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04-27-2013, 11:29 AM
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Re: Blue Highways
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04-27-2013, 02:01 PM
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Blue Highways
Cool! Thanks for sharing.
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04-27-2013, 05:42 PM
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Re: Blue Highways
X 2 !
I am 1/2 way through the book.
Angel
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07-29-2013, 12:36 PM
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Re: Blue Highways
Well, I have added several books to my reading list now. Amazon here I come!
While I'm at it I'll make a suggestion too. "In Search of Captain Zero" by Allen Weisbecker. Maybe exaggerated, certainly written by a lunatic. It sure is a page turner. Not just for surfers, you will be itching to head south of the border. I'm sure some of you have read it.
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07-29-2013, 07:06 PM
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Re: Blue Highways
Please tell me the significance to the "Ghost Dancing" van.As I recall; the Ghost dance was a Native American ceremony started by chief Techumseh's shaman brother to protect warriors before battle against the U.S. Army and resurrected by the Sioux before the battles against the U.S. cavalry.Edited after I actually read the whole post.I'm such a Doofus so uhhhh, Never mind.
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07-29-2013, 08:10 PM
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Re: Blue Highways
Way cool to see the actual van! I had no idea it was preserved like that.
And did you notice? It has POP-OUT REAR WINDOWS!!! Ooooh.
Think I'm going to go back and re-read Blue Highways. Been a decade or so since I read it last.
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09-15-2013, 01:34 PM
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Re: Blue Highways
As enchanting as Blue Highways is, I enjoyed Jupiter's Travels even more. He is traveling the world on a motorcycle, but the trip seems more of a 4x4 SMB style trip than staying on paved roads. Maybe part of it is the writer is not an English professor, so the prose is less wordy. But, the adventure is more adventurous.
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09-19-2013, 02:11 PM
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Re: Blue Highways
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Originally Posted by Ford_6L_E350
As enchanting as Blue Highways is, I enjoyed Jupiter's Travels even more. He is traveling the world on a motorcycle, but the trip seems more of a 4x4 SMB style trip than staying on paved roads. Maybe part of it is the writer is not an English professor, so the prose is less wordy. But, the adventure is more adventurous.
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Have to agree with you, Mike, even though I spoke highly of the author earlier in this thread and like his second book, PrairyErth. It's not his English degree so much as his formulaic approach: drive along focusing on incomprehensible route numbers that require a map if you want to keep up; meet someone who is officially interesting; have a meaningful encounter; move on. I enjoyed the vignettes but couldn't pull it all together. Maybe it needed more if his personal angst to give it more appeal.
Set it down without finishing. I'll try again soon.
Don
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09-19-2013, 02:37 PM
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Re: Blue Highways
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Originally Posted by rionapo
Have to agree with you, Mike, even though I spoke highly of the author earlier in this thread and like his second book, PrairyErth.
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PrairyErth is the one I found mind-numbing. Got about 2/3 through, and it still sits on my bookshelf, unfinished, after a decade.
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09-19-2013, 10:38 PM
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Re: Blue Highways
Just ordered a copy off eBay. Pretty stoked. Coming from a guy that likes alot of pictures when he reads.
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