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Rant

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32 feature instances
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Rant	comment	Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey is a novel by Chuck Palahniuk in the form of an oral biography. It covers the life and death of Buster Landru "Rant" Casey through a series of contradictory firsthand accounts, each of which usually mean at least three different things, most of which appear shallow, misinformed or even downright absurdist until The Reveal.James Franco is planning on making a movie version.
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Rant / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
Rant / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: The book is a fictional oral biography of... well, that's just it. He's an interesting character, but what we're supposed to think is significant about Buster Casey changes rapidly. There's a brief mention early on of a rabies epidemic, but by the end it's revealed that he is his own adopted father, and biological father, and grandfather, and great-grandfather, and the villain, via car accident induced time travel. In addition, it's not until an offhand remark by a character about a third of the way into the book about ports in the back of people's heads that you realize it's a sci-fi story set in the future.
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Rant / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Rant / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Many minor characters consistently ramble about grand conspiracies, paranormal activities and seemingly nonexistent technologies that may lead the reader to ignore them. Most of them are spot on. There's a big example early on, when one of the minor characters goes on about a conspiracy theory involving Jack the Ripper time-traveling to become his own father.
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Rant / int_2487dbf0	type	Vomit Chain Reaction
Rant / int_2487dbf0	comment	Vomit Chain Reaction: How Rant got his nickname.
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Rant / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Rant / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: The testimonies are given after Rant Casey's death.
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Rant / int_3d5377e5	type	First-Person Peripheral Narrator
Rant / int_3d5377e5	comment	First-Person Peripheral Narrator: The story is told as a series of interviews of people acquainted with the protagonist in various ways. Possibly partially subverted in that one contributor is all but explicitly stated to be a version of the protagonist after time travel and The Slow Path factor in.
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Rant / int_462eee5d	type	My Own Grampa
Rant / int_462eee5d	comment	My Own Grampa: By the conclusion of the narrative, it's revealed that three characters are the same person from different timelines, one of which has been elevated to a superhuman level of power by raping his own mother and becoming a walking, breathing Time Paradox, and the other two trying to stop this from happening.
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Rant / int_476a08e3	type	Women's Mysteries
Rant / int_476a08e3	comment	Women's Mysteries: The title character gets outraged that girls can excuse themselves from class by claiming to have "cramps". He later fights for boys to get a similar treatment by having a "situation" (=boners!).
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Rant / int_5e260ea6	type	Conveniently an Orphan
Rant / int_5e260ea6	comment	Conveniently an Orphan: More and more characters appear to be orphans as the story unfolds. Although it may simply be themselves returning to the past to kill them to achieve immortality.
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Rant / int_614127a5	type	That Liar Lies
Rant / int_614127a5	comment	That Liar Lies: Speakers occasionally accuse each other of lying for selfish reasons.
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Rant / int_6afefa62	type	My Girl Is a Slut
Rant / int_6afefa62	comment	My Girl Is a Slut / My Girl Is Not a Slut : Played around with very complexly with Echo. She is not a slut, but she makes a living off pretending to be one, telling her clients a story of sexual abuse and exploitation so horrible that they can't bring themselves to have sex with her and keep her on the payroll out of pity.
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Rant / int_6ef09297	type	Masquerade
Rant / int_6ef09297	comment	Masquerade: As it turns out, the story takes place in the dystopian future where urban dwellers are separated into two social classes, the Daytimers and the Nighttimers, the latter's lifestyle involving demolition derbies known as Party Crashing.
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Rant / int_715704e5	type	Jigsaw Puzzle Plot
Rant / int_715704e5	comment	Jigsaw Puzzle Plot: The story is told from several different viewpoints all at once (often contradicting each other) by way of having the side characters interviewed after the fact. Several different ways of putting this puzzle together are possible.
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Rant / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Rant / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: Boosting, the Daytimers, the Nighttimers and Party Crashing. Everything Neddy Nelson says. Reporting for Graphic Traffic, this is Tina Something...
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Rant / int_79c34029	type	The Nose Knows
Rant / int_79c34029	comment	The Nose Knows: Rant has a supernatural sense of smell, allowing him to divine people's health from their scent, and being able to be able to identify women by [[the scent of their menstrual blood.]]
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Rant / int_86e2d67b	type	Compound-Interest Time Travel Gambit
Rant / int_86e2d67b	comment	Compound-Interest Time Travel Gambit: Green Taylor Simms accumulates superhuman powers by recursively raping his mother in the past, with the time-loop making him stronger each time it completes.
