This unflinching, quirky novel follows a flawed yet lovable everyman as he searches for Home. We never learn his name. Nor do we learn her name—the...
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Dec 21, 2011
Seth
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When I was a wee fellow, I could transform tree branches into ray guns, bed sheets into fully functional flight mechanisms, and crawdads into intergalactic sea creatures. My dirt-scrapingly dull pocket knife could save the world, and on particularly clear nights I could ting a pebble off of the moon with my slingshot. I was a kid: oblivious, blissful, and overflowing with wonder.
Reminiscing is a means by which we explore our various eras, phases, mistakes, and elations in order to ev More...
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Aug 18, 2011
Matt
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“That’s when they build new snowmen to destroy. Because they love them. Because the the snowmen are there.”
So Mel Bosworth writes in his debut novel Freight. In many ways Freight runs past the general idea of what a novel is and not only breaks it down to it’s core (who the character is) but plays as a middle child does with ants and a magnifying glass creating wonder through destruction.
There is no point where the character’s name is known, and I doubt knowing this carri More...
So Mel Bosworth writes in his debut novel Freight. In many ways Freight runs past the general idea of what a novel is and not only breaks it down to it’s core (who the character is) but plays as a middle child does with ants and a magnifying glass creating wonder through destruction.
There is no point where the character’s name is known, and I doubt knowing this carri More...
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Jul 08, 2011
Liana
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LOVED it. Will be re-reading this in the near future!
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Jul 08, 2011
Alex
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Freight I Found:
If you hang around for long enough and don't destroy yourself proper, you get lucky and come across those good bits that Hansel and Gretel left behind in that forest. Yesterday on my run through the woods I found a $20 bill. It was just sprawled there in the soil, wet and limp for my taking. The day before that I found Mel Bosworth's first full novel "Freight" at my door. It was also just sprawled there but on my porch, crisp and clean, for my taking. And so I did More...
If you hang around for long enough and don't destroy yourself proper, you get lucky and come across those good bits that Hansel and Gretel left behind in that forest. Yesterday on my run through the woods I found a $20 bill. It was just sprawled there in the soil, wet and limp for my taking. The day before that I found Mel Bosworth's first full novel "Freight" at my door. It was also just sprawled there but on my porch, crisp and clean, for my taking. And so I did More...
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Sep 07, 2011
Jessie
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I love to take notes when I read; although I found myself so wrapped up in Mel Bosworth's first novel "Freight" that I only have a handful of notes. You know, however, that you truly enjoyed a book when one of your first notes is: devestatingly beautiful.
The narrator of "Freight" has had a lot to carry. He is, perhaps, as worn as the cover so artfully looks, but that just means he is broken in. As I have been teaching my composition students this week: this narrat More...
The narrator of "Freight" has had a lot to carry. He is, perhaps, as worn as the cover so artfully looks, but that just means he is broken in. As I have been teaching my composition students this week: this narrat More...
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Aug 31, 2011
Ben
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Mel Bosworth is love. Mel Bosworth is also about movement.
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Aug 21, 2011
xTx
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I loved Freight. I ate it up. Fast. I wanted to. It was easy. Such a tenderness. Such a way of looking at life in terms of carrying. Of putting down. Of throwing up. Boxcars and boxcars of everything we experience in this life trailing behind us like the heaviest of ants. Invisible, but so very there.
Freight helped me understand that I am not by myself in the carrying. In the putting down of things not always good for me, but yet, still choosing to put them down. Freight m More...
Freight helped me understand that I am not by myself in the carrying. In the putting down of things not always good for me, but yet, still choosing to put them down. Freight m More...
Jan 22, 2012
Samuel
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"Hmmmmm..." is what I was thinking the entire time I was reading the book, and what I was thinking when I finished as well. I couldn't decide between 2 stars or 3 stars when rating this book but I decided there are enough moments of brilliance to push it up to 3 stars.
Aug 31, 2011
Hosho
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Bosworth's FREIGHT is the kind of book we might've seen from Brautigan had he written a choose-your-own-adventure book and, of course, stayed sober. It's got all the inventiveness and charm of a Brautigan, but the center of it never comes apart. It's an insightful rumination on the things we carry, and how those things impact our lives. Mistakes, regrets, fears, sorrows -- we carry them all, just as we carry our victories and joys. Bosworth's unnamed narrator gives us an inner landscape full of
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Mar 23, 2011
Mel
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I'm very proud of this book, and when it's finally wrapped and ready to ship later this year, I hope you'll invite a copy to your doorstep.
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Jan 13, 2012
Timothy
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Creative and original. Read this one outside the box!
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Oct 28, 2011
Christopher
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This book took me a little longer than most probably take to get through it. I promise this is in no way a reflection of the book. It's just, at the time I was reading it, I was carrying a lot, it was hard for me to carry, and I put down as much as I could as often as I could, and unfortunately, it was often this book, I swallowed down its pages because I was hungry like someone who hates food is so hungry. This book, in the end, gave me back my appetite. I still need to review this on Vouched,
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Jun 28, 2011
J.S.
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It was sheer joy to edit and publish this book!
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Nov 28, 2011
Brooke
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At first I loved this book - LOVED this book - I couldn't get enough. Then it just kept going and going and I realized that the book was a never ending Bing.com commercial. The section would start with one story and spin off into non-related to semi-related tangents that were only connected to the original story line by a single word.
Some parts I loved but in the end I finished the book and said "what the hell?"
Some parts I loved but in the end I finished the book and said "what the hell?"
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Jul 15, 2011
Andy
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Sorry to rate this lower than anyone else here so far. I think maybe Mel is too sweet and kindhearted a guy to write the kind of edgy prose laced with cynicism or stinging satire that I tend to prefer. For what it is though, the heartfelt journey toward emotional maturity of a basically very decent if troubled Everyman, it's very well done. Nice work Mel!
Dec 31, 2011
Dave
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Well written, but I'm more of a less serious- life isn't sort of funny, it's really really funny- kind a guy.
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