A Dancing Bear
Gelesen von David Free
David Free
(4,2 Sterne; 10 Bewertungen)
What if getting the girl meant becoming a terrorist wet boy?
On an unnamed university campus late in the 20th century, a young man named Fenton Bland joins a society of student Maoists in order to get near the girl he loves. But the girl turns out to belong to the chief Maoist -- and he turns out to harbor alarming aspirations in the field of revolutionary terror. And so Fenton, wearing a forcibly grown beard, finds himself propelled into a bizarre covert world of death lists, backyard bomb labs, untraceable handguns, and attempted wet jobs of wildly varying quality -- a world in which he must choose between losing the girl forever or else participating, perhaps very soon, in a successful terrorist atrocity.
Along the way he must contend with a motley cast of characters, few of whom enjoy optimal grips on reality. There is Gus, the Maoist kingpin who in his quest to become a practising terrorist will draw the line at nothing, not even a car bombing ("I'm listening, mate -- provided you're not referring to my Kombi.") There is the fiery student radical Pamela Scratch, linked to Fenton by an infinitely regrettable sex act perpetrated in a sandpit at the age of five. And there is the incarcerated and patently guilty multiple murderer Neville Claude Aggot, whose spectacular escape augments the already long list of impending homicides that Fenton must at least try to avert as the novel hurtles, like a Kombi full of high explosive, towards its climax...
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Bewertungen
By: Mark R
(0 Sterne)
David, Thanks for the enjoyment your book has given me. I have just finished listening to the pod version. My (now distant) memories of thoughts and women and university were brought wonderfully back to life in Fenton's internal monologues. I discovered your book via an advert while in Clive James' ...
By: Esther
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It took me a while to relax into the strong Oz accent and bland style of narration but it was worth waiting. This is one of the best audio books I have listened too. It has style, a solid plot, a great sense of humour and makes excellent use of ...
By: Justin
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This book is absolutely hilarious! I've never really had any trouble with accents, so the wordplay in the first chapter hooked me right off of the bat. I've yet to meet the end of the novel, but here's what I think so far: A Dancing Bear is like taking Palahniuk ...
By: bookmarc
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This is one of the funniest books I have come across and it is wonderful to have some laconic Australian dry wit in the Podiobook fraternity at last. It is intelligently written, expresses a lot of concepts I thoroughly endorse, (apart perhaps from terrorism, murder, sexual violence and not taking ...
By: Abbie White
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I warmed up to this book gradually after a few chapters and then really enjoyed every chapter. This is a great book that took me two weeks to finish. I listened to many chapters twice to hear again with more clarity colorful character descriptions. Fanton's home life with his roommates ...
By: David
(0 Sterne)
Thanks again to everyone who's taken the trouble to leave ratings and comments - I appreciate every one of them (and hope for more in the future!) Anyway, in case people are interested, I'm now blogging at http://adancingbearblog.blogspot.com/ Please drop by and leave a comment.
By: David
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Many thanks Mark - it can make an writer's day, waking up to a comment like that. And thanks for letting me know that my campaign over at Clive's site is bearing some fruit!
By: David
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It's really nice to hear that, APT - thanks for taking the time to drop by and say so.