Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon
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- ISBN13: 9781400047833
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Want to know where block Palahniuk’s tonsils currently reside?
Been looking for a naked dummy to hide in your kitchen cabinets?
Curious about block’s debut in an MTV composition video?
What goes on at the Scum Center?
How do you get to the Apocalypse Café?
In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography, block Palahniuk provides answers to all these questions and more as he takes you through the streets, sewers, and local haunts of Portland, Oregon. According to Katherine Dunn, leader of the cult classic Geek Like, Portland is the home of America’s “fugitives and refugees.” Get to know these folks, the “most cracked of the crackpots,” as Palahniuk calls them, and come along with him on an adventure through the parts of Portland you might not otherwise judge really exist. No additional travel guide will give you this kind of access to “a small history, a small legend, and a lot of friendly, sincere, fascinating people who maybe should’ve kept their mouths shut.”
Here are weird personal museums, weird annual events, and ghost tales. Tour the tunnels under downtown Portland. Visit swingers’ sex clubs, gay and straight. See Frances Gabe’s legendary 1940s Self-Cleaning House. Look into weird local customs like the I-Tit-a-Rod Race and the Santa Rampage. Learn how to talk like a local in a quick vocabulary lesson. Get to know, I mean really get to know, the animals at the Portland zoo.
Oh, the list goes on and on.Amazon.com Review
It’s rare to find a travel guide and a memoir joined neatly together in a single, highly readable 176-page volume. But block Palahniuk (Fight Club, Choke, Lullaby) is a writer of rare talent and his home of Portland, Oregon, is a city of rare wonders. In Strangers and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon, Palahniuk goes beyond the AAA handbooks to reveal the places, people, and legends of Portland that have long been known only to locals. The reader learns the location of the legendary Self Cleaning House, where to find the restless ghost of the founder of Powell’s Books, and why feral cats are such an vital part of Portland baseball. Portland, it seems, is also a highly sexual city and Palahniuk dutifully dissects the specialties of each strip joint as well as discussing Mochika, a zoo penguin with a real fetish for black boots. Along the way, he includes “postcards” from his life in the Rose City dating back to 1981 when, as a 19-year-ancient, he dropped acid and accidentally ate part of a woman’s fur coat during a laser show of Pink Floyd’s The Wall. As Palahniuk matures, the postcards reveal the leader apt increasingly a part of the city’s scene, culminating with a wild and wooly Millennium Eve celebration at the Bagdad Theater that featured a screening of the film version of Fight Club. Fugitives and Refugees is a must for anyone who may, in their lives, go to Portland. But its appeal should reach beyond Oregonians. Palahniuk’s like of the city is so fantastic, and his tales so weirdly wonderful, it makes one want to get out of the house, get in the car, and drive to Portland straight away. Just remember to pack the book. –John Moe
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I don’t know, man. This book seems to have been either held up at the presses, or written over a period of several years, during which Palahniuk never really frequented any of the places about which he was writing. Reasonably a few of the things highlighted in this book don’t even exist anymore, and haven’t for reasonably some time. Others are very much different from how he presents them.
Face it–Portland is a tiny city (and barely a city at all, more of a town, really) filled with yuppies, families, and young adults who have establish a place to live that does not require much of them in the way of ambition. I am not adage that this is a terrible thing, nor am I adage that Portland is a terrible place to live. All I am adage is, Palahniuk either has no thought what he is talking about, or he just chose a “flavor” for the book and stuck with it, regardless of whether or not it happened to be right.
I may live in Chicago now, but I lived in Portland for fifteen years and still have family tree and friends who reside there. Having been in and out of Portland for twenty years now, I can comfortably say that this book reads like a half-baked work of fiction, filled with lousy embellishments and bone idle filler. Very disappointing.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Well, i just like chucks roommate, Small LAURIE!
But onto larger and better things. block i will finance you to live in SAN DIEGO, and find the cool things like you did with Portland. But i don’t care if you write a book, just help me go look for this crap. YOU ROCK DUDE!
but Santa weed and rum sounds like the best combo.
I reflect the tunnels under POrtland deserve more attention in the national media.
some of the fun activities in Portland: STRIP CLUBS!
i’m so rude and crass, forgive me, But seriously, Sex is okay right?
wanna know what i’m talking about? PLease JUST BUY THE BOOK! and read it. don’t just let it collect dust in that ancient milk box container storage unit called bookshelf number one.
NIGHT NIGHT!!
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
As he writes in his epilogue, “This is not Portland, Oregon.” Just scads of non-site-point deegradation written in clipped New Yorker prose. Elliptical descriptions of perversion after perversion, spilling over the pages to become one huge bore. And on top of all this, there’s no pointer to the places he touches on, so even if you wanted to go there, you’d be hardput. Self-indulgent yet simultaneously unrevealing, as uninteresting a discovery of spirit of place as one can get.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I should have been forewarned. Mr. Palahniuk is certainly upfront about what path he will take in this book. After all, the title is “Fugitives and Refugees” and I judge persons are leopard skin pasties with tassels on the take in. I still hoped, but, that I would read about how vibrant Portland’s downtown is, how Powell’s Bookstore is unique for Portland and all the world and how Portland is a mecca for artists. As a replacement for I get chapters on weird museums, weird restaurants and all the sex clubs in Portland– and more about the leader’s own life than I care to know, most of which he tells in his “postcards” between the additional chapters.
Oh, sure. It’s nice to know that there is an annual Emily Dickinson Sing-Along at Cafe Lena, for example. The bit about the Santas in the Portland SantaCon ‘96 is amusing. The chapter on Portland’s zoo I establish by far to be the most appealing, a telling commentary on my result to this book since zoos are usually the last place I visit in a new city.
This book would not make me want to visit Portland.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I live in Eugene, OR… and LOVE this book! We take “trips” to our fave town all the time and like the people and places…block does a fantastic job of describing them like a native Oregonian (even though he technically isn’t).
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5