I just received an ARC of Rant by Chuck Palahniuk!!!

[Jonny Z]

soooo excited. this has made my week.

i'm pissed that I have to go out to dinner tonight, otherwise, i'd probably read the whole thing tonight. but anyway, expect a big ol' review by this weekend :)

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385517874.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V46017538_.jpg

[Cth]

Cool! Looking forward to hearing what you thought of it.

[EximiusVir]

lucky bastard

[Buk Was Right]

please to be excusing, but i'm not hip to the lingo...

ARC?

oh wait. i'm using my powers of deduction. ADVANCED READER COPY?

shit. i didn't even realize that he had one on the way. what's it about? when't it out for the rest of us?

[Fake Pat]

I hate you.

Sooooooooooooooooooooooo much.

[Jonny Z]

please to be excusing, but i'm not hip to the lingo...

ARC?

oh wait. i'm using my powers of deduction. ADVANCED READER COPY?

shit. i didn't even realize that he had one on the way. what's it about? when't it out for the rest of us?

Comes out May 1st.

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385517874


ABOUT THIS BOOK

“Like most people I didn’t meet Rant Casey until after he was dead. That’s how it works for most celebrities: After they croak, their circle of friends just explodes.…”


Rant is the mind-bending new novel from Chuck Palahniuk, the literary provocateur responsible for such books as the generation-defining classic Fight Club and the pedal-to-the-metal horrorfest Haunted. It takes the form of an oral history of one Buster “Rant” Casey, who may or may not be the most efficient serial killer of our time.


“What ‘Typhoid Mary’ Mallon was to typhoid, what Gaetan Dugas was to AIDS, and Liu Jian-lun was to SARS, Buster Casey would become for rabies.”


A high school rebel who always wins (and a childhood murderer?), Rant Casey escapes from his small hometown of Middleton for the big city. He becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. On appointed nights participants recognize one another by such designated car markings as “Just Married” toothpaste graffiti and then stalk and crash into each other. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death, after which his friends gather testimony needed to build an oral history of his short, violent life. Their collected anecdotes explore the possibility that his saliva caused a silent urban plague of rabies and that he found a way to escape the prison house of linear time.…


“The future you have, tomorrow, won’t be the same future you had, yesterday.”
—Rant Casey


Expect hilarity, horror, and blazing insight into the desperate and surreal contemporary human condition as only Chuck Palahniuk can deliver it. He's the postmillennial Jonathan Swift, the visionary to watch to learn what's —uh-oh—coming next.

[Buk Was Right]

heh... my last name's casey...

[Andrew j]

I work in a bookstore and the ARC of books like this are always a bitch to get hold of. You pretty much have to work in recieving and be the one who opens the fucking box or it's gone.

Gotten lucky a few times though.

So in other words, I'm jealous you fuck you.

[Pat Shatner]

Bastard! Go read and review!

[trevor hale]

I hope it's good. I like Palahniuk, but I haven't even been able to finish his last two books, DIARY or HAUNTED. They both just bored me too much.

[Masculine Todd]

Anything with Palahniuk's name on it is gold. I can't wait to see your thoughts.

PS: Why did you get an ARC?

[Jew Mafia]

Awesome. I heard Chuck tell one of the stories from Rant during his last tour, I'm looking forward to the book. Let me know how it is.

[Masculine Todd]

Awesome. I heard Chuck tell one of the stories from Rant during his last tour, I'm looking forward to the book. Let me know how it is.

I was at his tour in '04 when he told "Guts". That was...disturbing.

[Jonny Z]

Anything with Palahniuk's name on it is gold. I can't wait to see your thoughts.

PS: Why did you get an ARC?

i cannot reveal my source :shifty:

i've seen him live twice and got his autograph once... can't wait for him to tour again!

[Simps]

Lucky bastard. The only ARC I ever got was some horrible Freak Show book I had to read for work.