I Sold The Moon! (A True Story)


Read by Barry McArdle

(4.8 stars; 5 reviews)

Just because it happened, doesn't mean you'll believe it.

Take a rollicking ride through the 1970s with the original Moon Man, Barry McArdle, a silver-suited street performer and comic philosopher who spent ten years crisscrossing America selling lunar real estate (transportation not provided). As told by the author, I Sold the Moon! explores how a young man, fresh out of college, could get the idea that he could claim the moon, and then sell it. Exactly what drugs was he on? Well??..

Moon Man's adventures are paralleled throughout by a more earthly concern: his romance with a young woman as adventurous as he, in the turbulent days of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. The story of this "first love" is threaded from the opening chapter until the final page. I Sold The Moon! is for anyone who believes in following their dreams and searching for true love. It's cosmic, perceptive, passionate and fun. Mostly fun. Hear it here from the one, the only, the original Moon Man.


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Oh my god! :D There was a woman here in ontario who ran this hustle in the mid 90's and made millians of dollars selling moon acres out of the offices of her web design company. Then she left the country in a huge rush and there is probably still ...


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Oh, my! My grandmother gave me a gift of lunar land some 30 or 35 years ago. I wonder if she got it from you! She and I shared a love of the universe and science-fiction, so she no doubt thought gifting me a piece of the moon was fitting. ...


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I am only halfway through this book, but I am enjoying it immensely. It does what all good memoir does: it approaches its subject with a personal sort of intimacy, but leavens what might easily become an egotistic excercise with some amount of distance. Here, we see the author probing ...


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Barry! Last time I saw you, you were hiding out in your Columbia Pike apartment with a paper bag over your head after one of your split-ups with Paula. David said you’d been “in there” for days. Wanting to find out how that great love played out kept me glued ...


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I was pleasantly surprised by I Sold The Moon. My expectations were perhaps for something entertaining but not especially touching or heartfelt but I got all three. McArdle 'pulls back the curtain' on street theater; showing its pains, perils and prophets, er, profits. I found McArdle's lack of sugar-coating when ...


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I was quite taken from your book. I actually googled the info and now have bought a moon acre(paying more then the $1 but will be worth it) which I will give to the love of my life and tell her that "See I do love you to the moon ...


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Sorry the issue on #9, folks. We've had a little trouble with that "!" in the title making it through to file names. Seems it happened here as well. It's been fixed, and we hope it doesn't make a repeat performance for the remaining episodes. E.


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Great story, the narration was entertaining and comical. I like that there was a love story entwined that wrapped everything up into a nice package.