I was neither high nor drunk enough to get this book. ( )

The winning of the Nobel Prize by Bob Dylan must be the reason why the Guilin-based Guangxi Normal University Press decided to publish Dylan's only prose novel called Tarantula (1966). This edition is a bi-lingual Chinese-English (on opposing pages) heavily annotated hardback edition. For study purposes, line numering is added.

It is a beautiful edition for a horrible work! I found this utterly unreadable. Basically, it is free association, stream-of-consciousness prose, although the inclusion of very unusual references suggests post-editing and enrichment of the text. Many punctuation conventions have been abandoned, and there is frequent usage of ampersand.

It is mindboggling how anyone can produce such B.S. particularly consistently is such a large quantity (roughly 150 pages). (The total number of pages in this edition is 529.). I wonder whether the author used substances.

Kerouac's stream-of-consciousness prose can be challenging at times, but at least it seems artful, and one can detect beauty and meaning. Tarantula merely gave me a great sense of irritation. Phew! ( )

What is this? Anyone who claims to like this is full of crap. ( )

Dylan entremeia uma prosa poética de fluxo de consciência com poemas epistolares, tudo isso numa verve deveras beatnik. ( )

Jag läste inte många sidor i denna bok. Det gick inte att förstå något av vad jag läste. Troligtvis någon alldeles för komplicerad poesi för att jag skulle greppa det. Kan verkligen inte rekommendera denna bok. ( )