MYSTERIOUS MATTERS OF MAX METTERS by Peter Gelman (audiobook podcast)

MYSTERIOUS MATTERS OF MAX METTERS by Peter Gelman (audiobook podcast)

MYSTERIOUS MATTERS OF MAX METTERS: Peter Gelman's punk rock romantic novel of the 1980s. It uses a vigorous word-crushing "maximalist" approach to prose fiction, in defiance of the era's terse, inexpressive, helpless, despairing "minimalism". Passion, philosophy, fisticuffs and word ferment.... A podcast audiobook in 21 chapters (plus 1, the introduction). Recording progress now (2013). Written in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, in 1990-1991. Now available as a paper book in popular bookstores, as well as an Ebook for Kindle, Nook and other formats. Website: DangerQuestMysteries.com . Purchase book: Tinyurl.com/MaxMetters

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MYSTERIOUS MATTERS OF MAX METTERS 10

May 1, 2013 • 43 mins
This is narration of Chapter 9 of the novel MYSTERIOUS MATTERS OF MAX METTERS by PETER GELMAN. This is the climax of the first half of the novel. Chapter description: "When I'm old they can pull me up like a coelacanth and say, 'Hey man I thought all you punk rockers was x-tinct stuffed and mounted in the Smithsonian parking lot right after the moon rockets." "Oceans and beaches of the she-shore--she leavened her dreamy br...
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MYSTERIOUS MATTERS OF MAX METTERS 09

April 29, 2013 • 14 mins
This is narration of Chapter 8 of the novel MYSTERIOUS MATTERS OF MAX METTERS by PETER GELMAN. Chapter description: Oh curling land! How groan my heavy! How lusty my fatso! Sometimes Meri's ears are pincushions. Sometimes they are anvils. Yes, Max loves Meri and tries to understand her, but she makes him distracted and lazy! She doesn't tell him her secret. She was a smudged postage cancellation from Mystery Town. Meanwhi...
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MYSTERIOUS MATTERS OF MAX METTERS 08

April 18, 2013 • 24 mins
This is narration of Chapter 7 of the novel MYSTERIOUS MATTERS OF MAX METTERS by PETER GELMAN. Chapter description: Max remembers his childhood sense of history, the first time he heard rock and roll, and an artifact he found. Meri arrives and as always, the momentum toward romance goes in wildly unexpected directions. The length of this episode is about 25 minutes. Due to language and situations it is not for kids. Novel ...
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MYSTERIOUS MATTERS OF MAX METTERS 07

April 8, 2013 • 9 mins
This is narration of Chapter 6 of the novel MYSTERIOUS MATTERS OF MAX METTERS by PETER GELMAN. Chapter description: Arthur ambushes his buddy Max in the dark, and tries to tell him a secret about Meri. This is a short chapter. Novel description: Passion, philosophy, fisticuffs and word ferment... This is a “boy meets girl” story. Max discovers that Meri has a secret. He gives her every chance to tell it. Defiant, he even ...
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MYSTERIOUS MATTERS OF MAX METTERS 06

April 2, 2013 • 18 mins
This is narration of Chapter 5 of the novel MYSTERIOUS MATTERS OF MAX METTERS by PETER GELMAN. Chapter description: Max takes Meri to Lafcadio's Open Mike Night. Max and friends improvise "an experiment in bad rock-and-parole" (including "twicky twicky in the night"). Arthur wants to talk to Max but Max avoids him. Then Max and Meri walk through the snow to see a movie and figure out how to talk to each other. Novel descri...
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MYSTERIOUS MATTERS OF MAX METTER 05

March 27, 2013 • 34 mins
This is narration of Chapter 4 of the novel MYSTERIOUS MATTERS OF MAX METTERS by PETER GELMAN. Chapter description: The winter is too long... So Max, Lafcadio and Tim play chess, wager, argue about big subjects, ("a half-assed intellectual madness", yell spontaneous poems, and with wild words--even made-up new words--set the CITY on FIRE! This is a longer, more maximialist chapter. Novel description: Passion, philosophy, f...
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MYSTERIOUS MATTERS OF MAX METTERS 04

January 20, 2013 • 10 mins
This is narration of Chapter 3 of the novel MYSTERIOUS MATTERS OF MAX METTERS by PETER GELMAN. Chapter description: Max calls Meri for the first time. What happens surprises him, and then surprises him again. This is a short chapter. Novel description: Passion, philosophy, fisticuffs and word ferment... This is a “boy meets girl” story. Max discovers that Meri has a secret. He gives her every chance to tell it. Defiant, he...
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MYSTERIOUS MATTERS OF MAX METTERS 03

December 20, 2012 • 10 mins
This is narration of Chapter 2 of the novel MYSTERIOUS MATTERS OF MAX METTERS by PETER GELMAN. Chapter description: A turbulence of omens and dreams starts to shake Max's winter reveries. This is a short chapter. Novel description: Passion, philosophy, fisticuffs and word ferment... This is a “boy meets girl” story. Max discovers that Meri has a secret. He gives her every chance to tell it. Defiant, he even fights friends ...
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MYSTERIOUS MATTERS OF MAX METTERS 02

December 12, 2012 • 22 mins
This is narration of Chapter 1 of the novel MYSTERIOUS MATTERS OF MAX METTERS by PETER GELMAN. Novel description: Passion, philosophy, fisticuffs and word ferment... This is a “boy meets girl” story. Max discovers that Meri has a secret. He gives her every chance to tell it. Defiant, he even fights friends who try to warn him. Max vibrates with energy and feeling, an unrealistic way to live. This leads to troubled lo...
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MYSTERIOUS MATTERS OF MAX METTERS 01

November 27, 2012 • 14 mins
This is an introduction to the novel MYSTERIOUS MATTERS OF MAX METTERS by PETER GELMAN. It explains how and why I came to write it in 1991 Mexico. I talk about "maximalist" and "minimalist" literary styles. (Previous name: Skull of the Robot.) The narration of the story begins in episode 2. Novel description: Passion, philosophy, fisticuffs and word ferment... This is a “boy meets girl” story. Max discovers that Meri...
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