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^ Read * The Jerusalem Syndrome: My Life as a Reluctant Messiah by Marc Maron ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Jerusalem Syndrome: My Life as a Reluctant Messiah He spends some time exploring the dark side of things, as his obsessions with cocaine (known to Maron as “magic powder”), conspiracy theories, and famous self-destructive comedians convince him that the gates of hell open beneath Los Angeles. Maron riffs on Beat phenomena with its sacred texts, established rituals, and prescribed pilgrimages. Marc Maron seems to have a distinctly American version of the Jerusalem Syndrome, which has led him on a lifelong quest for religious signific
| Title | : | The Jerusalem Syndrome: My Life as a Reluctant Messiah |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.98 (570 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0767908104 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-27 |
| Language | : | English |
He spends some time exploring the dark side of things, as his obsessions with cocaine (known to Maron as “magic powder”), conspiracy theories, and famous self-destructive comedians convince him that the gates of hell open beneath Los Angeles. Maron riffs on Beat phenomena with its sacred texts, established rituals, and prescribed pilgrimages. Marc Maron seems to have a distinctly American version of the Jerusalem Syndrome, which has led him on a lifelong quest for religious significance and revelation in the most unlikely of places. In his brainiac-memoir-meets-hilarious-travelogue, he demonstrates the ability to tell a story with an extraordinary provocative intelligence that is regrettably
Named for a psychological condition that often afflicts visitors to the Middle East, The Jerusalem Syndrome provides a vivid and comedic sense of what it's like to believe you're a conduit for the voice of God. In New Jersey, in New Mexico, and in Israel (among many other places), Maron has found God in encounters with Beat poetry, cocaine, the Coca-Cola logo, and conspiracy theories. In this case, the affliction belongs to standup comic Marc Maron, whose brief, engrossing memoir recounts a lifelong parade of revelation and delusion. --Michael Joseph Gross. Brief chapters sketch Maron's picaresque adventures, all narrated in a relentlessly neurotic style: "I had just made a horrible but good d
Five Stars Maron rules.. "Great book" according to Troy McClure. Having been a fan, I had a great time reading this. Strongly recommended.. If you use your heart, brains and guts every day, you may enjoy this. But really, if you can't take a joke, if you can't sympathize with others, if you refuse to give yourself an honest appraisal on a regular basis, if you've never taken a chance on a wild idea or a romantic urge, if you've never charged ahead of the crowd or hung back when the crowd surged ahead, if you've never gone down a different path, just to see where it would lead, you will be totally unable to comprehend what Maron is saying.And he leaves a lot unsaid, expecting his audience to make som
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