Michael H. Danzig

A Rollicking Intoxicating Romp

Revisado: 07-30-20 El oyente recibió este título gratis

Terry Tarnoff throws down a highly seductive, melodic voice, which teases, pushes and pulls the listener along in tantalizing rhythms. This is a rollicking, intoxicating romp through a crazy world -- now gone forever -- populated by hippies, poets, sadhus, and musicians. The narrative spills over with brilliant, comedic, often hilarious, absurd situations. Tarnoff takes great pleasure in encountering his fellow travelers -- a torrent of amped-up, larger-than-life actors who populate a bright-lined, cinematic world of yesteryear's expatriates. The dangerous madness of mostly twenty & thirty-somethings living on the other side of the earth, far from the comforts of home, often leads to edifying revelations on the part of the author. The story's highs and lows are served up with witty explosions of vocal phrasing. Tarnoff gives the listener depth as well as humor in his moments of self-discovery, which often border on ecstatic, laugh-out-loud, magical intonations that resonate long after the story has ended.

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Truly A Literary And Aural Cinematic Event

Revisado: 02-09-19

This audiobook narrative by Terry Tarnoff of his book, "The Bone Man Of Benares" is masterful, and I recommend it to all those who've read 'The Bone Man' as well as those who have never had the unimaginable experience. Listening to Tarnoff's many-faceted narrative is equal to watching "Apocalypse Now" for the first time -- shrapnel and live fire hits you from everywhere and out of nowhere at any and all moments. It's truly a literary and aural cinematic event. And you'll never listen to another narrative like this one because this world is gone forever. Tarnoff's adventures occur at a time when hippies, poets, musicians -- wanderers with rucksacks -- populated special places in the world. His voice, an amazing, powerful instrument with innumerable variations of tone and texture takes you on an existential, philosophical, epochal voyage through Africa and Asia with stops in Amsterdam, Stockholm, and Paris. While exuding the obsessions of a hyper-romantic, poetic young man in his twenties, Tarnoff's adventures and observations of the intersection of hip international youth with the local populations of India, Nepal, Thailand, Laos, and Indonesia become a fun-house of brilliant comedic revelations. He is able to reach high points of hilarious situational absurdity which one could never imagine occurring in today's googled, globalized online 'culture'. Tarnoff's narrative is magical and hypnotic in its rhythms, which spill out in cascades of bright movie-like eruption, as we see the wonders of the East through his eyes. He consistently tantalizes us us with his razor-sharp, off-kiltered wonder at the insanity of the conundrums in which he continually finds himself on his eight-year journey. Tarnoff tackles the demons he finds within, often caught in a drug-infused swirl of hashish smoke and various powders during those hot, humid, monsoon-filled, somehow innocent times. There is an ecstatic and deeply humorous, laugh-out-loud convergence between Tarnoff's mind and the reality of the bizarre world he travels through, and it all comes out with great immediacy and relevance in the inimitable voice of one who's been to worlds we can no longer observe. We're along for the ride, bouncing from chapter to chapter with some of the wackiest, most otherworldly characters in contemporary literature, as told by a character himself who is as confused and amazed as those he writes about, a narrator armed with deep wit, and downright interestingness.

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