richardkmart 's review for:

Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk

4.0

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I liked this book more and more as it went on. The format was fantastic for the story. If you're going to have such a twisty book then filling it with completely unreliable narrators makes everything waaay more fun.
If this book was separateness into subjects then there were a few subjects that I really didn't enjoy. Party Crashing felt ridiculous and annoying. It could just be that I hate Echo and Shot, but I don't think so. Some of the stuff in Middleton was absolutely disgusting. There was actually a lot of disgusting crap in this book. The rabies stuff was fun and the twists and theories that certain characters had were the highlights.
Spoilers follow (they will ruin the book if you haven't read it, ask me if you want some light spoilers and I'll help you with that.):

Spoiler

Let's get right down to it. I firmly believe that Chet is Rant. I know this is what we're supposed to believe, so it's probably not true, or at least not completely true, but that's just how I feel. It's possible that they're the same character from different timelines or something like that, but that's a can of infinite that I don't want to open. I'm less sure about Green. I want to believe that he's Chet when he's old and crazy, but it doesn't seem likely and it makes the book more than a little screwed up
Also I don't think Charles Casey, the one who killed Echo's parents was Chet. Maybe it was Green... I'm more than a little confused about that.