The story is quickly told: Marc-Uwe Kling himself (an avowed small artist) gets one day visit from his new neighbors: A kangaroo from Australia. But it's not just any old kangaroo, it is a communist marsupial liquor chocolates and eats like verbuchselt Wegstaben, uh letter confused and Nazis umhaut
Sure, sounds at first hearing something crazy but only because it is. But a talking, communist kangaroo that behaves like the last Ar ***, is in practice a humorous pleasure without equal. In addition to countless allusions to Brecht, Nietzsche and many other sizes of world literature, there are also swipes on movies (especially Bud Spencer and Terence Hill) or sometimes on video games. And of course the books are intended wonderful to read, but Kling's monotonous and slightly bored voice, coupled with its simple but effective kangaroo voice is simply awesome! The cynicism of him (and the kangaroo) comes across great, which is also related that he is a good reader. But the live audience is kind of funny to listen. I'm usually not a fan of live laughter (see Big Bang Theory or Two and a Half Man), but here it works somehow
Sometimes the small chapter ends somewhat abruptly, but mostly that too has a meaning, often a more profound than you might think at first. But you have to say, so stupid, some stories sound like initially, so clever and witty binds Kling several levels in his stories and I check far not everything is told in the audiobook. But that's in my eyes as impossible as if one would check all Family Guy Jokes
I for one just love the absurdity of it all, full of hatred of the two main characters to their environment and even though the two really what in the bulb, they are sometimes simply complete idiot and that makes the charm of this series of easy, I think ,
Conclusion: The kangaroo Chronicles includes four CDs with a total runtime of 291 minutes (70 minutes so as per CD) and is a great audio book! Looking forward now to the kangaroo Manifesto!
