Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey, (Paperback)

from blueslibrarian

This book is set up as an "oral history" of one Buster "Rant" Casey, with his fictional lives recounted through bursts of brief dialogue. Rant grows up in a small farming town and to breaks the tedium by being stung by snakes and insects. When Rant finally breaks free of his stifling childhood, h...

from chaosmogony

Another mind-blower from Palahniuk. The narrative is structured as an on-going interview with multiple POV characters, making it feel like you're reading the account of the protagonist's life without ever meeting him.

from tigerbuns

Great book. It's confusing and kind of prickly, introduces cartloads of weird but strangely convincing ideas, changes pace and shape at every other corner and turns out to be something completely different from what it seemed to be. I really liked it. It was full of weirdness and urgency, and fla...

from zenhead

I have read several of Chuck PPalahniuk's books, and found them all to be unique in their own right. "Rant," is no different. This is a story of a typical bizarre Palahniuk character, told in the form of an oral history. Palahniuk explains at the beginning that due to the nature of the fact that ...

from rocketjk

A fun, strange, imaginative wholly enjoyable science fictionish black comedy that becomes stranger and more surreal as you go along and the deeper levels of Palahniuk's concept are revealed. There are some extremely memorable characters here and I fairly raced though this. The ending, while entir...