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3.72 AVERAGE
books like this are the reason i don't need to do drugs...
Rant is the kind of book that leaves you wanting to go back and reread it from the start because you've missed so much. Written in an oral history fashion - as if the author interviewed a variety of people to compose the biography of Buster "Rant" Casey - Rant is full of distinctive characters, to say the least.
This book will take you from moments of hilarity to moments of deep sympathy for the (sometimes) intensely sad characters. There will be times that you are disgusted by the relentless descriptions Palahniuk heaps on you, but you will keep reading. The book is that captivating.
The various dialogues and stories start to coalesce about halfway through and as the story really starts to make sense, you're alternately horrified and fascinated by it. The story makes sense, but it shouldn't.
I'll definitely be reading this one again. In the meantime, it now resides on my library shelf reserved for my favorite books.
This book will take you from moments of hilarity to moments of deep sympathy for the (sometimes) intensely sad characters. There will be times that you are disgusted by the relentless descriptions Palahniuk heaps on you, but you will keep reading. The book is that captivating.
The various dialogues and stories start to coalesce about halfway through and as the story really starts to make sense, you're alternately horrified and fascinated by it. The story makes sense, but it shouldn't.
I'll definitely be reading this one again. In the meantime, it now resides on my library shelf reserved for my favorite books.
Palahniuk is such a sick weirdo, I don't know how I'm still as surprised & shocked as I always am as his books take some strange turn toward the end that I never saw coming. The manner this book was written I thought I might hate but I ended up loving it, though it did leave me craving more character relationships. True to its writing style, a billion characters were introduced which got confusing when you were focusing on just speeding through the action of the novel. Per usual, Palahniuk created some terrifying future & put so much work & history into the background that you finish the book slightly terrified for tomorrow.
This book confused me. It was interesting, but I ended up more confused as the book wore on. Maybe it's because I'm sleep-deprived. Maybe it's because this wasn't a typical take on time travel. Where the hell does Chuck P. get his ideas?
Perfect time to re-read this book. Epidemic! Government curfews! Time travel? Still one of my fav reads.
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
What? A book simultaneously about the environment, fascist politics, class struggle, public health, counter culture, and somehow also nothing? True to Palahniuk, it was weird, excessively violent, and confusing. It’s also probably the most sci-fi of his novels I’ve read so far, but you’d never know that until you were 100+ pages in. From there each 50 or so pages just gets exponentially more confusing and intertwined until the conclusion of the book is absolutely unrecognizable from how it started out. But I loved the format of an oral retailing, and how we hold certain levels of trustworthiness to people we know nothing about based on a few characteristics we’re fed. The one thing I’ll definitely be thinking about for awhile is the idea that they’ll some day look back at us thinking time is linear the same was we think about people who used to think the earth was flat…
This book is fantastic! The oral biography style is not a gimmick, it is a great writing style. Be ready for twists, turns and the standard Palahniuk irreverence.