"Rant:" A book report

I’ve had a penis for a little more than 44 years.
Standard equipment on the 1963-model ThomG, like lap belts or the AM/FM radio.
You know how to work it.
(Intimate with it.)
Ahhh, but when you learn something new about the penis, it’s a really great day.
That’s why I like reading Chuck Paluhniuk.
I just finished “Rant: And Oral Biography of Buster Casey.”
In it, one of the characters mentions that you can’t maintain an erection and eat at the same time. It is one of those moments that gives pause. And you think, “Really?”
Really.
An erection is basically just blood flow. And when you eat, that blood flow is needed for digestion.
(So don’t eat, if you want to maintain an erection.)

Rant is one mind-bender of a book. You can’t read fast, but you can’t help but want to read it. You can’t put it down, either.

Buster ‘Rant’ Casey is one fucked up individual. Someone you’d really like to get to know.
And you get to know him, after his death, through everyone else in the story. It’s an oral history, something very tough to do. And Paluhniuk delivers the goods.

Here are a few selected quotes from the book, destined to be as popular as any from “Fight Club:”

“The future you had today won’t be the same future you had yesterday.”

"After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, maybe three times, you'll settle down and marry someone less exciting for the rest of your life."

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

“Nobody's all that original. Any lone wierdo comes from a big nest of wierdos. What's wierd is, you go to some pigsty village in Slovakia, and suddenly even Any Warhol makes perfect sense.”

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

ThomG says check it out.

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