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Lädt ... Highway (2011. Auflage)von Donald O'Donovan
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. I had a hard time getting through this offering by O'Donovan. Not much of a plot, reads more like a travel log. That said, if I were a male, and/or an over the road trucker I may have found it more interesting. ( )Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. Over het algemeen is het geen goed teken als ik over een boek dat slechts 170 pagina’s telt twee weken doe, zeker als ik in de periode ook nog vakantie heb. Of ik heb weinig tijd om te lezen, of het boek bevalt niet. Lees verder op deze pagina van mijn boekenblog. Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. I had to force myself to read it. The descriptions of travels doing the job of trucking became tedious; as though someone had just cut and pasted the route driven. I kept looking for a reason why the writer wrote this book, and some kind of thread to tie it together, and I couldn't find one. The people may have been real people, but most of them were tragic or boring. When the drivers overspent their money, what happened didn't make sense. They got away with it. I didn't understand the trek into the jungle, and the point of the tragedy there. The protagonist survived everything, but I'm left as a reader with disappointment in everything. Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. I found that this book veered around a little bit too much to really keep my attention. While the epistolary novel has always been a great draw to me, I think that there does need to be a bit more of an overt plot to keep it tied together. A series of vignettes about what is happening to someone doesn't feel like the best way to capture the reader. While the writing style suited me - nothing very jarring, and it flowed relatively smoothly, with some good word choices - nothing really swept me away.Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. I did find this book a little disjointed and a bit much to wade through at first, but about halfway it got rolling and I finished it quickly. Follow Mulvaney as he long-haul trucks around North America, and the characters he meets. What I found interesting, and maybe a little disconcerting, was that the author had driven big rigs for a living, and many of the people people he wrote about were probably based on actual individuals he'd met. Shades of "On the Road" with Charles Kuralt with a darker side to it. Overall I liked the book and would read more of this author. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Highway is author Donald O'Donovan's third novel in which we find his quintessential hero, Jerzy Mulvaney, portrayed in early life as an over-the-road truck driver-a bedbug hauler, as the industry labels those who move furniture rather than commercial goods. But Mulvaney is anything but a typical road warrior; he is an aspiring author consorting with the underbelly of American society, a bohemian artist in search of stimulating experiences and colorful characters.Typical of O'Donovan's novels, not only the characters are colorful, but the situations in which they find themselves are equally vibrant. And then there is Jerzy Mulvaney himself, rough on the outside but thoughtful and sensitive on the inside. As he navigates his course from coast to coast over eighteen wheels, he is introspective and provocative. The miles grind away underneath the rubber, but the real story is inside Jerzy's mind as he searches for balance and expression.Highway is the road trip you always imagined but never took; mile after mile is marked with candid observations, outlandish circumstances and insights that define the American experience. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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