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Gail S wrote this review Thursday, April 18, 2013. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Perhaps a thousand North American travelogues published before and maybe 500 since the 1982 release of Blue Highways - a peer with the very best. The author travels by van on secondary roads in an 11,000 mile circle around the 48 lower States, capturing in wonderful storytelling prose - richly researched - about the people laying claim to backroad towns of everyday Americana unseen and for the most part untold. These are the places and the people that will someday (again) save America.”
Jjerden wrote this review Monday, April 8, 2013. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“I have read this book twice and I really enjoyed it. I read it once in the 80s and again just recently. William Least Heat-Moon has a wonderful way of describing situations and events.”
Henry B. Edwards wrote this review Tuesday, March 19, 2013. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Least Heat Moon (William Trogdon) took off in a converted truck to escape a crumbling marriage and dismissal from a job, seeking the kind of dislocation and new recognition possible on the American equivalent of a Walk-about. He chose to stay off the main highways as much as possible and drove the so-called Blue Highways, the state roads and secondary arteries that are indicated in blue in most roadmaps. He circumnavigated the country, searching---and finding---and chronicling. The result is this marvelous series of literary photographs of what America looked like in the late Seventies---grounded in history, in geography, in tradition---all seen through the eyes of a man wanting to see the worth in the coming changes, his own and the country's. Least Heat Moon possesses the narrative skills of a master novelist and the journey is rich as a consequence of the evocations of people and place. (As a side note, he's not a bad portrait photographer, either, and the text is interspersed with vivid images.) This was his first such examination of landscape, lore, and life. He seems only to have gotten better.”
Mark W. Tiedemann wrote this review Friday, November 23, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“The 30th anniversary of the publication of this book is near and I finally read it. Next I will read Blue Highways Revisited. As his marriage and job both came to an end, the author set out on a journey across the U.S., following the backroads, the highways marked in blue on his road maps. He shunned tourist attractions, seeking out everyday people in small town America, often quirkily-named small town America. In this book, he shares with us the people, the sights and the insights he found along the way.
kickinma wrote this review Wednesday, September 12, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
There's a town called Ida on page 25.
Librarians are complimented on page 368.”“l”
Gian wrote this review Wednesday, August 1, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Really enjoyed this account of one man's road trip around America in the late 1970's. Makes me want to head out on the road…”
Clay T wrote this review Tuesday, May 1, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No1 of 1 members found this review helpful“Enjoying going on this journey with him. I would love to do this someday.”
Christine Jensen wrote this review Monday, April 2, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No1 of 1 members found this review helpful“To me this beats Kerouac all hollow. It has the interest, the adventure, and the neat people without all the disfunctional nonsense. I really enjoyed it.”
Linda S wrote this review Thursday, March 1, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
