I think it is his worst book besides "Diary". Mind you he is my favorite writer so that doesn't mean it is unreadable.

I've read all of Palahniuk's work, and Rant stands as my second least favorite novel, right above Snuff (a real disappointment). I thought that he fell into a familiar trap I've come to recognize within his body of work. The characters, not only in Rant, but in all of his novels kind of blend into one homogenous voice: Palahniuk's saturnine alter ego. In Choke I heard Tyler Durden, in Diary, characters from Invisible Monsters, Rant, Lullaby, etc. Hence, the characters lacked color and psychological dimension, developed only by the exacting factual research he did to make whatever vulgarity appear more real and evocative in a characteristic uncouth but entertaining way. He's a "shock writer" like Marilyn Manson is a "shock rocker." But he executes a well-structured satire, great for a weekend read. I look forward to the next two follow up books about Rant, the proposed sci-fi trilogy akin to his completed horror trilogy. But maybe his conceptual continuity is a strength? His books are like screenplays, easily conforming to a cinematic format, as opposed to a book like Gravity's Rainbow, a maximalist literary style, starkly opposed to Palahniuk's sterile, though accessible, minimalist technique. Rant is a satisfying product like a Big Mac is culinary. Palahniuk's Rant made up for a lack of character development in his other novels by diluting and fragmenting one or two protagonists into a parade of disparate voices, all struggling to come to terms with the black hole in the heart of Palahniuk's nihilistic vision of a romance among the taboo and transgressive. So, what do I think about that? I prefer the literary voices of Pynchon, DeLillo, Gaddis, Wallace, and Vollmann.

I've read it, and I like it. I think it is an interesting story that has an interesting culture in it and has an interesting bit of sci-fi thrown in there. Good book all around.

I like it so far but i am 30 pages in. I like how its different, and its interesting.