Tarantula

Must read :))))

If you do not follow or know the songs & life of BOB DYLAN then you will not be able to understand any line of this book. Its a trilogy series of BOB DLYAN autobiography.

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Full Disclosure: I am a punk rocker. I am not of Dylan's generation, I'm a little young for Black Sabbath/Led Zeppelin, but the Clash and the Pistols came along as I was young and impressionable. The most I know about Dylan then was that he was that guy that did that godawful song that came on Sunday mornings, where all the instruments are vaguely out of synch with one another and that's not what I called singing (granted I preferred Sid Vicious to Sinatra). It took years of reading interviews with everyone from the Pyschedelic Furs, The Clash, Ian Hunter, and even Rollins to figure out I should give the guy a chance. Anyway, cut to now and this book: in 1966 Dylan was the nexus: he was the embodiment of the culture's (and the counter-culture's) past, present and future. When I read this I can hear the Beat Trinity of Burroughs-Ginsberg-Keruoac, I have hear the bebop that influenced them, if I knew more about folk than Phil Ochs, Pete Seger, and Woody Guthrie I'd probably hear them too. Its not a far stretch to keep an ear out for Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters. Both Joe Strummer and Sad Barrett were influenced by Dylan, and each took a different path. This book is of its time, but even as a time-piece it stands out. Absolutely brilliant. You won't be disappointed.

Je ne connaissais pas bien ce talent d'écrivain chez Dylan, davantage son immense répertoire de textes et de chansons, donc intéressant de découvrir une autre facette de notre prix Nobel de Littérature. Il le mérite bien¨! un talent inné pour l'écriture et une imagination qui ne tarit jamais. magnifique

This book is like reading poetry! I have only finished first few chapters and I must say that "I am hooked!"