Tarantula
by Bob Dylan
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Author: Bob DylanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-10-05
ISBN: 0743230418
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Scribner
Book Reviews of Tarantula
Book Review: "THERE IS NO SENSE IN TRYING"
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this book because I wanted the picture on the front cover. However, I forgot to read the reviews beforehand so I was sort of surprised to read the content. Short clips of sort of short stories or takes or thoughts--each has a title all right. Nothing to write home about. Maybe you can read bits and pieces on your breaks at work. Maybe some of this stuff had to do with Bob taking drugs back then. I really laughed until I cried reading portions of two of them--really really funny. Silly funny sometimes, very deep thinking emptyness, peaks of intelligence with overcast mud slides. I don't know really what to call the contents of this book. Is it worth buying? You be the judge. Hey, the picture on the front cover must have been professionally done!!! That's worth something!! You might have lots of fun reading, you might get annoyed, but at least we reviewers gave you prospective buyers disclosure statements so if you do buy, you can't really complain later on. Just when you think this is nonsense, you see glimses of genius and deep thought, just when you think this is a message of deep thought you find yourself saying, "oh this is nonsense." He keeps you guessing all along all right.
Know the price you pay, and if you can afford it and are curious, go ahead and purchase it. If you worship Bob Dylan, anything he says or does will be perfect and great. It will be another part of Bob's work that you will have on hand.
I think he took us for a ride on this one. I think he just wanted to have fun with the reader, never letting his true thoughts or feelings be known, and not really trying too hard to achieve much of anything by writing it--that's what I call real talent and genius!!! You go and try that!! Ha Ha. He just gives you a glimse into his overachieving mind back then. He is obviously brilliant, and his writings give you this glimse into his creative mind--whichever direction it wanted to go . . .
Some content will be less than enlightening and less than sensitive but still within boundaries of acceptable, I guess.
If you want LITERARY GENIUS, may I suggest The Tale of Genji, written in the year 1000 by a Japanese noble lady, Murasaki Shikibu, and considered to be the VERY FIRST NOVEL--but what a novel it is!!! Now that's a
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Bob Dylan wrote Tarantula in 1966. It existed for years only in dog-eared bootleg copies, but was eventually published in 1971. The book captures the tone and spirit of the turbulent times in which it was written.Poetry Books
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