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The Dylanologists: Adventures In The Land Of Bob (2014)

by David Kinney(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1451626924 (ISBN13: 9781451626926)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Simon & Schuster

review 1: Might have made a good magazine article, but it got padded into a book, and it's something of a bore.Rehashed Dylan biography - nothing new, and that's the padding. The rest has to do with time spent with various folks who have made an obsession of Dylan. Concert followers, restaurant owners, academics, and assorted nut cases. Interesting to a point, but the point comes pretty fast.I read it because it's hard for me to pass up on a Dylan book, and it felt like a self-inflicted punishment.The Land of Bob is between Bob's ears - we get a glimpse when he delivers his work. The Dylanologists: etc., doesn't take you much anywhere.
review 2: Well, it's not like this is the story of my life or anything. I see myself in most every page here.It's a well-done and rea... moredable story of Dylan and focuses on some of his more, er, serious fans and their stories over the last 40 years. It tells some of Dylan's story -- very well, and not just the well-known parts -- and how many people reacted to that story. In the 70s and 80s, it's the story of bootleg recordings and concerts, and disconnected fans reaching out to one another, and then with the advent of the near-constant touring in the late 80s, the story of many who recorded the concerts and followed Dylan around from city to city. In the 2000s, it's the story of many fan's disenchantment with both the concerts and the songwriting, especially the revelations of how much work of others Dylan borrows in his songs and books. I fall in with the camp that became disenchanted with the music after "Love and Theft" and much less pleasure in the concerts. I have met and in a case or two became friendly with, several of the people mentioned in the book, and there are some cases where I was present at some events. In all, Kinney tells this story well, from the point of view, I think, of one who has been infected with the same virus as some of those he discusses in the book. less

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