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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Sì/forse alla biografia orale: è uno stile diverso rispetto agli altri libri di Palahniuk che ho letto e crea in alcuni capitoli un bell'effetto di canto e controcanto.
No al resto: ci si anestetizza anche al disgusto e c'è troppa carne al fuoco. All'ennesima dettagliata descrizione di un'azione sconvolgente sbadigli, di fronte a un mondo che più vai avanti più diventa un grottesco cartone animato inarchi un sopracciglio, e quando tutti i pezzi si incastrano alla perfezione (come volevasi dimostrare) chiudi il libro senza pensarci più.
No al resto: ci si anestetizza anche al disgusto e c'è troppa carne al fuoco. All'ennesima dettagliata descrizione di un'azione sconvolgente sbadigli, di fronte a un mondo che più vai avanti più diventa un grottesco cartone animato inarchi un sopracciglio, e quando tutti i pezzi si incastrano alla perfezione (come volevasi dimostrare) chiudi il libro senza pensarci più.
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Abandoned mid-read (very early on, in fact). There's something pointlessly grotesque about Rant that feels really gratuitous and just for the shock factor. I know it's early on, but the story lacks substance, relying instead on the contrived "oral history" scaffolding. In fact, I'd go so far as to say the story is juvenile and clearly the product of a privileged white dude. Chucky P, you're letting me down.
adventurous
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
So thrilled that, while it has certainly aged from when I first read it, Rant more than lived up to my memories of how it seizes my imagination. An terribly effective use of the oral history format.
I don't love Palahnuik, but I find his stuff pretty unputdownable. I picked this one up yesterday morning before a flight and finished it last night. Like a lot of Chuck's work, it's designed to be read at a break-nack pace. It's a multi-vocal narrative in bite-sized little chunks--an oral history of the deceased maniac/trail-blazing time-traveller/rabies superspreader Rant Casey. Like most Chuck (again), it's also so full of the bizarre and deranged that a summary is both unnecessary and impossible. What I like best about his stuff is that each story seems to have a moment of simple, fragile beauty tucked into the ridiculousness. In Choke it's the rock-stacking that ends it; here it's Rant's mother painting patterns and secrets onto white eggs with white wax--secrets that then reveal themselves only when the egg is dyed. It sits like an island of peace admidst all the chaotic, Palahnuikian, nihilistic gnarliness.