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Wild Highway | 
 enlarge | Authors: Bill Drummond, Mark Manning
Publisher: Creation Books (TC)
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 786678
Media: Paperback
Pages: 432
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.8 x 1.3
ISBN: 1840681160
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781840681161
ASIN: 1840681160
Publication Date: August 1, 2005
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Product Description
Bill Drummond and Mark Manning's second trip was to Zaire, a jungle hell on the verge of bloody civil war, where they traveled down-river in search of the ghost of Conrad's Kurtz. By turns hilarious and horrifying, Wild Highway will cement the reputation of Drummond and Manning not only as cutting-edge writers, but as two of the most dangerous and subversive "pranksters" of the fledgeling 21st century.
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who would have imagined? October 2, 2005
Tal Klein (San Francisco, CA United States)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Indeed, who COULD have imagined that Bill Drummond, co-founder of the KLF, would be the last true beat writer? Although not as well authored as, say, Burroughs, Kerouac, or Thompson, the book does cover a lot of existential ground. Drummond's logs throughout Z's and Gimpo's ramblings serve as treatises of reality, sort of olive branches offered to a reader trapped in the creative unapologetic word vortex. There's lots of violence, drugs, sex, and certainly lots of filler. The book is a heavy read, not the kind of adventure one feels the urge to digest in one sitting. I enjoyed the open-ended writing style. One word of warning though, the book makes many (albeit often subtle) references to its prequel, Bad Wisdom. What will that curmudgeon Drummond and his pesky cronies be up to next time? Perhaps a recovery mission for a certain box of hidden money in a place which smells of sulfur? ;)
If Conrad's Heart of Darkness really happened . . . August 13, 2006
Insert Pen Name Here (Louisville, KY)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
These self styled "language bandits," seem to have forgotten the beat movement ended 30 years ago. Having been desesitized and left bored by their post rock 'n roll years, these authors, obviously unhappy w/ the westernized mores and morals flooding them on every side in London, set out on their own deathwish. A modern Heart of Darkness it truly is, weaving fact and fiction into a truly original piece of work that should find a home in all readers who are bored w/ everything they have read and have almost given up on it. This is a very visceral writing style. While I believe almost all of Drummond's introverted, suffocating, and racist prose describing the hell hole that is Zaire, it is Mark Manning's counterpoint flashes of illusion which actually give you not only the heart of Zaire, but the impeccable danger it is to be these men.
While I hardly believe any of the homo-preoccupation, serial killing, sadomasochistic rambling of Manning, I have the feeling he would do all these things to the Zairens if he wasn't concerned about the consequences.
These two writers are purposefully offensive. They essentially want wave a big middle finger at the modern world by traveling on their own devil finding mission at the pit of humanity.
A very interesting read. I would recommend it to anyone who wished Henry Miller would have decided his sexual escapades would have found more impact on his prose in the third world AIDS infested equatorial state of Zaire, than in France.
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