Help me identify this damn book!

[toman]

So a couple years back, I caught a couple installments of a very interesting audiobook on my local community radio station. I was never able to catch the name of the book or the author, (or maybe I was just too stoned, I dunno), but I'd like to find the book. I figure if anyplace someone here should recognize it! Here's what I remember about the story: It's narrated by this dude, who for whatever reason, is traveling in Morocco, and in particular Marrakesh. He's with some other people off and on, and I remember he ends up in a sucky hotel with a broken air conditioner at one point. The last I remember of the story is that they wind up at some crazy festival out in the country or something, with all sorts of drumming, dancing, psychedelics, etc. and it's pretty crazy. Sound familiar? :cheers:

[UnderTheRainbow]

I can't say I have any clue what you're talking about, but I did a search on it (my friends make me find books for them ALL the time, haha)...
Theres A Year In Marrakesh (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0907871089/sr=1-7/qid=1144684723/ref=sr_1_7/002-3105958-3968832?%5Fencoding=UTF8&s=books) by Peter Mayne...
The Voices Of Marrakesh: A Record Of A Visit (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0714525804/ref=pd_bxgy_text_b/002-3105958-3968832?%5Fencoding=UTF8) by Elias Canetti

And quite a few others... I just searched Morocco, Marrakesh (http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=nb_ss_b/002-3105958-3968832?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Marrakesh+Morocco&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go) on Amazon. Maybe it'll be *some* help.

[toman]

Amazon's a good idea, I'll check that out. I should mention that to the best of my knowledge this book is fiction, although I could be wrong.

[oldkzildjians]

hey toman, I'm not sure of the book you're talking about but the festival out in the country you speak of sounds like The Desert Music Festival. here's a link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Music_Festival

[toman]

Hey that's cool; wouldn't it be an experience to go to something like that. I'd love to go traveling in that part of the world... Too bad I'm poor. :-(

[redthewitch75]

Huh, that sounds so familiar...I don't know why...maybe something about Allen Ginsberg that I read? Well, I haven't a clue. :confused:

[oldkzildjians]

I'd love to go traveling in that part of the world...

I might go back to Ghana with a drummer friend to write a book on West African rhythms for drumset and if so we're gonna take a detour to that fest. The roads are so terrible though, that it'll probably take a week. What an adventure though! I'd better start saving up.

[toman]

Nice! A friend of mine spent some time in Mali, and picked up quite a bit of drumming skills there.

[FreedomEagle]

The last I remember of the story is that they wind up at some crazy festival out in the country or something, with all sorts of drumming, dancing, psychedelics, etc. and it's pretty crazy.

Sounds to me like Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun also Rises" but since it has not Marrekesh reference I don't think it is.


Alcohol and post-World War I anomie fuel the plot: weary of drinking and dancing in Paris cafés, the expatriate gang decamps for the Spanish town of Pamplona for the "wonderful nightmare" of a week-long fiesta.