The Zany Time Travels of Warble McGorkle
Podiobooks.com presents Blackbird Crow Raven’s history-bending romp through time, “The Zany Time Travels of Warble McGorkle.”
Warble Poundcake McGorkle’s meddling in events during the American Revolutionary War, at Custer’s Last Stand, the Alamo, Woodstock, and many other pivotal events — as well as a detour to 1st Century Jerusalem to kidnap Jesus (or Judas) — leads to catastrophic consequences for those living in modern times.
February 28th, 2007 at 10:37 am
I guess I have a different idea about zany. I’m in 3 chapters & so far most of the humor is pretty lame. I’ll keep trying a few more episodes but…..
March 3rd, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Well I finished the book, but by the end I was sludging through it. Such ridiculously small episodes are annoying some are just a minute and a half long. And I just don’t think it’s very zany either. In fact I’d say it’s even a bit racist, he slammed Mexicans pretty hard in a non funny way. So ya kinda disappointed by the whole thing.
March 5th, 2007 at 8:03 am
Barry,
Regarding your charge that my book is racist: Nothing could be further from the truth. You completely missed the point if you think that.
Warble is an anti-hero. It should quickly become obvious that everything he says is wrong, every opinion reprehensible. HE is racist, yes, but the book itself, no way.
March 5th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Oops, soory about that Barry, the above note should have been addressed to “The Red Chef”
May 28th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
So this looks like a very interesting book, but what’s up with starting with Book II of a trilogy? I might go buy Book I, but is that what I’m supposed to do?
Mike
July 11th, 2007 at 6:44 am
Book I was finished a few years ago; you can download it (.PDF files) free from www.winsite.com
Search for “The Two Warbles”
July 11th, 2007 at 6:47 am
Or, if you want a hard copy, you can buy either of the first two Wacky Warble volumes from www.lulu.com/blackbirdcraven
I also have a new non-fiction book available there, namely: PROFILES IN CORRUPTION: Liars, Thieves, Traitors, Adulterers, and Murderers in the White House:
www.lulu.com/content/925361
October 20th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
another podiobook audition, and i’m just sitting here baffled again. somebody listened to these audio files and said, “yep, ready to ship!”? if there’s a rational reason why the voice should be panned almost all the way to one side, i sure would be curious to hear it. not interested in having my left ear blown out for hours though.
dunno, but i’d think if you’re obviously on the newbie side of audio, you’d try to play it straight. seems the reality is often the reverse. one more podiobook i won’t listen to. and yeah, the short chapters, complete with header and “welcome back” blip, are doubleplus ludicrous. this is a joke, right?
sure makes one appreciate the producers who do it right. fortunately, podiobooks has enough of them.
November 4th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Charley, you neurotic freak, shut up and stop leaving horrible, irrelevant comments. Newsflash: the audio is not that important- Gasp! Yeah, dude, to normal people, who aren’t techie nerds, as long as the story is audible and not painful, who gives a crap? Get over it. This is a book- the most important thing is the tale, and even then, it’s freakin’ free, so if you find something you don’t like, turn it off. You haven’t lost anything. Get some help man. You’ve got some serious problems. This book is funny- that part with the childish Mexicans was great.
November 4th, 2007 at 11:49 am
if you can indicate rationally how my comment was irrelevant, please do.
if true, please don’t tell those many podiobook producers who obviously believe otherwise.
competence and perspicacity apparently being chief among them.
April 19th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Given my interest in time travel, this was one of the first titles I selected for consideration as a cabbage.
You might read the full review at the Podiobooks Community.
In summary, I awarded it two out of five possible cabbages. The title is not terrible in toto but requires significant intervention.