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Rant - Chuck Palahniuk

This book had given me the biggest mind fuck ever. It took me two weeks to get halfway through and then another 4 hours to finish it when the story went all crazy. Amazing book!

Upvote for Rant.

^Also, ^it's ^Palahniuk. ^Sorry.

Sirens of Titan makes me feel very not dead inside.


Rant by Palahniuk might also fit the bill, it's dark and weird and some sci-fi elements.


I just read The Dog Stars, it was very good.


Maybe this thread from a while back will have some good suggestions for you.

Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk

I like it. The goal of the "Ouroboros predestination paradox" was to ensure that the human race couldn't die out if he was constantly doing this loop in time. The "new-lister" is prime Lister's "Son", so is very likely to make the same choices.

FYI, read Rant

edit: I broke reddit's url formatting. the link is here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros_(Red_Dwarf)

What would you consider airport novels or shitty magazines?

I'm think People or Entertainment Weekly for the magazines, but the last books I bought at an airport were Chuck Palahnuik's Rant and one of Jeff Shaara's World War Two historical fiction pieces.

My favorite Rant is by Chuck Palahniuk.

...you should read Rant.

Apparently this book is non-fiction.

http://www.amazon.com/Rant-Oral-Biography-Buster-Casey/dp/0307275833

If you spend time in the webcomics part of the internet you probably heard of Machine of Death when it was published a couple years back. If you don't, you probably never heard of it, unless you heard Glenn Beck complaining that this book kept one of his books from debuting at #1.


The book is a collection of short stories that were inspired by a Dinosaur Comics webcomic that fans wanted the author to make happen. Notable figures from across the internet, as well as some random authors, each wrote a short story based only on that comic (essentially, that a machine somehow existed that would tell you in very few words how you would die, but not when or where). Every story is accompanied by a single amazing illustration from a different artist.

What is so cool about the book is that every author worked from the same original but with no communication, so you get these amazingly unique interpretations. Many are sad, but some are happy and a few are laugh out loud funny. I read it during a cross country trip and absolutely lost myself in it for the better part of the trip.


(On a side note, a few people are recommending Chuck Pahalniuk. His style will engross you, hold you tight, and then hold your head underwater until you can't breath. He regularly has people pass out at the line "corn and peanuts" when he reads a particular short story to groups. If you pick one of his books, go with one where the characters do a lot of the story telling, it adds so many layers of depth and gives you some needed diversity in prose. Rant or Haunted I would say are hands down his best books, despite the fact that Fightclub and Choke were made into movies.)

You may like this.

doesn't black widow venom do this, or was that just the plot of Rant?

You should read the book Rant by Chuck Palahniuk! The main character is a bizarre guy who develops the same heightened sense in a weird way.

Thanks! You're missing the close parentheses on the url though

and for others I found this link/synopsis more informational

How'd you like the book though, might read it over the summer, seems really different

If you like that type of book (told by different POV), I would recommend Rant by Chuck Palahniuk. Not a children's novel though.
https://www.amazon.com/Rant-Oral-Biography-Buster-Casey/dp/0307275833

LPT: be Chuck Palahniuk