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Not Fade Away ("Rebel Inc." Classics) (Paperback)

by Jim Dodge (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Rebel inc.; New Ed edition (3 Feb 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0862419603
  • ISBN-13: 978-0862419608
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 558,207 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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George Gastin is part of an insurance scam to wreck a Cadillac originally meant for the Big Bopper, but George has other ideas and disappears with the car. On his quest to find the spirit of rock 'n' roll he is pursued by gangsters and meets hitch-hikers and demented preachers.

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A road-trip of mind-bending quality, 21 Dec 2000
This is the story of Floorboard George, a roaming pick-up driver with a story to tell.

Written in a fantastically readable style, Dodge certainly knows how to grab the reader's attention and hold on for dear life. Every nuance of George's colourful life is covered in a first person narrative where you can almost BE George - embracing rock 'n' roll and its trappings to help explain just why a dodgy insurance scam metamorphosises into a beautiful road trip.

Meeting some fascinating characters along the way,such as the eccentric inventor, Joshua, and the to-hell-and-back preacherman Double-Gone Johnson (if this book ever hit the big screen, a role more than suited to Samuel L Jackson) George tells of his burning desire to take a pristine '59 Cadillac to the grave of the Big Bopper, as per the dying wish of an obsessed fan.

Guzzling tinnies and bennies along the way, the frazzled mind of George plays ludicrous tricks on him (check out the story of the little orange man and his big jigsaw puzzle piece, and of jiving cacti for starters !) and leaves him in a bigger hole as the frenzied Scumball's mad mob charge after him to catch him with his prize haul.

Whilst not as wired as Hunter S Thompson's road trip to Hell, 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas', this foot-to-the-metal, rollercoaster of a ride is instantly likeable and fantastic entertainment. Has anyone got a raft of money they could lend me so I can make the film please ? De Niro as George, definitely !!!

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5.0 out of 5 stars One to pass on to all your friends, 25 Oct 2002
By doublegone (scotland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Not Fade Away ("Rebel Inc") (Paperback)
I have now lost count of the number of copies of this I have given to other people. It is one of the most delightful things I have read in the last ten years. The characters leap off the page and blow raspberries on your belly.

Think Steinbeck's Cannery Row with a dose of rock and roll.

If you thought Kerouak's books never quite lived up to all the fuss - this is the book for you.

Deeply cool, deeply touching, wryly humourous and there is a character called Double-Gone Johnson.

What more could you want.

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Old rock and roll stars never die..., 4 Dec 2006
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A novel with a dose of psychotropic drugs and a sound track only available on collectors' edition vinyl, Dodge's story takes unlikely hero Floorboard George Gastin on the ultimate road trip, to return the Big Bopper's '59 Cadillac to the site of his untimely demise, guesstimated from sketchy half-remembered details provided by the host of demented hitch-hikers picked up along the way. Told with the customary panache and élan expected from America's most potent story teller, Dodge leaves Kerouac and the other pretenders eating his exhaust fumes.
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