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    <body><![CDATA[I have to give this four stars because of the profound influence it had on me the year or so after I read it. It's a silly book, to be honest. I was surprised that even Greil Marcus would go quite so far out on such an esoteric and wobbly premise. Bob Dylan and the Band's Basement Tapes as a portal ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5374106">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is pretty cool.  One of Dylan's most mythical albums is the Basement Tapes.  Most fans know the story:  After the fabled motorcycle accident disabled the dude and turned him into a recluse he healed and reared a family somewhere in Woodstock.  Sometime during this period he and The Band (w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4198960">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I saw Greil Marcus come and speak to promote the release of this book.  It was fascinating.  He's been studying the Basement Tapes since before they were commercially released and he has a lot of ideas and suspicious <em>connections</em> to talk about.  As some random guy in a coffee shop told me when he saw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70639963">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book displays all of Greil Marcus's strengths and weaknesses.  It is ostensibly a book about the Band's and Bob Dylan's work creating The Basement Tapes.  But it is more about the history of land-deals and inter-kinship strife and the move away from subsistence farming to industrial labor in an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38862288">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is what seems to be a word-for-word reissue of Marcus’s Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes, confusingly given a completely different title. In the Author’s Note, Marcus says this is the title he originally wanted to give it. I have to say, they still got it wrong. The new subt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47918318">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A whole book about one (double) record album.  Of course, if there were ever an album that you could right so much about, The Basement Tapes would be it.  Still, it seems that the author reads an awful lot into what Dylan and the band say was often spontaneous humor.  That's the post modern approach...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68829940">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[You'd discuss of politics in the morning, listen to music in the afternoon, there was no separation between these two worlds. To me, it was normal and I was really surprised when, beginning to write, I realised that nobody took it into consideration, and music was kept apart from politics or social ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18058348">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Typically wide-ranging riff from Marcus on the hidden currents of Appalachian folk music and how they found their way into the 1960s culture via Dylan.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A nonfiction about Dylan and The Band's Basement Tape recordings, and the influences that set the stage for them, that reads like a novel. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Greil is crazy but occasionally he writes well about his crazy views. I'd like to be his friend so I could steal his enviable Basement Tapes collections! ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As good of a writer as Greil Marcus is, you gotta be even more of a Dylan freak than I to really enjoy this page to page, cover to cover.  There are some inspired segments, however.  <br/><br/>Note: Realize that it's more about Harry Smith, his Anthology of American Folk Music, and the &quot;old, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/580062">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The prospect of one of the best writers on rock music breaking down one of Dylan's most important recordings had me salivating. But, this is an odd book. I mean, there's more here about Dock Boggs than the Basement Tapes. Marcus is always interesting but, here, he may be beyond me. I wanted to read ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51663192">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's typical Marcus, with its leaning toward the epic/mythic side of things (and Marcus's related ability to write it so well that you get carried to that scope in your thinking, too). The section on Dock Boggs is esp. interesting.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know. The section about Harry Smith's &quot;Anthology of American Folk Music&quot; was great, and so was the intro about Dylan as rabble-rouser in 1966, but the rest....meh. Marcus likes to take really huge esoteric leaps and then talk about them for dozens of pages as if they make sense, or...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28509947">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Should you decide take a trip to Greil Marcus' Invisible Republic, be ready for some detours to Tangent City--yeesh! Though tedious at times, on the whole I found Mr. Marcus' tour of some of American culture's weirdest, darkest corners to be a fascinating and enriching journey. <br/><br/>I would r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5884514">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading this for a class I'll be teaching/assisting for the author this fall at The New School. This was an enlightening course on the strange, weird parallel universe of rebels, outcasts, lovers, murders, songwriters, folksingers, marginalia, and how the streams of consciousness throughout particul...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4251874">more...</a>]]></body>
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