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Rant
by Chuck Palahniuk
2007 review:
Alright, the new book by my favorite author. This book is told in the style of oral interviews with different people, all focusing on telling the story of a boy named Buster Casey, who was said to have started a rabies epidemic/plague in America.
I wasn't exactly fond of the style of this book-being told by so many different people, it was hard to love any of them. There were so many times in the book that I also wondered where all these weird details were going-so I dare say, a few times, this book lost a bit of my interest. About 3/4 through the book I was ready to say it was the worst Chuck book I had read, even though it was by no means a bad book. Of course, I didn't have enough faith in him. As soon as I made that comment, the story really started to get interesting, really started to make sense, and really started getting good. Once again, it has a twisted interesting ending, in many sorts (I knew one of the bigger "surprises" before it was pointed out, but it's still fun to see it work itself full circle-and I hadn't figured it out to the full extent.)
Chuck's books have started to become very...BIG. As in, the implications for the society we live in are big, and the plots are very deep, layered. His books used to be about characters and now they're about the world, in a crazy way.
His books used to be driven by characters, and this one was driven by plot. I liked the character driven ones more-but this one was still pretty amazing by the time I was done with it. It's just a book that needs to be stuck with until the end, or else you'll miss A LOT. Though I do think it was kind of a mix of Fight Club and The Butterfly Effect put together in one crazy plot.
Alright, the new book by my favorite author. This book is told in the style of oral interviews with different people, all focusing on telling the story of a boy named Buster Casey, who was said to have started a rabies epidemic/plague in America.
I wasn't exactly fond of the style of this book-being told by so many different people, it was hard to love any of them. There were so many times in the book that I also wondered where all these weird details were going-so I dare say, a few times, this book lost a bit of my interest. About 3/4 through the book I was ready to say it was the worst Chuck book I had read, even though it was by no means a bad book. Of course, I didn't have enough faith in him. As soon as I made that comment, the story really started to get interesting, really started to make sense, and really started getting good. Once again, it has a twisted interesting ending, in many sorts (I knew one of the bigger "surprises" before it was pointed out, but it's still fun to see it work itself full circle-and I hadn't figured it out to the full extent.)
Chuck's books have started to become very...BIG. As in, the implications for the society we live in are big, and the plots are very deep, layered. His books used to be about characters and now they're about the world, in a crazy way.
His books used to be driven by characters, and this one was driven by plot. I liked the character driven ones more-but this one was still pretty amazing by the time I was done with it. It's just a book that needs to be stuck with until the end, or else you'll miss A LOT. Though I do think it was kind of a mix of Fight Club and The Butterfly Effect put together in one crazy plot.