Shannon's review of Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk
Shannon's review
rating:
bookshelves:
festival-of-suck
recommended for:
the drooling rabid
status:
Read in June, 2008
I can't do it. I can't finish this book. Usually Palahniuk creates fairly unsympathetic characters, as in this book, and that I'm used to. Becasuse it WORKS; the plotlines of his books are always ridiculous in a totally fascinating way, which makes up for the stupid characters. However, Rant bored the fuck out of me. I tried. I read more than half and I do not care about this nutjob guy and his rabies and his slobbering all over the ladies, or the driving around in cars being obnoxious or whatever other bullshit he's engaging in. Seriusly, the ONE nice thing I can say about Palahniuk's writing is that it's amusing. It's all about as deep as a kiddie-pool (FILLED WITIH PEE) but at least it's interesting. So this book fails in the one arena that Palahniuk is totally capable of: being mordibly amusing.
Also: in the first like.. 10 pages or so.. he managed to work in: used maxi pads, black widow bites, rabies... I don't know, I forget now, but I'm pretty sure semen and excrement was i...more
Also: in the first like.. 10 pages or so.. he managed to work in: used maxi pads, black widow bites, rabies... I don't know, I forget now, but I'm pretty sure semen and excrement was i...more
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Haha, awesome. I loved the hell out of this book, but I wasn't completely sold on it until about two hundred and fifty pages in.
Dammit! I don't think I got that far. I'm sure there is SOMETHING redeeming about this.. I lacked the patience to find out.
Also, what is Palahniuk's obsession with being a sick fuck?!
Yeah that's his shtick! Which is a shame because I think the sick fuck stuff is the least interesting thing about his writing, and when he gets away from it- or at least does something else at the same time- he can do really good things. But yeah, I don't blame you for putting it down.
This was a really hard book for me to grasp. I started this book thinking this was more along the "true story" lines, so about half way through I could not understand why nothing made any real sense. I personally loved this book when I finished it. There are so many things to me that still don't make sense, so I am going to try reading it again.
I also don't blame you for putting it down, it's a hard read. Difficult to follow and really nothing makes sense until about 3/4 of the way through. I thought about putting it down several times, but something kept me reading, and I am glad I did. I really did like it.
I love your honesty. You made me laugh...so thanks!I loved Fight Club. This one was a lot of creativity and then, well, so what? Fight Club had a complicated and truly revolutionary point to it. If anyone wants to enlighten me about Rant, please read my review and comment, because I just don't see the point. Yeah, I got it, I understood the plot and actually enjoyed the read, but again, so what? Lots of books are clever and pointless. Clever's just not enough for me anymore.
