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Kate -> RE: Jason Websters Duende book (Dec. 10 2003 12:35:07)
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Hi Jon,
I was given this book and thought it enjoyable if regarded as fiction. ie Young man goes in search of Flamenco in Valencia, well perhaps not the best place to start, but he manages to learn not only how to speak Spanish but play flamenco guitar in a matter of months to such an extent he joins a group of Gitanos and tours with their show and is taken out and about having all sorts of adventures, typical steretype 'Gypsy' activities, taking drugs, stealing cars etc.
He ends up in Granada and the plot gets a little thin, things happen with no explanation, he manages to meet PdL pissing behind a tree in the ALhambra. A story I have heard from many people, how many people were in the woods that night I wonder. Having seen PdL's 'condiciones' for performing and having been there that night it is very doubtful that PdL could not have found somewhere less public to piss.
For me it was an enjoyable read even if I got a bit exasperated about the implausibility of it all, like I said it's fiction masquerading as real life, yes its flamenco but not as we know it :)
Kate
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