Why? *spoilers*
In Rant, they have boosted peak technology, and it is stted that this is the only remaining entertainment form. So my questio is, why did somebody make the book, if books have been replaced?
Books don't have to be entertainment. Maybe all the oral biographies were part of a police record or something.
It is an oral biography...
I'm sure Chuck was looking into boosted peaks as a form of publishing, but a book seems much more reasonable.
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Now I write, when I'm away, letters that you'll never read.
Because, as with Pygmy, there are certain logic gaps the author feels it is best to avoid rather than address...
speaking of which, he lifted that boosted peak stuff from Strange Days! Like with the Simpsons for Pygmy! He's selling our own childhood back to us and calling it new!
is anything ever truly a new concept?
is anything ever truly a new concept?
I'm glad to see that you're starting to be coherent. 
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Now I write, when I'm away, letters that you'll never read.
there's a difference between reimagining something and just rehashing someone else's gimmick.
is anything ever truly a new concept?
I'm glad to see that you're starting to be coherent. :)
is that supposed to be a compliment?
is anything ever truly a new concept?
I'm glad to see that you're starting to be coherent. :)
is that supposed to be a compliment?
Back handed, but yes.
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Now I write, when I'm away, letters that you'll never read.
Maybe books are supposed to be a sort of illegal, underground form of entertainment?
We shouldn't have to make this kind of stretch as an audience.
"To fail to embrace my dreams now would be a disgrace so great that sin itself would not be able to find a name for it." - Werner Herzog
We shouldn't have to make this kind of stretch as an audience.
i agree
We shouldn't have to make this kind of stretch as an audience.
But why not? After all, shouldn't a book make you think? Make you put things together?
Maybe books are supposed to be a sort of illegal, underground form of entertainment?
Like in Farenheit 451?
We shouldn't have to make this kind of stretch as an audience.
But why not? After all, shouldn't a book make you think? Make you put things together?
Thinking and putting things together is not the same as struggling to justify a plot hole.
"To fail to embrace my dreams now would be a disgrace so great that sin itself would not be able to find a name for it." - Werner Herzog
I think that a book like Rant is like a puzzle, and you have to make certain conclusions while reading.
Maybe books are supposed to be a sort of illegal, underground form of entertainment?
Like in Farenheit 451?
I get the impression that Palahniuk intended for Rant to take place within some sort of pseudo-dystopian society, so yeah, that wouldn't surprise me.
If I remember right. By the end of the book, Shot went back in time to get rid of Peaks and such, making books and TV dominate again.
He didn't necessarily, Echo just says that he would.
This is moronic. You're stretching the formalism of the book beyond its reasonable parameters into a real life context.
As one clever poster (maybe the only one in this thread...) pointed out, boosting technology does not actually exist and thus, it's sort of impossible.
But I'll play devil's advocate with you guys. Let's pop in Logan's Run and A Clockwork Orange and point out how all the props and costumes in those films are from the 70s and not actually from the future. Kubrick, you overrated hack.
^Man, my anger for Pygmy spilled all over this site^
I think it was a book because it traveled back in time to us, and we don't have boosted peaks.
"To fail to embrace my dreams now would be a disgrace so great that sin itself would not be able to find a name for it." - Werner Herzog
It is an oral biography...
This...
It's on the fuckin' cover.
Because, as with Pygmy, there are certain logic gaps the author feels it is best to avoid rather than address...
"To fail to embrace my dreams now would be a disgrace so great that sin itself would not be able to find a name for it." - Werner Herzog