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Guitar Highway Rose
by
Brigid Lowry
Two Aussie teens hitchhike across Australia in this runaway bestseller about the teenage quest for freedom Fifteen-year-old Rosie Moon is ready for adventure. Popular and smart, Rosie is usually the good girl. But, on the first day of tenth grade, Rosie is immediately attracted to Asher, the myster-ious new boy with dreadlocks. When the two pair up for a poetry assignment,...more
204 pages
Published
2005
by Allen & Unwin ;Frances Lincoln [distributor]
(first published November 28th 2003)
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I WISH this were my favorite quote from the book:
Some ideas are not born of logic and good sense. They are made of clouds and cobwebs. They sprout from nowhere and feed on excitement, sprinkled with adventure-juice and the sweet flavour of the forbidden. The psyche moves from the realms of the ordinary and takes a delicate step towards the territories of the unknown. We know that we shouldn't and that is exactly what we do.
However. Unfortunately.
It is this:
Sometimes you think you know where yo...more
Some ideas are not born of logic and good sense. They are made of clouds and cobwebs. They sprout from nowhere and feed on excitement, sprinkled with adventure-juice and the sweet flavour of the forbidden. The psyche moves from the realms of the ordinary and takes a delicate step towards the territories of the unknown. We know that we shouldn't and that is exactly what we do.
However. Unfortunately.
It is this:
Sometimes you think you know where yo...more
Sep 06, 2011
Arlene
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommended to Arlene by:
Street Corner Bookers - Nomes
Book quote: Some ideas are not born of logic and good sense. They are made of clouds and cobwebs. They sprout from nowhere and feed on excitement, sprinkled with adventure-juice and the sweet flavor of the forbidden. The psyche moves from the realms of the ordinary and takes a delicate step towards the territory of the unknown. We know that we shouldn’t and that is exactly why we do.
Wow! How beautiful is that?
Guitar Highway Rose is filled with amazing thoughtful passages, enlightening Aussie li...more
Wow! How beautiful is that?
Guitar Highway Rose is filled with amazing thoughtful passages, enlightening Aussie li...more
The recent reviews I've read on this have been mediocre at best but I really didn't like it. The language is childish and the characters are boring. In the very first chapter there are sentences that repeatedly use "and" or are short and choppy, it reads like a young kid's book!
Favourite Quote;
“Sometimes you think you know where you are headed. You
think you know what each day will bring. You think there will be
a breath to follow this breath. It has always been that way
before. You think that lunch will follow breakfast and sometime
later dinner will naturally appear. You think that you know that the
sky is blue and that trees are green, that cats are furry and that
life will go on quite smoothly for ever like an infinite ripple of
turquoise ribbon. But sometimes you are...more
“Sometimes you think you know where you are headed. You
think you know what each day will bring. You think there will be
a breath to follow this breath. It has always been that way
before. You think that lunch will follow breakfast and sometime
later dinner will naturally appear. You think that you know that the
sky is blue and that trees are green, that cats are furry and that
life will go on quite smoothly for ever like an infinite ripple of
turquoise ribbon. But sometimes you are...more
The odds seemed stacked against me liking this book - the 90s is my least favourite era, I don't think anyone other than Joyce and Faulkner should attempt stream-of-consciousness narrative and I dislike hippies (sorry no offence to anyone). So an experimental book written in 1997 about two teens with the gypsy blues? I would say no thanks! But I'm glad I gave this novel a go - this novel charmed me over and I had to agree at the end that yes this is a gorgeous book!
Upon starting this, I was ins...more
Upon starting this, I was ins...more
3.7 stars (yes it's very close to 4)
When I was around 15, I was obsessed with the TV series My So-Called Life. And I can see how teenagers in Aus might have been in love with this book as I see similarities. The book also captures adolescence psych well: their burning desire for independence, their frustration with the parents as well as love and need for them, and their struggle and confusion with both internal and external variables which they cannot control (their hormones, family breakup, re...more
When I was around 15, I was obsessed with the TV series My So-Called Life. And I can see how teenagers in Aus might have been in love with this book as I see similarities. The book also captures adolescence psych well: their burning desire for independence, their frustration with the parents as well as love and need for them, and their struggle and confusion with both internal and external variables which they cannot control (their hormones, family breakup, re...more
I inhaled this book, it's so gorgeously told, so vibrant, and sensory. I could see the waves on the beach, smell the salt air, taste the pasta and porridge, and feel Rosie's intense longing for something to happen. It made me want to pack everything up in a blue VW van and head for Australia, to road trip up and down the coast.
