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  • The Dance of the Voodoo Handbag

  • Barking Mad Trilogy, Book 2
  • By: Robert Rankin
  • Narrated by: Robert Rankin
  • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (54 ratings)
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The Dance of the Voodoo Handbag

By: Robert Rankin
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Summary

The story of Billy, whose Grandmother left him the "voodoo handbag" in her will, after he had sold her soul to science. The tales it told Billy would change his life for ever - and the lives of other people too.

©1998 Robert Rankin (P)2014 Audible Studios

Critic reviews

"This is Rankin at his comic best. He does for England what Spike Milligan does for Ireland. There can be no higher praise" (John Clute, Mail on Sunday)
"We read Rankin for his exuberant salmagundi of old jokes, myths urban and otherwise, catchphrases, liberatingly crazy ideas, running gags, recurring characters and locations, unreliable, autobiogrpahical anecdotes...he becomes funnier the more you read him" (Mat Coward, Independent)

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Magical

I find the stories in this trilogy both fun and great at making my brain investigate other possibilities. The connections of facts are link finding missing pieces.

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Crazy cyclical journey

The master of Far Fetched Fiction brings possibly the greatest novel. Clearly it was dictated to him by none other than Hugo Rune himself.

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Just because you're paranoid...

Read in glorious Brent-o-coustix (tm) by our beloved Mr Rankin himself! The man is, in the kindest sense, either mad, or a genius.

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Mostly drivel

I feel like I'd read Ian Rankin books in the past and quite enjoyed them, so I was excited to see I could read this one included in my membership. I can't seem to remember the titles I liked before...something about a chocolate bunny of the apocalypse? Anyway, 5 chapters in and it's just a weird stream of consciousness and I can't get into it. Sounds like grampa from Simpsons telling a story and getting lost on the way

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First book in a long time I couldn't finish

Maybe the writer should stick to writing rather than narration. Dreadful on all counts.

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