Blue Highways: A Journey Into America
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That unexcelled exploration of our nation based on a 13,000-mile journey in a Ford van along back roads (printed in blue on ancient maps) is available for the first time in a trade paperback edition that replicates the style and design of the original hardcover. Photographs and maps.Amazon.com Review
First published in 1982, William Least Heat-Moon’s account of his journey along the back roads of the United States (marked with the color blue on ancient highway maps) has become something of a classic. When he loses his job and his wife on the same cold February day, he is struck by inspiration: “A man who couldn’t make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. block routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.”
Driving cross-country in a van named Ghost Dancing, Heat-Moon (the name the Sioux give to the moon of midsummer nights) meets up with all manner of folk, from a man in Grayville, Illinois, “whose cap told me what fertilizer he used” to Scott Chisholm, “a Canadian citizen … [who] had lived in this country longer than in Canada and liked the United States but wouldn’t admit it for dread of having to pay off bets he made years earlier when he first ‘came over’ that the U.S. is a place no Canadian could ever like.” Accompanied by his photographs, Heat-Moon’s literary portraits of ordinary Americans should not be merely read, but savored.
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I was forced to read this book as part of my english gifted and talented class. It was the slowest, longest, worst written book ever! The best part of the book was the end. It finished! Finally, a long book about nothing. I will NEVER read this book again and I DON’T encourage anyone else to read this. PLEASE save yourselves the boredom and stupidity that comes from this book. This guy has nothing better to do than go around in small boondocks in the US and force people to have conversations with him. It’s irritating. It’s dull. Please do yourselves some excellent and read cool books like Les Miserables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, A tale of Two Cities, and additional classics.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
(Make that star rating up there NEGATIVE 5 stars) I can’t judge I’m really taking the time to write this for such an dreadful book, but I read all of the additional reviews here and I can’t know why everyone thinks this book is so incredible. I thought it was the most uninteresting, torturous book I have ever read. If this book is any indication of what Heat-Moon’s personality and his English classes were like, I know why he was laid off (and why his wife cheated on him!). 400-something pages of grueling, thick, unconnected text ruined my entire summer and ruined any previous desire that I might have had to travel cross-country. I would not recommend this book to anyone; I reflect it should be ruined.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Though I cannot, at the moment, cite a better alternative because I haven’t yet read any, I am sure they do exist. At least let’s hope so…
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I had distress staying awake for this one. I was like watching paint dry. I get giddy just thinking about it. I seen a better written book on teletubbies. Do not buy this book!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I GOT HALF WAY THROUGH THE BOOK AND IT NO LONGER HELD MY INTEREST. WHAT I WANTED TO GET FROM THIS BOOK WAS MORE LOCAL DISCRIPTION OF THE PLACES VISITED AND NOT THE GOINGS ON ABOUT WHAT THE AUTHOR WAS THINKING THE WHOLE TIME. I WANTED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ‘BLUE HIGHWAYS’ AND THE TOWNS BECAUSE I CAN’T TAKE THE TRIPS MYSELF. IT LEFT ME FEELING THAT THE SOUTH WAS AND STILL IS AN AWFUL PLACE TO LIVE.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5