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Threshold
Threshold | Rob Doyle
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An uninhibited, profound, compulsive read that's like travelling with your wildest and most philosophical friend. Our narrator has spent the last two decades travelling, writing and imbibing drugs and literature in equally vast doses. Now, stranded between reckless youth and middle age, his travels to far-flung places have acquired a de facto purpose: to aid the contemporary artist's search for universal truth. From Buddhist serenity to the brink of madness, with one foot in reality and one firmly in the hallucinatory beyond, Threshold explores the club-drug communalism of the Berlin underworld, the bizarro experience of literary tourism in Paris, and the shattering and world-rebuilding revelations brought on by the psychedelic DMT, the so-called 'spirit molecule'. Funny, colourful, surreal, depraved and profound, Threshold is a celebration of what is here and what is beyond our comprehension, and confirms Doyle as one of the most original writers in contemporary literature.
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Threshold | Rob Doyle
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I would class this as following a through line of Henry Miller, the Beats, and Hunter S Thompson. This raw and honest book (I'm not sure novel is the right word) will make you laugh, cry and think. Ranging from anecdotes to philosophical musings, Threshold scratches the itch for Gonzo journalism. If you liked Fear and Loathing, you'll love this book!