Take a tour of Mike Tyson's abandoned mansion. More photos can be found here. For some reason, these photos make me think that you could write a post-apocalyptic novel with a celebrity-obsessed narrator who travels through the bleak, ash-covered landscape of a future North America not looking for food and safety, as in Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road – perviously discussed here – but looking to sleep in the derelict homes of Hollywood stars. He (or she) camps out in Kiefer Sutherland's old living room – before heading out, armed with a Star Map™, to find the abandoned hillside home of Jessica Alba. After this, she (or he) goes cross-country, following clues that will lead him (or her) to the half-collapsed mansions of Simon Cowell... The New York Times calls the book a "prescient exploration of personal meaning in a time when myths are no longer to be found"; it is "a 21st-century Don Quixote." McSweeney's finds it "hilarious." Dave Eggers adds that he "liked the book so much I stood up and did a war dance around it."

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6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I can't see any of the pics from Tyson's home. :(

July 21, 2008 8:11 AM  
Blogger Geoff Manaugh said...

Try clicking on the link.

July 21, 2008 8:12 AM  
Anonymous Adrian Giddings said...

Geoff, I think your coverage may have crashed the site :) or :(

July 21, 2008 9:00 AM  
Anonymous Johnny Q. said...

That was fascinating. The land that time (and taste) forgot. I hope it stays relatively untouched. The feel I got from those images was of this howardhughesian figure, bitterly wandering around his derelict mansion, firing a 9-millimeter at his 6-foot television...

I'd like to read that book, too. :)

July 21, 2008 10:50 PM  
Anonymous Olliffs Antiques said...

So much bad taste all in one place!

July 22, 2008 2:32 AM  
Anonymous Danny said...

That's 20 minutes from my house..

July 28, 2008 3:08 PM  

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