Hearing Voices - Collected Stories & Drawings Review

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(More customer reviews)Somehow this guy captures every "real", unusual, or frightening tidbit from your own life and puts it into a calming, yet humorous (or perhaps amusing is a better term)text with illustrations and makes you realize that your life isn't the only one that is a bit whacked-out at times. Secrets of marriage revealed (not listening to your wife because you may need to murder her in her sleep if you actually process what is being said), secrets of life shared (taking time to listen to sleeping children breathing), etc. If you are looking for a good novel, this isn't it. If you are looking for a book you can read in 20 minutes or a page a day for 70 days, get a few chuckles, wonder a bit, and ponder for days to follow, this IS it.

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This is the fifth book of the series that began with"Mostly True Collected Stories & Drawings".Brian has continued thejourney, weaving humor and poignance in his stories and drawingsincluding 'No Regret' ("I sometimes wake in the early morning & listento the soft breathing of my children & I think to myself, this is onething I'll never regret & I carry that quiet with me all day long").

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The Hearing Trumpet Review

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(More customer reviews)The Hearing Trumpet is deliciously funny and irreverent; Surrealist painter/author Leonora Carrington's apocalyptic tale is filled with gems such as "Darling, don't be philosophical, it doesn't suit you, it makes your nose red." Filtered through the eyes and ears of Marian Leatherby, a 92 year-old inmate of a Spanish old folk's home (run by the cultlike Well of Light Brotherhood), the tongue-in-cheek tone and hilarious chracters make this book a refreshing surprise. Every copy I've ever owned has been stolen! From the first paragraph, the reader will see that Marian Leatherby and her friends are NOT LOL's (Little Old Ladies), and Leonora Carrington is not your average author. (She's truly hilarious, for one!) Read this book for its wacky imagery (a trompe l'oeil "furnished" tower, a pair of murdering religious quacks, termite engineering, wigs, marijuana-stuffed needlepoint pillows, and a 92 year-old lady swarming down ten stories of rope, for starters), then hide your copy from your well-read friends...or buy them their own!

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Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter who now makes her home in Mexico City, is also a writer of extraordinary imagination and charm. Exact Change launched a program of reprinting her fiction with what is perhaps her best loved book. The Hearing Trumpet is the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby, who is given the gift of a hearing trumpet only to discover that what her family is saying is that she is to be committed to an institution. But this is an institution where the buildings are shaped like birthday cakes and igloos, where the Winking Abbess and the Queen Bee reign, and where the gateway to the underworld is open. It is also the scene of a mysterious murder. Occult twin to Alice in Wonderland, The Hearing Trumpet is a classic of fantastic literature that has been translated and celebrated throughout the world.

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