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Rant : an oral biography of Buster Casey (origineel 2007; editie 2007)

door Chuck Palahniuk

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Buster "Rant" Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, Rant Casey escapes from his small town home for the big city where he becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death, after which his friends gather the testimony needed to build an oral history of his short, violent life. With hilarity, horror, and blazing insight, Rant is a mind-bending vision of the future, as only Chuck Palahniuk could ever imagine.… (meer)

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Lid:	kohrmanmj
Titel:	Rant : an oral biography of Buster Casey
Auteurs:	Chuck Palahniuk
Info:	New York : Doubleday, c2007.
Verzamelingen:	Aan het lezen, Jouw bibliotheek
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So, this definitely wasn’t my favorite book by Palahniuk. To be fair, i feel like I feel like my inferior mind has missed the brilliance of his writing, because, let’s face it, his writing is use quite brilliant...but I really didn’t get this one. I was hooked in the beginning, enjoying the unique format of the story, laughing at the characters, slowing figuring bits and pieces out. Then BAM! The story takes this crazy turn and I’m left wondering wtf happened? It was weird how the whole story shifted more than halfway through the book!
So, anyhow, still a big fan of his work, just didn’t dig this one. It happens. Still feel like I missed something though. (

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jbrownleo | Mar 27, 2024 |

What did I just read??? It was a thought provoking, insane, confusing ride! (

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HauntedTaco13 | Dec 29, 2023 |

This book is like watching a car crash and I couldn’t stop rubbernecking. It was a *disaster* of a read. Sorry, Chuck. This is one of those stories that tries to be all cerebral and smart by making connections but all it ends up feeling like is a ton of random ideas that got shoved into a novel with a pretty cover. It had its fun moments, likable characters, some unique concepts? But everything feels rushed, out of place, and underdeveloped.

If Lullaby hadn’t been my first Palahniuk book I definitely would never have picked up another one. Good thing I’m in it for the morbid curiosity of these continual car crashes of books. (

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CozmicDotCom | Nov 22, 2023 |

My twentysomething nephews & nieces rant & rave about Chuck Palahniuk all the time so I decided to finally give one of his books a chance. After reading Rant with it's theme of youthful rebellion I now understand his appeal. A bit to much "out there" for me , but overall fairly entertaining stuff. (

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kevinkevbo | Jul 14, 2023 |

Buster Casey fue un asesino. Vivió al límite. Mató a tanta gente como pudo. Buster Casey Fue el líder de una banda que se dedicaba a estrellar coches y a acumular cadáveres y chatarra. Toda una fiesta. Buster Casey murió joven. y dejó huella. Ahora sus amigos y conocidos le recuerdan. nos cuentan su vida. Si quieres saber quién fue realmente Buster Casey. lee esta novela de Chuck Palahniuk. Puede que te divierta. puede que te repugne. pero difícilmente olvidarás las iniciales B. C. y su rostro de asesino.

Natt90 | Feb 24, 2023 |

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At its best, Palahniuk’s prose has the rat-a-tat immediacy of a bravura spoken word performance. When he misses, which he does often in “Rant,” it’s just overcooked and indulgent.

toegevoegd door stephmo | bewerkNew York Times, Field Maloney (Jun 3, 2007)

An altogether more complex novel than that earlier faux-Nietzschean call to arms, this ‘Rant’ is anything but.

toegevoegd door stephmo | bewerkTime Out London, Adam Lee Davies (May 25, 2007)

His latest novel, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey, is even more ambitious, but here Palahniuk's swirl of characters and plotlines never gels, and the story lurches dangerously toward incoherence.

toegevoegd door stephmo | bewerkThe Washington Post, Joe Hill (May 20, 2007)

Reading the latest Chuck Palahniuk novel is an invariably gripping, always disturbing, and -- more and more often -- ultimately disappointing experience.

toegevoegd door stephmo | bewerkBoston Globe, Kevin O'Kelly (May 16, 2007)

There is no question that Palahniuk is an important writer, with a huge popular following. But as his conceits grow ever more ludicrous, his books become more like art-statements than novels. The plot of Rant is so overheated it approaches self-parody, and occasionally trivialises what are clearly serious concerns.

toegevoegd door stephmo | bewerkThe Independent, Matt Thorne (May 13, 2007)

Rant is the novel you might expect if Philip K Dick met Dennis Johnson and they took crystal meth together and spent a week telling one another everything they knew about epidemiology, economics, cars, coin-collecting, generation warfare, spiders and the physics of time.

toegevoegd door stephmo | bewerkThe Guardian, M. John Harrison (May 12, 2007)

Mr. Palahniuk’s best books really do have mind-blowing twists and turns, to the point where the reader walks away from them in an altered state. They offer entrée into all-encompassing strange new worlds. But “Rant” lacks that kind of vision. Instead it carries a whiff of desperation, as if Mr. Palahniuk had ratcheted the fantasy stakes too high and strip-mined the same parts of his vast, fertile imagination too often.

toegevoegd door stephmo | bewerkNew York Times, Janet Maslin (May 7, 2007)

Palahniuk, usually in such complete control of his considerable narrative gifts, falters badly here. It's the first time this voice of cultural apocalypse sounds gratuitously ugly and like a pale imitation of itself.

toegevoegd door stephmo | bewerkUSA Today, David Daley (May 7, 2007)

Chuck Palahniuk, author of "Fight Club," may have one of the strangest brains on the planet. There's a place deep inside the subconscious that understands pain and joy, but not time, and it's the same place where snot and spit, those gross-out childish bodily fluids, are precious.

toegevoegd door stephmo | bewerkSan Francisco Chronicle, Laurel Maury (May 6, 2007)

Is the writer searching for some soul in the dank scuzz of American culture — or does he just like getting really dirty? Who knows? That's Palahniuk for you too.

toegevoegd door stephmo | bewerkEntertainment Weekly, Jeff Jensen (May 4, 2007)

In "Rant," Chuck Palahniuk adopts the oral biography format used by George Plimpton for "Truman Capote" and Jean Stein for "Edie" in his study of Buster Casey, a "naturopathic serial killer." This style, you would think, might lend an air of authenticity to the story. Instead, Palahniuk's eighth novel is a high-minded version of "South Park."

toegevoegd door stephmo | bewerkSeattle Times, Mark Lindquist (Apr 27, 2007)

It's unfortunate that Palahniuk chooses to spike his compelling mix of two-fisted tales of near-future eccentrics with what amounts to an inelegant hack of Robert Heinlein's "All You Zombies."

toegevoegd door stephmo | bewerkAustin Chronicle, Wayne Alan Brenner (Apr 13, 2007)

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Buster "Rant" Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, Rant Casey escapes from his small town home for the big city where he becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death, after which his friends gather the testimony needed to build an oral history of his short, violent life. With hilarity, horror, and blazing insight, Rant is a mind-bending vision of the future, as only Chuck Palahniuk could ever imagine.

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