Guitar Highway Rose is a coming of age story and it really captures how it feels to be a teen. To have that longing for change and control over your life.
I loved Rosie and...more
Guitar Highway Rose is a coming of age story and it really captures how it feels to be a teen. To have that longing for change and control over your life.
I loved Rosie and...more
I absolutely love this book.
I think I first read it in 2007/08 (Around the time I first read Looking For Alaska and many other books that stuck with me), and I've just re-read it at least twice a year since.
I need to get a copy of my own, it amuses the librarian at my school everytime she sees I've picked it up again.
I don't know what to say. I love where it's set, I love Asher and Rose and Rose's best friend's relationship with her Mum, similar to my friend's.
Brigid's book Tomorrow All Wi...more
I think I first read it in 2007/08 (Around the time I first read Looking For Alaska and many other books that stuck with me), and I've just re-read it at least twice a year since.
I need to get a copy of my own, it amuses the librarian at my school everytime she sees I've picked it up again.
I don't know what to say. I love where it's set, I love Asher and Rose and Rose's best friend's relationship with her Mum, similar to my friend's.
Brigid's book Tomorrow All Wi...more
Guitar Highway Rose written by Brigid Lowry, is part road story, part love story of two teenagers trying to find an adventure. One is Rosie Moon, who is bored with her life in Perth. Her parents don't seem to understand her and she hungers for something more. The other is Asher Fielding and he is new in town, and tired from his parents recent divorce and misses home more everyday. When the two cross paths, they find the feeling of wanting to get out is mutual and they decide to run away togeth...more
This is one of my favorite books ever! I love the author's unconventional writing/formatting style. It has a very sweet story and quirky, fun, interesting, lovable characters. :D
I'm sorry, but all the run-on sentence/paragraphs without any commas or anything even drove me nutty! This book totally brought me back to 1997 considering all the music and fashion mentioned (in which I was a teenager at that time as well). It was nice that they gave you so many perspectives in this book. Sadly though, I was bored out of my mind. I was glad this was such a fast and short read. I couldn't even attach myself to the characters. I was extremely surprised to find that this book did...more
I was really excited when I stumbled upon this book at the used book store. The name of the book stuck with me and when I saw it, I snatched it right up. I'd been wanting to try a book written from an Australian author for a while now.
The format was very different from anything I've ever read and I wasn't sure I'd be able to relate enough to the characters as the story is written in small snippets. But it ended up being pretty easy to follow and a quick read.
I adored the two main characters, Ro...more
The format was very different from anything I've ever read and I wasn't sure I'd be able to relate enough to the characters as the story is written in small snippets. But it ended up being pretty easy to follow and a quick read.
I adored the two main characters, Ro...more
Really a nice story by Ms Lowry, not much about guitars and roses but about two teens who set of too discover the world on their own terms and run amok of reality. Rosie Moon is about as real as one can get, especially in her reactions to family traumas and even more so when they involve her. The ending set me off though; but upon looking back I can accept that it may have been the only way to make all right-- and so it will be. Here is a decent teen adventure novel that packs a respectable mora...more
guitar highway rose (allen&unwin), by brigid lowry, was published in 1997.
it is the story of rosie: who lives in perth and is hanging around being fifteen, arguing with her mother, wishing she was older, waiting for her life to begin. it's also the story of asher: a dreadlocked, reluctant byron bay evacuee, come to perth because his parents have separated. theirs is a sweet and quirky friendship and then developing into, possibly, something more. they both love music and secondhand clothes,...more
it is the story of rosie: who lives in perth and is hanging around being fifteen, arguing with her mother, wishing she was older, waiting for her life to begin. it's also the story of asher: a dreadlocked, reluctant byron bay evacuee, come to perth because his parents have separated. theirs is a sweet and quirky friendship and then developing into, possibly, something more. they both love music and secondhand clothes,...more
Rose is waiting for life to happen; to break free from her mum’s suffocating way of caring. She wanted her dad to do something about his suffering marriage to her mum.
