
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber
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An award-wining and "outrageously entertaining" true crime story (San Francisco Chronicle) about the professional hockey player-turned-bank robber whose bizarre and audacious crime spree galvanized Hungary in the decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain.
During the 1990s, while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest, Attila Ambrus took up bank robbery to make ends meet. Arrayed against him was perhaps the most incompetent team of crime investigators the Eastern Bloc had ever seen: a robbery chief who had learned how to be a detective by watching dubbed Columbo episodes; a forensics man who wore top hat and tails on the job; and a driver so inept he was known only by a Hungarian word that translates to Mound of Ass-Head.
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber is the completely bizarre and hysterical story of the crime spree that made a nobody into a somebody, and told a forlorn nation that sometimes the brightest stars come from the blackest holes. Like The Professor and the Madman and The Orchid Thief, Julian Rubinstein's bizarre crime story is so odd and so wicked that it is completely irresistible.
"A whiz-bang read...Hilarious and oddly touching...Rubinstein writes in a guns-ablazing style that perfectly fits the whiskey robber's tale."—Salon
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"Rubinstein has found a story of the sort that would make even the most dry-mouthed journalist slobber. Sometimes sad, often hilarious and always absurd, Ambrus's tale microcosmically condenses the politico-historic oddities of his place and era into one entertaining and tidy narrative... With a keen eye for the ridiculous, fearlessly high-speed prose and an extraordinary wealth of reported detail, Rubinstein conducts the affair like an unusually thoughtful carnival barker."—New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)
"Outrageously entertaining... An essential absurdism is never far from the surface... A rip-roaring cops and robbers saga with a Mitteleuropean heart."—San Francisco Chronicle
"The antagonistic protagonist of Julian Rubinstein's picaresque romp is a real person who defies belief... Rubinstein rides the momentum in appropriately riotous fashion, but he wisely never lets his vivid style overshadow a tale that burns up the pages on its own momentum. Nor does he succumb to sentimentality when exploring the tale's pathos—and believe it or not, there's as much of that as there is burlesque. A memorable tragicomedy."—Boston Globe
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Attila Ambrus (aka the Chicky Panther) brazen robberies were successful due to careful planning, timely execution, 4 shots of whiskey and a police force incapable of catching a cold, but it was his affable personality and steely determination that made him the antihero that the people of Hungary took to admire so much.
The production was unique and the segue music by One Ring Zero has made me a new fan of theirs .
Attila the Hungarian
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Great listen!
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Go whiskey robber
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However, while the acting and narration is good, the fake hungarian accents are distracting (and sound more russian than hungarian).
Most importantly, all the hungarian words in the book (there are many!!!) are pronounced wrong. It would have been nice to have a narrator who either learns how to pronounce the words he's reading or someone who already knows how to pronounce them.
Overall, I still highly recommend this audiobook!
great narration with flaws
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Interesting
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What an unexpected delight!
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A captivating listen
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Excellent!
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Where does Ballad of the Whiskey Robber rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
1st one everWhat was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?
The presence of many different narrators like an audio soap operaWhich scene was your favorite?
When Attila escapes from jailDid you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Not extreme, it was really enjoyable, it made me laughAny additional comments?
Keep writing on true crime....Great! Great! Great! Great! Great!
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