Tripping the Night Fantastic
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Tripping the Night Fantastic
Narrated by:
Alan R. Gron
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Narrated by:
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Alan R. Gron
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Andrew Chapman
About this listen
Tripping the Night Fantastic is essentially a whodunit, but one that is far from the traditional. There is a murder, there is a sleuth, and there is a solution, but in tone and humour it is somewhere between House, M.D. and Trainspotting.
Charlie Deavon is a British author who meets a fan (the sexually troublesome Amelia Heart) in a pub. The following morning she is found dead.
The main suspect in the case is Simon, Charlie's agent. Having avoided the police, Charlie, Simon, and the local bartender try to solve the case together. The three men, what with the stress of it all, turn to a new drug called Merlin, which allows them to control and share hallucinations.
From then on, they trip and hallucinate their way through to the story's conclusion.
Charlie and co. like to drink. Only they don't so much go for a drink as go for a splash. They wallow in it like mad fish. It really is no way to go about solving crimes.
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It’s a great plot and you are totally caught up in the characters and their stories.
Listen, laugh and enjoy! What a great audiobook!
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It starts out not too crazy where we meet Charlie a functionally alcoholic writer suffering from a case of writer's block but having done quite well from his previous work.
Charlie's long suffering agent tries to get him on TV to discuss his book and take part in some casting decisions regarding a film adaptation of his books, things decline into madness probably well before then but not before we meet Keep the barkeeper.
There's no easy way to describe this book that doesn't really know what it is, it's a murder mystery at heart but the murder and the solving of the murder seems almost secondary to the other crazy stuff that's going on.
Keep is also a bit of an amateur scientist designing amongst other things a new mind bending drug called Merlin which features heavily.
The story is told by I think Charlie but it could just as easily be a 'narrator' and this is one other facet of the book which confused me. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed the book, it was easy to listen to, entertaining and short enough for a quick read over the course of a couple of days commuting.
The narrator took about 30 minutes to get used to and I wasn't sure that the voices would stick throughout the book but they did and they grew on me, as they will grow on you!
The very end of the book left me thinking there may be a sequel which could go in an entirely new yet no less bizzare direction.
If you at all enjoy crazy, drink and drug fueled adventures that don't take themselves too seriously then you will enjoy this.
Trippy book
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light easy funny listen
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Listener received this title free
It's good, crazy drug fuelled conversation and action , of sorts, and wonderfully chaotic with a strange logic of it's own. The author interupts, at times, in explanation (as to why Jane and Simon do not have a dog, for example) which further adds to the glorious machinations of the story. Great fun, provided sex and drugs are bothersome to the reader. In contrast to the ever increasing silliness of the story, the narration is a straightforwardly calm and measured English accented reading, nicely performed by Alan R.Gron.
Yes, it is a bit of a strange one, not what I had expscted, but enjoyable. And different. My thanks to the rights holder of Tripping the Night Fantastic who, at my request, freely gifted me with a complimentary copy, via Audiobook Boom.
And such a good title.
Like a severe motorway like up.
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