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2 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Not garbage... Apr 15, 2006
Recently reading this book, I found an enlightning insight to Dylan's mind and his metaphors. As far as Weberman never talking to Dylan himself, this is a falsehood. I know of a field trip he took to Dylan's property with some students taking a 'Dylanology' class outside university. Weberman took the students on his land and Dylan came out and chased them off, exchanging names and commotion about drug use.
Also, at one point, Dylan tried to give AJ Weberman a position as a music analysist in a newspaper, but he declined saying that he only wanted Dylan to write meaningful work.
Finally, I think they were friends at one point, but a fall out occured with the creation and execution of garbology.
I'll read it again. It's not fact, but a great read on an amazing poet.
4 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 Garbage in, garbage out Mar 29, 2006
This book came from Dylan's garbage and that's what it is...
just a lot of words "interpreted" by this man who has never
had a conversation with his subject. He has traded on Dylan
for years and has nothing NOTHING to contribute to any understanding of Bob Dylan. Listen to Dylan's work yourself
and/or read real books about the man if you want to acquire
some understanding of this artist.
Whatever you paid for this book.....you were robbed!
3 of 5 found the following review helpful:
ARE MISSING PUZZLE PIECES IN THIS BOOK OR IS WEBERMAN A CROOK? Feb 01, 2006
I first came across the Dylan To English Dictionary while reading the International Herald Tribune in Paris about two weeks ago. The author of the article that originally came from the NY Times seemed to have liked the book as the article was titled, "The Answer is Blowin In This Book" so when I returned to the US I purchased it despite the fact that I have never been a big fan of its author, privacy-invader Weberman. I read the introduction then looked at various words and the verses that were interpreted some of which I was familiar with from listening to Dylan. They made sense and when I looked up the words that made them make sense these words made sense. But then I would have to go on and on to really find out if IT ALL MADE SENSE and this were impossible. So I made that leap of faith and zowey, Weberman seems to have somehow gotten into Dylan's mind as a lot of these interpretations follow Dylan's life while others reveal a life that Weberman has either imagined or exposed.
3 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 DYLAN TO ENGLISH DICTIONARY Jan 02, 2006
I think the Dylan to English Dictionary is a good representation of what the Shakespeare of the now generation is all about!!!
The Dylan to English Dictionary shows that Bob Dylan utilizes his metaphors which are rooted in speech that goes back to Elizabethan times on one hand and semantics which relate a story in the Washington Post on the other.... his themes do relate to many eras of time which Weberman seems to have lived through. For example, "Talking John Birch Society Blues" deals with the red scare, which was evident during the cold war in the early 60's. in fact, Ed Sullivan's censors banned it from his show resulting in his walking out of the studio...the song was an attack on those "saw a commie under every bed"!
On the other hand, "One More Cup of Coffee for the Road" seems to have cantorial background music yet Weberman translates it as Dylan saying bye bye to Judaism, while "Sad-eyed Lady of the Lowlands" which filled one side a vinyl lp of "Blonde on Blonde" was supposedly written in honor of Sara, his first wife, while he was hanging out in the Chelsea hotel, yet Weberman translates it about being about America.
There are many examples of the directions that Dylan's music has taken!!! Such as "George Jackson" representing the struggle of the Black Panther Party, or "you gotta serve somebody" dealing with his born-again period in the early 80's or when we would see Dylan reinventing himself as he would perform with the Grateful Dead or Tom Petty...the dictionary gives us a look at all these periods.
Dylan along with the Beatles represents a super-influence, which is still being felt by musicians and other adherents of the performing arts!!! In fact, a lot of the moneys generated from the sales of this book do support a good cause!!!
Fighting hate!!! In essence it means fighting Nazis, the same mentality of scum who tried to murder both my parents.
7 of 12 found the following review helpful:
the highest level esoteric truth about dylan Dec 01, 2005
This is a terrific masterpiece of N-dimensional analysis. If you want to understand the esoteric inner meaning of Dylan's lyrics, steal this book! If you want to grasp the mundane surface meaning of Dylan's lyrics, purloin this book! If you want to understand how Dylan communicates with the mothership, grab this book and run! If you want to learn how to get even with Dylan after he chased you down the street with a baseball bat simply because you were engaging in innocent garbological research, legally, on a public sidewalk outside his house, shoplift this book! If you want to learn why AJ is convinced Dylan is the greatest American poet since Ginsburg even though Dylan won't talk to AJ, burglarize the publisher's warehouse and scamper away with this book! If you want to find out why Dylan wants to send AJ to the Prison of Askaban for eternal torment by dementers, stick up Barnes & Noble and do your getaway in a stolen police car with this book! If you want to know what Dylan was doing on the grassy knoll with E. Howard Hunt and Lyndon LaRouche in 1963, well, get this book by hook or crook and do your own research--go where no Dylanologist has ever gone before, even AJ Weberman--into the farthest reaches of Dylan's occult code language (and the inmost depths of Dylan's garbage can if it's not locked)!
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