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Title: Hobo : A Young Man's Thoughts on Trains and Tramping in America by Eddy Joe Cotton ISBN: 0-609-60738-3 Publisher: Harmony Books Pub. Date: 11 June, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.18 (22 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: good read
Comment: Hobo is a beautiful and simple story. I read the entire book in only a few days and found it mystifing. The characters were a rough cast but at the same time kind hearted and interesting. Eddy Joe Cotton does a good job telling the reader of his insights without being too overbearing. I would never have known this world existed, nor would I have had the feeling of being there if I wouldn't have read Hobo. It was heart warming educational trip.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the most beautiful things you will ever read
Comment: This is not, as some reviewers would have you believe, a juvenile attempt at autobiography, or a ripoff of Kerouac. Neither is it a work that is undeserving of praise, or trite. Instead, the author instills a great deal of poetry and threads it through the years of collective experience he had being homeless. The only thing I wish he had included more material on was the topic of fitting into society, of feeling like he couldn't reintegrate. He was basically on his own at 16 (not nineteen as it says above in the review). I find it both amazing and heartwarming that he finally reached a point in his life where he wanted to finally turn things around, through a literary achievement that tells a very American saga.
It's gorgeous prose, and though he skips over time a lot, the stories he tells are both beautifully told and gritty, about people forgotten, or shunned by society, sometimes victims, sometimes insane, sometimes dangerous, sometimes just throwaways. It's a fascinating look at the gypsy culture in this country as well as how people really survive that way. I really recommend it if you're looking for that sort of read. Parts of it are uncomfortable but really, I found it a profound book, with meditations on the American dream and the American reality that was very cutting and nostalgic at the same time. I wouldn't ever welcome that life, the taste of it I've seen is enough, but yeah, his book is very well written. I suppose part of me liked it so much because it didn't shy away from talking about the things that make America exactly the hazardous place it is, and why. He really exposes a great number of things that make you go "wow, I am so glad I wasn't there to see this in person". Especially given what the current administration idealizes, this book is a perfect antidote for the person willing to say America is the best country on earth. This book is a wake up call to the people who tout the "no child left behind" act, and the lack of insight that is our system, one that constantly, irrecovably overlooks.
Rating: 4
Summary: Freedom!
Comment: Young bum-in-training Eddy Joe Cotton takes us along on his journey to freedom, riding the rails, scrounging for food in trash cans, freezing in boxcars, staring out at deserts and fields of grain for days at a time, and of course meeting fellow travellers. You never know what filthy old bum you will run into at a hobo gathering or what words of wisdom you will glean in between slugs of cheap wine. Filthy dirty? Yes - but free! Going noplace? Yes - but free! Picking through half smoked cigarette butts in order to roll your own? Yes - but free! Free, free, free! Well, if that's your idea of a good life, welcome to it. This book actually was pretty entertaining and informative. It does seem like a carefree, if uncomfortable, way of living, and nothing terribly bad seemed to happen to the author. There are also plenty of women who take an interest in this sort, though none of them stick around for long, having issues of their own. Good luck, Eddy Joe Cotton, I'll be thinking of you every time I hear the train whistle in the distance at night.
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Title: Rolling Nowhere : Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes by Ted Conover ISBN: 0375727868 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 11 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: You Can't Win by Jack Black, William S. Burroughs ISBN: 1902593022 Publisher: AK Pr Distribution Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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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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Title: Done and Been: Steel Rail Chronicles of American Hobos by Gypsy Moon, Gyspy Moon, Gypsy Moon, Gypsy ISBN: 0253210356 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha (Nabat) by Ben, Dr Reitman, Bertha Thompson, Ben L. Reitman, Barry Pateman ISBN: 1902593030 Publisher: AK Pr Distribution Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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