04.27.07 5:00 AM CDT
• Books
• Robert DeSalvo
Fans of author Chuck Palahniuk call themselves The Cult—an appropriate title for readers who connect with his unique mix of surreal horror, morbid humor and insights into the twisted modern psyche. Called the “postmillennial Jonathan Swift,” Palahniuk has written eight novels including Choke, Fight Club, Haunted and his latest, Rant (cover pictured at left), which we dare any filmmaker to try to slap on the big screen. So far only director David Fincher has been able to capture Palahniuk’s vision on celluloid with Fight Club. Rant continues the author’s impressive streak of subversive, brilliant, and completely unfilmable works with an often-hilarious story about the oral history of patient zero. Here is the official synopsis:“Rant takes the form of a fictional oral history of Buster ‘Rant’ Casey, in which an assortment of friends, enemies, admirers, detractors and relations have their say about this evil character, who may or may not be the most efficient serial killer of our time.
Buster Casey was every small kid born in a small town, searching for real thrills in a world of video games and action/adventure movies. The high school rebel who always wins (and a childhood murderer?), Rant Casey escapes from his hometown of Middleton for the big city and becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing, where on designated nights the participants recognize each other by dressing their cars with tin-can tails, ‘Just Married’ toothpaste graffiti, and other refuse, then look for designated markings in order to stalk and crash into each other. It’s in this violent, late-night hunting game that Casey meets three friends. After his spectacular death, these friends gather the testimonies needed to build an oral history of his short life. Their collected anecdotes explore the charges that his saliva infected hundreds and caused a silent, urban plague of rabies.”
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