Listen, laugh and enjoy! What a great audiobook!

Excellently narrated! I read the book and as soon as it became available on audiobook grabbed the opportunity to download.
It’s a great plot and you are totally caught up in the characters and their stories.

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Trippy book

If the film the Hangover had a drunken romantic liaison with Superbad without using any contraception and nine months later after a particularly morning sickness heavy pregnancy the progeny may turn out to be this book!

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.

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light easy funny listen

really comic at times, implausible at others and just generally fun throughout. Not to be taken seriously at all.

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Like a severe motorway like up.

Like the title, Tripping the Night Fantastic, this tale of three friends is a slight remove from normal and the title says it all. Yes, it is a murder mystery of sorts but that is really the least of this short novel. Charlie is an author but also he's a drunk. Has been since the death of his daughter. He doesn't much like drugs, but to him 'alcohol is not a drug. It's a drink', but his friend Keep, who runs the Basement, is rather fond of experimenting. Charlie's editor/agent friend, Simon, is persuaded by his wife, Jane, to invite him for dinner and Charlie arrives with his self acclaimed greatest fan, Amelia, who'd really like to be in a film....

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.

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Not For Me

I had high Hopes for this book after reading the reviews and a clip. But alas not for me. The first half most of the characters are off thier heads on drink or drugs. No real story turns up until halfway through. and is a very, very feeble whodunnit. I found the attempts at humor not even remotely funny. I really hate giving bad reviews. However this time I'm afraid I have had to. Its going back. which at least you can do on Audible!

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