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Title: Passing Gas: And Other Towns on the American Highway by Gary Gladstone ISBN: 1-58008-456-7 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.42 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: SERIOUS Fun, Don't Pass This Up!
Comment: I heard Gary Gladstone talk about this project on NPR's Weekend Edition and started laughing immediately. When I ordered the book and read the stories and laughed at the images, I wasn't disappointed. (I'm still laughing.)
This is one funny look at America and Americans. Can you believe there are real estate agents trying to sell property in Stinking Point? There is a Police Officer with a radar gun pointed at you in Good Grief, Idaho? Gladstone visited about 60 hysterically named towns and made a portrait of a citizen who lives there. He shows these real people in really funny named towns as both warm and funny.
Gladstone's America smiles at itself in the pictures and in the stories where he tells about how these silly names were picked for the towns.
It's a great read!
---Wallace Moon
Rating: 5
Summary: You'll Laugh Until It Hurts
Comment: I have this book on my family room coffee table and even though I've read it cover to cover at least twice now, I still get a big smile every time I see it there. Why, well how about the concept of God having a bar code check out lane on Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania? I've been down that road at night and after reading Gladstone's description of the PA Dept of Transportation's paint test area, I laughed until it hurt. It's great photography with writing that leaves you wanting to read and see more of the same.
Rating: 1
Summary: Trying before buying is a good idea
Comment: I heard a radio article about this and it sounded like the perfect Father's Day present. I found only favorable reviews here, so I ordered it. If, instead, I had flipped through it at a bricks and mortar store, I would not have purchased it. There are plenty of towns with funny names. In some cases, the author was unable to find a good explanation for the name. I can see how that would be difficult since he was usually in each town for only a short time. However, in places he found nothing memorable to photograph, he should have struck those towns from the list. Many of the towns were just names on a map, so there was no building or sign to photograph. In these cases the author found local residents willing to stand in front of nothing and provide exaggerated grins, or policemen willing to pose beside their cars at roadside. The author ruined an already mediocre project by disrespecting the local residents. The condescending remarks, couched in attempted humor in the final pages, are unforgiveable.
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Title: Odd Jobs: Portraits of Unusual Occupations by Nancy Rica Schiff ISBN: 1580084575 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Nice Job: The Guide to Cool, Odd, Risky, and Gruesome Ways to Make a Living (Lookout Media Series) by Jamie Rosen, Nicholas Corman, Chuck Kapelke, Jake Brooks, Michelle Sullivan ISBN: 1580080332 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: How to Mow the Lawn: The Lost Art of Being a Man by Sam Martin ISBN: 0525947310 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: 24 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Our Smallest Towns: Big Falls, Blue Eye, Bonanza, & Beyond by Dennis Kitchen ISBN: 0811809021 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Get Stoned and Read This Book by Gordon G. Gourd ISBN: 096735370X Publisher: Gordon G. Gourd, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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