Asher wanted nothing to do with Perth. He’d rather be back to his old hunting ground where everything was normal and familiar.
This is a story of two kids who found themselves on the run from a petty crime Asher was accused of. But mostly, they wanted freedom. Along their adventure, while their parents were going insane with worry...more
Asher wanted nothing to do with Perth. He’d rather be back to his old hunting ground where everything was normal and familiar.
This is a story of two kids who found themselves on the run from a petty crime Asher was accused of. But mostly, they wanted freedom. Along their adventure, while their parents were going insane with worry...more
Favourite Quote: Some ideas are not born of logic and good sense. They are made of clouds and cobwebs. They sprout from nowhere and feed on excitement, sprinkled with adventure juice and the sweet flavor of the forbidden. The psyche moves from the realms of the ordinary and takes a delicate step towards the unknown. We know we shouldn't and that is exactly why we do.
Guitar Rose Highway is a fun read. It is quirky, charming and vibrant story that captures the joy and angst of being a teen.
Lowry'...more
Guitar Rose Highway is a fun read. It is quirky, charming and vibrant story that captures the joy and angst of being a teen.
Lowry'...more
Guitar Highway Rose by Brigid Lowry is one of my most favourite nostalgia books <3
it came out when I was 17 and in my final year of high school.
i loved it.
my mates loved it.
i carried it around with me.
i wanted to be Rosie. i crushed on Asher.
i doodled all the little icons out of it into my journal.
i answered some of the profile-y parts in my journal, too :)
it's such a perfect teenagery book.
it's about crushes and first love. running away. a road trip. a kombi van. hippies. it sweet and quir...more
it came out when I was 17 and in my final year of high school.
i loved it.
my mates loved it.
i carried it around with me.
i wanted to be Rosie. i crushed on Asher.
i doodled all the little icons out of it into my journal.
i answered some of the profile-y parts in my journal, too :)
it's such a perfect teenagery book.
it's about crushes and first love. running away. a road trip. a kombi van. hippies. it sweet and quir...more
Brigid Lowry brings us Guitar Highway Rose a novel told in everything from prose to poetry to stream of consciousness writing and in multiple viewpoints. We primarily hear from Rosie and Asher, the two teens the story revolves around, but their parents and friends and even the people they meet also get their say.
The story flows surprisingly well for something that jumps around so often from character to character, from style to style. Once you are caught up in it, the story weaves a web around...more
The story flows surprisingly well for something that jumps around so often from character to character, from style to style. Once you are caught up in it, the story weaves a web around...more
Jul 19, 2007
Lacey Louwagie
rated it
3 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
people who like vignettes
Shelves:
youngadult
This book is about two teenagers -- Rosie and Asher -- who decide to run away together, Asher because he's been falsely accused of theft at school, and Rosie because she's tired of being "good." Brigid tells the story in little snapshots that take you inside the minds of everyone in the book -- Rosie and Asher, the people they meet while they're hitchhiking, their teachers, their parents, their siblings, etc. While I could appreciate the experimental story-telling and the little details that mad...more
Apr 17, 2013
Ðɑηηɑ
rated it
1 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Not many people
This is not a nice book, the story is superficial, but the most irritating thing about it, is that it loses connection between the story and the way it's written.
Actually, I like books which talks about young teen in some exotic place (Australia) who spend a summer Loving a magnificent awesome new guy, you know, stupid girls book... But this book just wasn't exciting nor funny, in the most part.
Agreed, some situations were really cool and made me curious ( for example, the time Rose went to a pa...more
Actually, I like books which talks about young teen in some exotic place (Australia) who spend a summer Loving a magnificent awesome new guy, you know, stupid girls book... But this book just wasn't exciting nor funny, in the most part.
