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The Jerusalem Syndrome: My Life as a Reluctant Messiah Audiobook, by Marc Maron Play Audiobook Sample

The Jerusalem Syndrome: My Life as a Reluctant Messiah Audiobook

The Jerusalem Syndrome: My Life as a Reluctant Messiah Audiobook, by Marc Maron Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Marc Maron Publisher: Random House Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 2.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 1.63 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: April 2013 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780385366335

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

37

Longest Chapter Length:

08:06 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

10 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

05:20 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

2

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Publisher Description

By the author of Attempting Normal and host of the podcast WTF with Marc Maron, The Jerusalem Syndrome is The Gospel according to Maron: a spiritual memoir of your average hyperintelligent, ultraneurotic, superhip Jewish standup comedian and seeker.  The Jerusalem Syndrome is a genuine psychological phenomenon that often strikes visitors to the Holy Land_the delusion that they are suddenly direct vessels for the voice of God. Marc Maron seems to have a distinctly American version of the Jerusalem Syndrome, which has led him on a lifelong quest for religious significance and revelation in the most unlikely of places. Maron riffs on Beat phenomena with its sacred texts, established rituals, and prescribed pilgrimages. He spends some time exploring the dark side of things, as his obsessions with cocaine (known to Maron as “magic powder”), conspiracy theories, and famous self-destructive comedians convince him that the gates of hell open beneath Los Angeles. As his quest matures, he reveals the religious aspects of Corporate America, pontificating on the timeless beauty of the Coca-Cola logo and even taking a trip to the Philip Morris cigarette factory, where the workers puff their own products with a zealot-like fervor. The culmination of Maron’s Jerusalem Syndrome comes during his own tour of the Holy Land, where, with Sony camcorder glued to his eye socket, he comes face-to-face with his own ambiguous relationship to Judaism and reaches the brink of spiritual revelation_or is it nervous breakdown? Marc Maron has considerably adapted and expanded his praised one-man show to craft a genuine literary memoir. Whether he’s a genuine prophet or a neurotic mess, he’ll make you laugh as you question the meaning of life. “Marc Maron is blazingly smart, rapid-fire, and very funny . . . A brilliant and relentless screed.” –David Rakoff, author of FraudMarc Maron is the first crazy person I’ve ever envied. In his brainiac-memoir-meets-hilarious-travelogue, he demonstrates the ability to tell a story with an extraordinary provocative intelligence that is regrettably shared by few.” _ Janeane Garofolo, comedian

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“Marc Maron is the first crazy person I’ve ever envied. Inhis brainiac-memoir-meets-hilarious-travelogue, he demonstrates the ability totell a story with an extraordinary provocative intelligence that is regrettablyshared by few.”

— Janeane Garofolo, comedian

Quotes

  • “Marc Maron is blazingly smart, rapid-fire, and very funny…A brilliant and relentless screed.”

    — David Rakoff, New York Times bestselling author of Fraud
  • “If a book promises to take me on a spiritual journey, you’d think I’d go with some lily-livered sap from the self-help aisle? Nope, the only seeker I’d trust is wisecracking, chain-smoking comedian Mark Maron.”

    — Sarah Vowell, New York Times bestselling author of The Cannoli
  • “[A] picaresque adventure.”

    — Amazon.com, editorial review
  • “Maron is compelling.”

    — Publishers Weekly
  • “A bright light in the ‘alternative’ branch of standup comedy.”

    — Kirkus Reviews

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About Marc Maron

Marc Maron, a stand-up comedian, is host of the Marc Maron Show, and co-host of both Morning Sedition and Breakroom Live. He has been a frequent guest on the Late Show with David Letterman and made more than forty appearances on Late Night with Conan O’Brian, more than any other stand-up performer. He lives in Los Angeles.