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The New American Road Trip Mixtape (2013)

by Brendan Leonard(Favorite Author)

4.08 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0615826393 (ISBN13: 9780615826394)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Semi-Rad Media

review 1: An email I wrote immediately upon finishing this book: "I just finished "The New American Road Trip Mixtape" (Brendan Leonard / semi-rad.com) and am planning out how and when to quit my job and live on the road for ~ a year, mostly in the West. The main question is how much money I'll need to save up first..."Brendan's blog semi-rad.com is one of just a few blogs I subscribe to - he has a great human vision of mountain experience, and his pieces about family and friends are as powerful as his pieces about epic climbs etc (or semi-epic as the case may be).I've enjoyed hearing his stories on the blog and in the Dirtbag Diaries podcast, so it was great to tie them together with more of his backstory in this book, and then a slideshow he gave in Seattle recently on tour. This ... morebook is a collection of anecdotes, really all about the new American family. Brendan was just out of a bad breakup and travels to see friends all over the West. He writes about their relationships, families, and sees and shows a great diversity of how people are living with other people in family and community nowadays. I'm looking forward to his next book.
review 2: With its heart firmly in the right place, and inspiration drawn from America's natural and literary greats, this is a very fine foray into trying to pencil in what it all means without actually needing to find a cut-and-dry answer. Couldn't quite "love" it though. Maybe, in all honesty, it cut too close to the bone, making me too self-conscious whilst reading. But I also felt the writing was a bit sophomoric, relying on quotes of greater authors too often, spilling too many random anecdotes from too many random friends, and falling into a sloppy rhythm at times, as if written on the steering wheel of a wildly veering beat up old car.Oh, right. So it was...All in all it's a good sermon on dirtbaggery and driving anywhere to find (or lose) ourselves. less

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