The New American Road Trip Mixtape Author: Brendan Leonard | Language: English | ISBN:
B00G2KF9Y4 | Format: PDF
The New American Road Trip Mixtape Description
When your life plan explodes, you ask yourself the big questions: What do I really need in life? How can I make my life a work of art? Should I buy a house? Have kids? What is a life?
Following in Kerouac and Steinbeck's tire tracks, a 32-year-old, post-breakup Brendan Leonard hits the road in search of healing and a new, post-economic-downturn American Dream. Sleeping in the back of a beat-up station wagon, he seeks answers—and hopefully, the occasional shower—in the postcard-worthy places of the American West.
Part ballad to the romance of the road and part heart-searching treatise on the American Dream, The New American Road Trip Mixtape is Leonard's raw, often hilarious, barstool storytelling at its best.
- File Size: 602 KB
- Print Length: 239 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0615826393
- Publisher: Semi-Rad Media, LLC (December 11, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00G2KF9Y4
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #103,764 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
This book is just like a great road trip story you hear sitting on a barstool, in a coffee shop, or around a campfire with a buddy who just got back from living the dream. The stories are real, raw, and sometimes painful. You'll laugh your ass off one minute, and want to give you buddy a hug the next. You'll wonder why the hell he stayed on the road so long, and then start thinking about how long you can take off work to go on your own Grand Tour. Mostly though, you won't want the stories to end -- which is why I read the whole damn thing the same night I got this.
By Ben Gipson
I've sat on this review a few weeks now wanting to have liked this book as much as others but just can't. Perhaps I'm just in a different life stage, 40's with family and generally content, but it seemed like chapter after chapter rehashed the same "woe is me" about the girl who dumped him. It almost felt like there was a whole bunch of dialogue written about getting dumped, a whole dialogue of adventure stuff, and the author was simply copy and pasting some from each into each chapter to mix the two.
After the first few chapters of hashing and rehashing about this girl I started skipping those sections of the forthcoming chapters because they didn't contribute to the adventure, climbing, traveling around part of the story very much at all.
I wish Brendan well and enjoy his musings about climbing, where he's been, and general outlook on being on the road, but the telling and retelling about getting let go by a girl got too much in the way after the first few chapters.
By Christopher Freeman
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