The Iceboat: On the Road from London to Brazil

Name: The Iceboat: On the Road from London to Brazil
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

Lazlo Ferran

Apr 2010 · Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll – Pulling Down the Pants of Nick Kent and Jack Kerouac Book 1 · Lazlo Ferran

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The only reason anyone went out was to buy drinks in town. The tide of cans was always in on the studio floor.

With plenty of drugs, sex and rock and roll; The Ice Boat is a modern pop-culture odyssey.

Dave has almost got it all; with a rock star lifestyle, romance and a nice flat in London, he almost has the happiness he has worked for all his life. But his reluctance to compromise in love takes him away from London to disaster in Rio de Janeiro. Losing his identity, and his heart, to a scheming Brazilian siren, he manages to evade the corrupt music biz sharks and ends up living with three prostitutes in Amsterdam.

This book navigates the seedy underbelly of the music world like a nuclear submarine; magic mushrooms, cocaine, romantic pornography, pop culture freaks, toilet sex, public sex and laughing in the face of death all put in a glimmering appearance in this edgy, international road thriller.

Full of suspense and unresolved emotions, The Ice Boat is a real 20th Century odyssey that will have you laughing and crying. Somewhere between Ken Kesey or Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and Nick Kent’s Apathy for the Devil, it’s like a kind of two fingers up to those who mock real creativity and innocence in the performing arts.

Includes Chapter One of both the occult thriller Ordo Lupus and the Temple Gate AND Too Bright the Sun.

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Volume II is now available on Amazon.

Buy Volume I and II together in one book, The Ice Boat 2 in 1, to make a great saving!

Categories: fiction, thriller, pop culture, rock lifestyle, fun, comedy, racy, mountain, small town, suburban, urban.

Keywords: fun, London, sex and drugs and rock and roll, comedy, rock star, erotic, romance, rock n’ roll, henry chinaski, inuit, erection, bong, racy, magic mushroom, 420, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, hashish, ganga, weed, marijuana, acid, spliff, suburban, romantic, pornography, pop culture, philosophy, Charles bukowski, red light district, prostitution, urban, pop culture, freaks, small town, rock odyssey, nick kent, jack Kerouac, ken kesey

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Pedro Diaz

November 10, 2014

Surprisingly great read. This is not only a good story of a man finding his way in the world, but is filled with accurately complex psychological profiles of the various people one finds in life. Love transforms into betrayal not out of simple selfishness, but out of each person’s pathologic coping mechanisms as a result of their past. I felt and understood the different and unique thinking patterns of all of the characters. While confused and hurt repeatedly, the main character had an enviable ability to process events in a way free of angst and anxiety. Case in point: Dave arrives in Rio de Janeiro and is dumped on a dark street, luggage in hand, unable to speak the language, hungry, crime and destitution all around him, not knowing where he will sleep that night… I felt a panic within myself for him. Instead of worrying, he casually notices the street he is on is curving around into a rather interesting loop and just goes about his business. If only I could see the world in such a manner. I have read other works from this author, such as Too Bright the Sun, and how he can change from a hard SciFi action novel into this sensory overdrive fugue is beyond me.

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About the author

Lazlo Ferran: Exploring the Landscapes of Truth.

Educated near Oxford, during English author Lazlo Ferran’s extraordinary life, he has been an aeronautical engineering student, dispatch rider, graphic designer, full-time busker, guitarist and singer, recording two albums. Having grown up in rural Buckinghamshire Lazlo says:

“The beautiful Chiltern Hills offered the ideal playground for a child’s mind, in contrast to the ultra-strict education system of Bucks.”

Brought up as a Buddhist, he has travelled widely, surviving a student uprising in Athens and living for a while in Cairo, just after Sadat’s assassination. Later, he spent some time in Central Asia and was only a few blocks away from gunfire during an attempt to storm the government buildings of Bishkek in 2006. He has a keen interest in theologies and philosophies of the Far East, Middle East, Asia and Eastern Europe.

After a long and successful career within the science industry, Lazlo Ferran left to concentrate on writing, to continue exploring the landscapes of truth.

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