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Title: Rolling Nowhere : Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes by Ted Conover ISBN: 0-375-72786-8 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 11 September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Cheap wine
Comment: See now Ted wrote a good book this time. He rode the rails with crack bums and people that piss their pants for a living.
Let's drink Thunderbird and eat cold beans from a can.
Then we can ride for free to Frisco. Now Ted finally got some balls and wrote a book about crazy people. Way to go Ted. Finally.
Rating: 4
Summary: An eye-opener
Comment: Although twenty years isnce it was first published, the book has a timeless aspect that is quite moving; essentially, Rolling Nowhere is an indictment of how the most wealthy, powerful and materialistic nation in the history of human civilization treats those who have fallen through the cracks. As taken in and enthralled as I was by the author's experiences, I was in the end more saddened than anything alse.
Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting, yet....
Comment: This book is part of the "Vintage Departures" series, a group of travel books from unusual angles. Some examples are a book about gamblers and the gambling world, "back country" travel in the most remote parts of the world, inexperienced mountain climbers, and near poetry. This book tries to take a different look at our own country, as as seen through the eyes of a constant traveler, the railroad tramp.
While it does indeed describe some of America, the author quickly loses focus on the aspect of seeing American through the eyes of the hobo to looking at hobo society itself. For the most part, he does this latter quite well, except where he finally intrudes and makes a bald statement of his opinion, and what he deems to be the reader's opinion, in the last page.
Conover is refreshingly naive, in some ways, and not afraid to place his naiveté in what could be considered a work of autobiography. While I doubt someone could use this book as a manual for catching a ride on a rail, it does allow for enough detail to catch some understanding of the complexity and difficulties accompanied thereto. As a travel book, it's interesting and worth the time.
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Title: Coyotes: A Journey Through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens by Ted Conover ISBN: 0394755189 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 August, 1987 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Newjack : Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover ISBN: 0375726624 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Hobo by Eddy Joe Cotton ISBN: 1400048095 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Whiteout : Lost in Aspen by Ted Conover ISBN: 067974178X Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 11 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression by Errol Lincoln Uys ISBN: 0415945755 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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