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  • Scary Monsters and Super Creeps

  • In Search of the World's Most Hideous Beasts
  • By: Dom Joly
  • Narrated by: Dom Joly
  • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (14 ratings)
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Summary

Dom Joly sets off round the world, but this time he's not looking to holiday in a danger zone—he's monster hunting. 

Ever since he was given a copy of Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World for his ninth birthday, Dom has been obsessed with the world of cryptozoology—monster hunting—and in Scary Monsters and Super Creeps, he heads to six completely different destinations to investigate local monster sightings. 

He explores the Redwood Curtain in Northern California in search of Sasquatch; in Canada, he visits Lake Okanagan hoping to catch a glimpse of a 30-foot snake-like creature called Ogopogo and near Lake Tele in Congo, he risks his life tracking the vegetarian sauropod Mokele-mbembe. Naturally he heads to Loch Ness—but for this hunt, he has his family in tow; he treks across the Khumbu Valley in Nepal looking for Yeti and in the hills above Hiroshima in Japan, he enlists the help of a local man to find the Hibagon, a terribly smelly 'caveman ape'. 

Are the monsters all the product of fevered minds, or is there a sliver of truth somewhere in the madness? Either way, the search gives Dom an excuse to dive into six fascinating destinations on a gloriously nutty adventure. In typically hilarious and irreverent fashion, Dom explores the cultures that gave rise to these monster myths and ends up in some pretty hairy situations with people even stranger than the monsters they are hunting.

©2021 Dom Joly (P)2022 Hachette Audio UK

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A laugh out loud amble through conspiracy theories.

Dom Joly is starting to become one of my favourite authors. He has a very warm, engaging and intellectual writing style. The fact that he narrates his own books, really adds massively to the experience. It’s so conversational I feel like he is talking to me in a pub with a pint. Obviously it’s funny, belly laughing in parts. It’s also a travel book, which I love. Keep them coming please Dom!!

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I love all of these books

They’re all fantastic! Everything about them all are great and an amazing purchase you won’t regret

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The humour was fantastic and very well narrated.

What can I say? I couldn't stop listening to this and was excited each time I got to listen to it.
This is the second book I've purchased from Dom (first one Conspiracy Tourist) and I have just bought dark Tourist.
Superb and a fantastic writer.
Tom

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Entertaining enough

The overall stories of his travels are entertaining, particularly in his trip to the Congo. I find he’s too scathing at times about people he meets, and he doesn’t seem to like women who don’t meet his expectations, especially overweight ones, He needs to rein this in a bit, because it sucks the charm out of the story and comes across as snooty. Otherwise a good listen.

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