Agreed, some situations were really cool and made me curious ( for example, the time Rose went to a pa...more
This was the book that, in my first year of high school, introduced me to a more "experimental" form of writing. It was so very different from the classics I was used to reading (Little House on the Prairie, Anne of Green Gables, Silver Brumby and the ilk...), and 'spoke' to me in a way hadn't experienced before.
Of course many, many books have followed in its footsteps since then, but I'll always remember this book as the one which broadened my idea of what a book could be.
Of course many, many books have followed in its footsteps since then, but I'll always remember this book as the one which broadened my idea of what a book could be.
Feb 09, 2011
♥MJ_Lover♥A7X_Lover♥ C.A.Anna♥Jimmy FoREVer
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
This was a great story. We had to read it for English and for English i wasn't expecting a book like this. This was a really good stroy. I loved how she changed from peoples POV and how there was even 3rd person and random bits in between. I Loved how we got intot he mind of the two main charactes Asher aan Rosie. Glad i read it for sure! :D
5/5 for me :D
MJ_Lover xoxoxox
5/5 for me :D
MJ_Lover xoxoxox
Sep 16, 2012
Ashley
marked it as abandoned
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review of another edition
Shelves:
2012-september,
library
This book seemed to promise me everything I love in YA: road trips, music, and romance. I couldn't even get 10 pages in, the writing style irritated me (especially Asher's parts, written all in lowercase and with no punctuation.) I'm disappointed because I had high hopes for this book, but I'm sending it straight back to the library.
Jan 05, 2012
Tammy
rated it
2 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
young-adult,
mini-reviews
Beautiful writing which was unfortunately marred by the actual structure of the book. The voice of the male character's thoughts was, for me, very disjointed and while I get that this may have been a deliberate ploy to show the character's struggle and confusion to settle in, it ultimately bothered me to the point of distraction. That being said, I'd definitely still read more of Brigid Lowry's work.
I was a little disappointed of this book, the stream of consensus confused me while i was reading through the book. I wasn't very intrigued in this novel. It had a great story line, but the stream of conciseness used in the novel confused me as well as the book was not formated in chapters. Over than that is was a great story.
i loved the unique format with different sections in different POV's instead of chapters. I liked the characters, and identified with them in their rebellion from my teen years. I enjoyed the road trip and growing sweet and innocent relationship. I didn't care much for the ending, but the majority of the book was fun to read.
At the time in my youth i loved this book so I'll give it four stars as it really made my English lessons a lot more fun ( this was one we read and reviewed in class) I don't know how I'd feel about it now but then again it isn't really written for adults .. So teen ages do read because you will enjoy !
One of my all time favourite books, having read this when I was 16, living in Australia, I could relate to Rosie and loved reading about all the familiar places of my childhood. It is a quintessentially Australian young adult novel but I think it can be loved by both teenagers and adults alike!
I really loved to read this book. I read it in like two days without really stopping and it's amazing. The music that was mentioned is great and it made the book even more real. The hippie in me felt with susie and there were such great paragraphs that made me feel the ocean and wind.
Sometimes you think you know where you are headed. You think you know what each day will bring. You think there will be a breath to follow this breath. It has always been that way before.Guitar Highway Rose is truly a book for teenagers. It's about crushes. It's about family you love but sometimes can't stand. It's about rebelling against your parents. It's about best friends who always have your back. It's about wanting to be somewhere else, or someone else.
I loved that I could easily relate...more
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Brigid Lowry was born in New Zealand into a rather strange but very creative family. Here she learned a love of books, too many swear words and how to cook a decent omelette. Brigid's early, rather awful poetry was made into a small book by her father, a printer and typographer, and sold to kindly relatives for two and sixpence a copy. Thus her writing career was launched, but it took about twenty...more
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“I'm hungry for a juicy life. I lean out my window at night and I can taste it out there, just waiting for me.”
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“Some ideas are not born of logic and good sense. They are made of clouds and cobwebs. They sprout from nowhere and feed on excitement, sprinkled with adventure juice and the sweet flavor of the forbidden. The psyche moves from the realms of the ordinary and takes a delicate step towards the unknown. We know we shouldn't and that is exactly why we do.”
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i am not sure how i would feel about it coming to it now for the first time. but as a teenager, i loved all the littl...more
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