Rant (2007) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Buster "Rant" Casey: Main character living out in nowhereville becomes the famous patient 0 for a rabies outbreak.
• Chester Casey: Rant's dad
• Irene Casey: Rant's mom
• Echo Lawrence: Rant's girlfriend
• Green Taylor Simms: don't want to spoil the story. Just call him a historian.
• Shot Dunyun: Rant's friend
• Neddy Nelson: newbee party crasher
• Rant: Add a description of this character.
• Phoebe Truffeau
• Chet Casey
• Middleton
• Buster Casey
• Grandma Esther
• Margot
• Lynn Coffey
• Todd Rutz
• Tina Something
• Jarrell Moore
• Bernie
• Karl Waxman
• Lew Terry
• Gregg Denney
• Lowell Richards
• Hattie
• Sean Gardner
• Mr. Wyland
• Dr. David Schmidt
• Sandy
• Edna Perry
• Denise Gardner
• Glenda Hendersen
• Curtis Dean Fields
• Dr. Christopher Bing
• Allan Blayne
• Dr. Erin Shea
• Danny Perry

Quotes edit see section history

• “How the future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday.”

• “Here's on night when I control the chaos. I participate with the doom I can't control. I'm dancing with the inevitable, and I survive. My regular little dress rehearsal.”

  Shot Dunyun

• “Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.”

• “Everyone wants to feel special—attain a special status among their peers—but not too special. Most kids only want to be special the same way their friends are special.”

• “You only ever is in the eyes of other folks.”

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• “Life’s greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.”

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• In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it’s stunning how little imagination most people display.

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• “Some people are just born human. The rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.”

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• How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

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• Money you don’t work to earn, you spend very quickly.

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• The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic system. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy.

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• “You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.”

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• Andy Warhol was wrong. In the future, people won’t be famous for fifteen minutes. No, in the future, everyone will sit next to someone famous for at least fifteen minutes. Typhoid Mary or Ted Bundy or Sharon Tate. History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.

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• “The big reason why folks leave a small town,” Rant used to say, “is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.” Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Carlo Tiengo
• France
• Africa
• Canada
• Easter Bunny

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Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

• Bodily fluids: There is detailed explanation of the transmission of rabies through oral sex and of a trash pile in the town full of bloody feminine products and assorted human waste.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Chuck Palahniuk (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.54

Notes for Parents edit see section history

This novel is very graphic and might be too much to handle for some. Mild language and sexually explicit scenes.

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers › Psychological & Suspense
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary

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