About this title: In this fictional oral history, Buster RRantS Casey's friends, enemies, admirers, detractors, and relations have their say about him--an evil character who may or may not be the most efficient serial killer of our time.
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780385517874ISBN:0385517874
Description: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 9780385517874. Dust jacket has slight wrinkling to top of spine. No marks. Delivery confirmation number provided.; 1.2 x 8.4 x 5.9 Inches; “Like most people I didn't meet Rant Casey until after he was dead. That's how it works for most celebrities: After they croak, their circle of friends just explodes. …”Rant is the mind-bending new novel from Chuck Palahniuk, the literary provocateur responsible for such books as the generation-defining classic Fight ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 2007-05-01
ISBN-13:9780385517874ISBN:0385517874
Description: Good. Dust jacket has lite rubbing, mild marking, and lite corner/edge wear. Pages are clean and neat. Decent reader copy.2007 Edition, Hardcover. (L) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780307275837ISBN:0307275833
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780385517874ISBN:0385517874
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Hard Cover--FINE/FINE--Book and dust jacket are clean and bright--318 pages. Stated First Edition w/full # string and original price of of 24.95 present. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780385517874ISBN:0385517874
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. A novel in the form of an oral biography of one Buster Casey. Stated first edition, clean, tight, unmarked, probably unread; jacket has price intact. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780385517874ISBN:0385517874
Description: As New in As New jacket. From jacket flap: "Expect hilarity, horror, and blazing insight into the desperate and surreal contemporary human condition as only Chuck Palahniuk can deliver it. " 319 pp. A tight clean copy. Black cover with gilt lettering is as new. Jacket is as new. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover; Fourth Printing
ISBN-13:9780385517874ISBN:0385517874
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Doubleday, 2007. 1st Edition/4th Printing. Fine Book in Fine Dust Jacket. Price Intact. Overall, a clean and tight copy to add to a collection or read and enjoy. Dust Jacket protected with a new archival cover. Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. read more
Description: New. New AudioBook. Factory Sealed. Gift Quality. 9-CD set. We fully guarantee all our audiobooks. We pack with care and ship promptly via USPS First Class Mail with Delivery Confirmation. read more
Edition: F First Edition, First Printing
Binding: H Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, New York
Date Published: 2007
Description: Fine in J Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall First edition, first printing in fine condition, looks and feels new, no names or other markings, dustjacket unclipped and in mylar protector. read more
"I must be jaded, because I didn't feel the disgust or outrage of other reviewers at Rant Casey sniffing maxi pads and condoms (actually, I had to think hard to remember what they could be talking about being so "gross-out" and "obscene"). But then, this is the third Palahniuk novel I've read.
Like his others, it's a page-turner and a relatively quick read, although deceptively dense. Also like his others, frequently funny. And even more so than his others, often incoherent or slapped together. See, Chuck, I can write incomplete sentences too. The book's two big "twists" -- one a futuristic technology the characters reference obliquely for half the novel before you find out what it is, the other an even more bizarre metaphysical concept also hinted at continually -- both seem tangential in their discussion when Palahniuk finally gets around to explaining them. He seems more interested in the ideas themselves than actually weaving them into the plot of the story he's telling.
I enjoyed reading this while trapped on planes and in airports for one very long day, but I can't say it's as good a novel as Fight Club or even Choke. Fun, but lacking in craft."
"Rant is a thoroughly enjoyable piece of classic Palahniuk viewed through the lens of the an oral history which makes it slightly more disjointed due to the multiple viewpoints than his previous works albeit somehow more believable.
If you enjoyed any of Chuck's works you will like it. I'd put it behind a few of his others but not by too far."
"Never read Chuck. Seen Fight Club of which he authored, but never read him. Let's just say not sure I will read him again. Everything is raw. To be expected. Violence is raw. Sex is raw. Construction of every sentence is raw. Let's just say NC-17 is probably the correct rating. Over-the-top raw. I enjoy raw but this at times is just pure smut and constant hyperbolic literary antics that I can do without.
But, is there anything here worthwhile....yes, Chuck feels that modern life is boring and he tries to deal with that boredom with outlandish stories. He hates the epidemic of sameness that saturates American modernity. As the main hero, anti-hero, says in his flirtations with death and disease, both the giving of it an the taking it in, "This is what church should feel like..."
Maybe the goal of the nihilist, of which he is, is to experience what religion offers without religion and does so with the reality of death pressing upon each moment. I don't know...maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. I get the feeling Chuck doesn't either, but no doubt his yarn's do resonate with the post-everything generation. Even at times in my own heart. Regardless, the occasional resonance is not worth reading in whole.
Maybe pick up a copy or two and grab the occasional one-liner out of his books. No doubt his sentences pack punch, and a few quite memorable, but rather than the thrill of the fight this story makes me feel like I just got rabbit punched and would rather sit in the corner and cough and puke then finish the story. But I finished, and I doubt that I am better because of it."
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