto fuck off jesus christ con una punta di fast and furious” e allora ci rimango male.

میخواین یه ریویوی کوتاه و موزون بگم؟چـــــــاک چـــــــاکوات عه سیک فاک جدا از شوخی چه کتاب عجیب غریب و وقیحی بود. از اون کتاب‌هایی که وقتی دارید میخونید پیش خودتون میگین این یه کتاب عادی نیست و حتی نمیتونم ژانر کتاب رو تشخیص بدم. ترسناک، دیستوپیا، جنایی، طنز؟ شاید بیشتر از همه علمی-تخیلی باشه ولی مطمئن نیستمدیگه کل عالم و آدم پالانیک رو از اون کتابی که نباید قانون اول و دوم رو در موردش بشکنم، میشناسیم و این کتابم شباهت زیادی بهش داشتیه شخصیت اصلی که دشمن سبک زندگی عادیه و دنبال یه واکسن برای رو...

Yet another great piece of original and innovative fiction by Chuck Palahniuk, as he constructs an 'oral history' of the life and times of Buster 'Rant' Casey; this is a dark pseudo-science horror, slash off-key comedy, told in excerpts using the transcripts of interviews from people whose lives Rant had crossed. A Palahniuk masterclass in twisted fiction. 8 out of 12.

2013 read

Chuck Palahniuk is the literary equivalent of punk rock. In a book that pulls on varied and important themes, Rant: An Oral History of Buster Casey manages to feature an exceptionally peculiar storyline that never stops at its primary goal: being a hell of a good time. This is a book that deals 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 is a beautiful book with pages askew that just h...

What the hell?Let me first say I love Chuck P. I love his usually disturbing stories and weird characters. I don't mind the fact that he seems a little crazy, and I don't mind all of the sex he writes about. I also don't mind the gory/gross factor. I like him!This book 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 care at all about Buster, or his story. So I stopped reading...

WTF did I just read and why did I finish it? This book is a mish-mash of narrators, grossness, time travel, car crashes, a rabies plague, segregation and dull characters. I kept hoping it would improve and then it was just over. This story somewhat follows a dull-witted character named Buster or Rant (as he's better known) who gets off on catching rabies. His attraction to pain and rabies eventually leads to a rabies plague. The story is told from the various and far too many points of view of p...

This is the story of a small town hell raiser named Buster ’Rant’ Casey who did some slightly unusual things when he was growing up like collecting bucketfuls of his classmate’s teeth. Young Rant also angers more animals than Steve Irwin so that they’ll bite him and infect him with rabies which he deliberately spreads to his class mates. 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 and who get their kick...

I can't do it. I can't finish this book. Usually Palahniuk creates fairly unsympathetic characters, as in this book, and that I'm used to. Because it WORKS; the plot-lines of his books are always ridiculous in a totally fascinating way, which makes up for the stupid characters. However, Rant bored the fuck out of me. I tried. I read more than half and I do not care about this nutjob guy and his rabies and his slobbering all over the ladies, or the driving around in cars being obnoxious or whatev...

I'm not a Chuck P fan simply because he is "edgy" or because I get off on the so-called depravity of his often violent and sexual themes. I know a few folks like that. What I enjoyed most about this book 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 than any single testimony could be. (I'...