when are paris hilton, lindsay lohan, and nicole ritchie going to finally go away?
book review:
i finished reading chuck palahniuk’s latest novel “Rant”. i think the tag line is, the oral history of buster “rant” casey. something like that. overall, his best recent work. at the end, i didn’t feel cheated. while it does have some of the “chucky p staples” of story line – self destruction – it is not the main theme of the book and it is different than his other books. the writing style reminded me of “invisible monsters” mostly because the story is told in fragments and jumps around. at the same time it’s very different as there are not really flashbacks as in IM. the story is told through “interviews” with various characters which build the whole story. sometimes you feel quite lost, as it’s sometimes confusing and hard to remember who is talking and what they’re referring to. but in the end it all makes sense, and it does have an unexpected twist. i don’t think it’s a “mind fuck” moment like in IM or “survivor” or even “fight club” if you haven’t seen the movie, but it was still not where i thought things were going. the book jacket summary of the book makes it out to be very different than what it actually is. without ruining anything, the description makes it seem like it’s the story of the worlds most prolific serial killer and well…we’re not really talking about ted bundy, or jeffrey dahmer or anyone like that. toward the end it also is very reminiscent of the world of year zero…not quite as extreme, but hints of government conspiracy etc. so while i wouldn’t name this my favourite, that title still belongs to “invisible monsters”, i’d say it could possibly be 4th…DEFINITELY better than haunted. so for anyone who gave up on CP because of haunted, i’d suggest reading this one. it’s pretty decent.
i’m now reading “memoirs of a geisha”. it was one of the books i got when i went mooch crazy on bookmooch.com