Talk:Rant (novel)

message: Why is Echo Lawrence the only person not to have an Epilogue? Even characters who had one or two lines had their own Epilogue, but not Echo. Did Chuck intend for this? Did she go back, prevent the accident thus never becoming stunted and Never joinning Party Crashing? The Chracters who did go back where listed as being in an accident, their bodies never being found. KoalaMeatPie 10:08, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Rant is the new, improved Green Taylor.  Originally (this is speculation somewhat supported by the book), he was born to Irene, but raised by her alone.  He went to the city, but ended up transported through time and ended up fathering future generations, thus changing Irene's child into Buster, since each generation had been changed.  Because of the Grandmother paradox, he ended up still existing, and I guess killing Irene would have had the same effect as had he not fiddled with history (or killing his father, but he doesn't know who that is.) Darquis 04:13, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

text: `The Two Posts above are both mine :-/ Sorry for the confusion. KoalaMeatPie 06:00, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fill me In please?

message: It might be worth noting that one of the novel's "contributors," Victor Turner, (pp. 289, 293) was a real person. Then again, maybe not. 209.247.5.49 12:59, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Victor Turner, one of British Anthropology last heroic figures, is dead since 1983. He is quoted as in a quote by the fictional anthropologist, not as being an oral contributor... The fictional anthropologist created by Palahniuk speaks of ritual and liminality just as summing up Turner's theses, nothing original. He then quotes directly Turner, but Turner is not "interviewed". In the end of the book, at the list of contributors, the references to Dr. Turner wanting to create a Samba School in Brazil, unless I am mistaken, are just a joke by Palahniuk. --201.210.219.76 (talk) 00:23, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Turner

message: Quote: During his "Rant 2007" tour, Palahniuk has indicated that he will continue to write two more books based on Rant, to be released tentatively in 2011 and 2013 but also stated that he will be writing other books in between, with his next to be titled Snuff.
this is implying that Snuff is not part of the Rant trilogy where as on the Snuff article it does say it is (i would post this on the snuff article talk page, but this page seems more active)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Coachpatato49 (talk • contribs) 22:14, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction with Snuff 

message: Victor Turner died in 1983.  I cant figure it out.  Not that it really matters.
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The article states that it takes place in a "dystopian future", but I disagree. Read page 313.
Echo Lawrence: "If rant ever gets it right [...] chances are you'll never have heard the name Rant Casey."</br>
Shot Dunyan: "How weird is that? Instead of a biography, this story will become fiction. A historical artifact documenting a past that never happened."
Oh, and sign your post dude. Rusknight 23:11, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm thinking it is supposed to be a dystopian now in an alternate timeline, the only thing that gave any indication to time that I noticed was Rant used a carphone/cell phone when he called the radio station from the about to be blown up car. 198.6.46.11 (talk) 15:07, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  What year do you think it took place? 

message: The contributors in the novel are made to be conflicting and are not necessarily reliable narrators. Everyone in the book, Echo Lawrence, Shot, ect.. They were infected with rabies and naturally can be assumed that they went a bit delusional. The time travel idea may have no actual basis other than unreliability on the part of those contributors. Another backing part of this would be that it's disputed by Rant's non-biological father, who also proposed a rather different story in the beginning of the novel. So just keep in mind everyone, this is written as an oral history from the viewpoint of many possibly unreliable characters, and one of the major themes is that nothing they say can be called fact. 
Oh, and also. Lets remember that any date we add for when the story takes place is speculation without it being confirmed by Chuck himself. For all we know it could be in the present but just its own Fictional universe
ExplodingTeeth (talk) 22:31, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Keep in mind everyone 

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