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Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey (originale 2007; edizione 2008)

di 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.… (altro)

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Utente:	josephdante
Titolo:	Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey
Autori:	Chuck Palahniuk
Info:	Anchor (2008), Edition: 1st PAPERBACK, Paperback, 336 pages
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E se la realtà non fosse altro che una malattia?
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La gente rivendica i propri diritti sulle persone a cui vuole bene dandogli un nome diverso. Etichettandole come fossero roba loro.
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thingScore 52

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.

aggiunto da stephmo | modificaNew 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.

aggiunto da stephmo | modificaTime 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.

aggiunto da stephmo | modificaThe 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.

aggiunto da stephmo | modificaBoston 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.

aggiunto da stephmo | modificaThe 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.

aggiunto da stephmo | modificaThe 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.

aggiunto da stephmo | modificaNew 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.

aggiunto da stephmo | modificaUSA 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.

aggiunto da stephmo | modificaSan 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.

aggiunto da stephmo | modificaEntertainment 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."

aggiunto da stephmo | modificaSeattle 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."

aggiunto da stephmo | modificaAustin 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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