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Rant / int_8cd3d091	type	Repetitive Name
Rant / int_8cd3d091	comment	Repetitive Name: Echo Lawrence's father was named Larry. She points this out and seems annoyed at the constant jokes, but her nickname takes on an interesting light.
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Rant / int_a95961ec	type	KidAnova
Rant / int_a95961ec	comment	Kidanova: Rant did everyone as a kid. Everyone. Girls in his class, at least one teacher...and your mom. Really, he did his friend's mom.
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Rant / int_ad22fa80	type	Apocalyptic Log
Rant / int_ad22fa80	comment	Apocalyptic Log: It is subtly implied that the setting used to be real, before the Historians started changing everything. As in, this world being described was ours, but it changed to the reality we know and never noticed, just like we won't notice when it happens again.
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Rant / int_b15f2cdb	type	Expospeak
Rant / int_b15f2cdb	comment	Expospeak: One third of the way in, an entire chapter is dedicated to Shot Dunyan explaining boosted peaks. It's at this point that the novel becomes science fiction.
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Rant / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Rant / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Echo Lawrence is notably absent from this (Although it is said in the audiobook that she is "missing and presumed immortal").
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Rant / int_b97f8642	type	Razor Apples
Rant / int_b97f8642	comment	Razor Apples: The protagonist's mother puts things like ceramic beads and tacks in all the food she cooks so that the people who are eating it have to eat it very slowly and carefully, and thus actually get a chance to enjoy the flavor, not just wolf it down.
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Rant / int_c1771513	type	No Longer with Us
Rant / int_c1771513	comment	No Longer with Us: Inverted. Rant's not dead. He's just in the past trying to stop himself from killing his mother.
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Rant / int_cd2cf2e3	type	Typhoid Mary
Rant / int_cd2cf2e3	comment	Typhoid Mary: Rant contracts rabies and then causes an epidemic that inadvertently leads to a Zombie Apocalypse.
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Rant / int_ce27dc3f	type	Protagonist Title
Rant / int_ce27dc3f	comment	Protagonist Title: One-Word Title nickname-style.
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Rant / int_cfbbd075	type	Porn Stash
Rant / int_cfbbd075	comment	Porn Stash: Echo Lawrence is Rant's "porn buddy" who will remove his porn stash in the case of his death before his family can find it. Echo is Rant's girlfriend.
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Rant / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Rant / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: Protagonist Title nickname-style.
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Rant / int_d355ba37	type	Turned Against Their Masters
Rant / int_d355ba37	comment	Turned Against Their Masters: Rant ends up using all of the information given to him by Green Taylor Simms to try to stop him from raping his own mother. He arrives a few minutes too late to change events.
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Rant / int_e04ed269	type	Urban Segregation
Rant / int_e04ed269	comment	Urban Segregation: Sort of. The dichotomy is completely time-based (see Masquerade above) with the justification of enabling "effective use and maintenance of infrastructure". This is supposedly motivated by overpopulation, although Lynn Coffey views it as nothing more than systematic oppression.
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Rant / int_e7fbdf7e	type	Clone Jesus
Rant / int_e7fbdf7e	comment	Clone Jesus: Inverted, as the book suggests that Jesus himself may actually be a clone resulting from a man going back in time to rape Mary.
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Rant / int_e9e2c54d	type	You Already Changed the Past
Rant / int_e9e2c54d	comment	You Already Changed the Past: The events in the book turn out to be the result of Rant failing to prevent Green Taylor Simms from raping and killing his mother. It is implied that the current reality is the result of all the time-traveling and all the events resolve to a universe where the novel is considered a work of fiction.
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Rant / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
Rant / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Many characters are guilty of this, especially the scientists, but none of them are as guilty as Green Taylor Simms.
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Rant	hasFeature	Fascists' Bed Time / int_136553c2
Rant	hasFeature	First-Person Peripheral Narrator / int_136553c2
Rant	hasFeature	Grandfather Paradox / int_136553c2
Rant	hasFeature	Jigsaw Puzzle Plot / int_136553c2
Rant	hasFeature	KidAnova / int_136553c2
Rant	hasFeature	My Own Grampa / int_136553c2
Rant	hasFeature	Repetitive Name / int_136553c2
Rant	hasFeature	Scrapbook Story / int_136553c2
Rant	hasFeature	Typhoid Mary / int_136553c2
Rant	hasFeature	Urban Segregation / int_136553c2
Rant	hasFeature	Vomit Chain Reaction / int_136553c2

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