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Title	:	Chronicles: Volume One
Author	:	Bob Dylan
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	September 13th 2005 by Simon Schuster (first published November 12th 2004)
Categories	:	Music. Nonfiction. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir

Chronicles: Volume One Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

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"I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else." So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles: Volume One, his remarkable book exploring critical junctures in his life and career.

Through Dylan's eyes and open mind, we see Greenwich Village, circa 1961, when he first arrives in Manhattan. Dylan's New York is a magical city of possibilities -- smoky, nightlong parties; literary awakenings; transient loves and unbreakable friendships. Elegiac observations are punctuated by jabs of memories, penetrating and tough. With the book's side trips to New Orleans, Woodstock, Minnesota and points west, Chronicles: Volume One is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times.

By turns revealing, poetical, passionate and witty, Chronicles: Volume One is a mesmerizing window on Bob Dylan's thoughts and influences. Dylan's voice is distinctively American: generous of spirit, engaged, fanciful and rhythmic. Utilizing his unparalleled gifts of storytelling and the exquisite expressiveness that are the hallmarks of his music, Bob Dylan turns Chronicles: Volume One into a poignant reflection on life, and the people and places that helped shape the man and the art.

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Original Title:	Chronicles: Volume One
ISBN:	0743244583 (ISBN13: 9780743244589)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Bob Dylan
Setting:	United States of America
Literary Awards:	Audie Award for Biography/Memoir (2005), Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album (2006), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Biography (2004)

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I really want to talk with Dylan And it happened. That's what it feels like when you get under the bed covers with this book, no sound but a cricket buzz outside the window. His words come out at you like his music. Unpretentious, romantic. Funny like a Woody Allen movie. It feels like any minute that gravel voice will start whispering out of the pages to you. A genius talking about his inspiration. What more could you want? So, what inspired him? Better yet, what didn't? Everything's flowed

If you are looking for a straight up biography, this isn't for you. Dylan's style of writing is very disjointed and can take some getting used to, but overall the book is very well written. There is a segment on how he came to put together his album "Oh Mercy" which was very interesting but not one of his albums I was well versed in. Unfortunately he doesn't really discuss his other albums. He does talk a great deal about all of his influences (the name dropping this man can do is unreal) and

It wasn't really that much of a surprise that Bob Dylan's music is more interesting than Bob Dylan. While this book had its good moments, a lot of the time its anecdotes went nowhere and I was left wondering what the point was. He did seem to use the word "reality" a lot. No offence, I'm a huge fan, but Bob Dylan is not a great writer and even though he's telling you about his influences, you don't learn much about him or his inspirations. He doesn't even name his wife - she's just "my wife." I

Im going to do something I try not to do here, since I consider this to be a site about other peoples words- Im going to ramble on autobiographically for a bit.I bought this first volume of Dylans Chronicles the day it came out in 2004, was anticipating the hell out of it. Back then I was managing a used record store in College Park, Maryland. I studied poetry and creative writing at UMD, big waste of my time, couldve learned all that on my own, learn more now on my own than I did then anyway,

After being on my to read shelf for a while, this book jumped up a couple spots when Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for literature. He didnt win the prize because of this autobiography or for his novel, but rather for the lyrics he wrote down and then placed over music. This autobiography is well written and honest, but it is disjointed at times and didnt tell me much about the things I thought I wanted to know about. I wanted to know what Dylan was thinking when he wrote songs like Blowin' in

I'm really not a big Dylan fan per se, but that he is an amazing poet cannot be denied. Once upon a time I played a mediocre rendition of "like a rolling stone," mostly because I fell in love with this lyric:You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomatWho carried on his shoulder a Siamese catAin't it hard when you discover thatHe really wasn't where it's atAfter he took from you everything he could steal.No idea where he comes up with this shit, but it's brilliant. Actually, in

I have to be careful with music. I'm vulnerable as a listener in a way that I'm not vulnerable to other kinds of art. Rousseau tells us that music is capable of communicating truth directly, or perhaps it would be better to put it that music permits one to experience truth itself. Words, he says, merely present one with the representation of phenomenal reality, the likeness of truth. I often think about this lesson when I've been incautious as a listener.My relationship with music is the exact