false \ 63832 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619309m/63832.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619309m/63832.jpg 63832 24 1383812 1982 Blue Highways: A Journey into America total:1576|5:527|4:602|3:330|2:92|1:25| 1576 6242 2278 264 63832 0316353299 9780316353298 1407 232 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619309m/63832.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63832.Blue_Highways_A_Journey_into_America 4 4 false Fri Jun 22 12:42:24 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 22 12:42:24 -0700 2007 blue highways seems to become more and more relevant with each passing generation. heat-moon (a professor at my college, the university of missouri, in the '80s when i was a student) traveled the country in the 1970s...more...]]> 63832 0316353299 9780316353298 1407 232 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619309m/63832.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63832.Blue_Highways_A_Journey_into_America 5 3 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1992 Wed Aug 01 16:25:52 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 03:18:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 63832 0316353299 9780316353298 1407 232 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619309m/63832.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63832.Blue_Highways_A_Journey_into_America 1 1 false Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 17 13:00:46 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 06 14:24:41 -0800 2009
I didn't mind Into the Wild, and I couldn't make it through Zen & the Art....

But when I think back, what I liked about ItW, the most, was when he was working in the fields in Idaho.

And it was written by Krakauer -not first person.

So, here's one...more...]]> 63832 0316353299 9780316353298 1407 232 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619309m/63832.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63832.Blue_Highways_A_Journey_into_America 5 1 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 19 20:02:15 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 19 20:12:55 -0800 2008
The first time I read this, it was a great road trip, full of interesting places to visit and cool people to talk to and relics of a disappearing America. Now I'm older and ...more...]]> 63832 0316353299 9780316353298 1407 232 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619309m/63832.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63832.Blue_Highways_A_Journey_into_America 3 1 false Thu Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 19 07:58:20 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 19 08:07:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 63832 0316353299 9780316353298 1407 232 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619309m/63832.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63832.Blue_Highways_A_Journey_into_America 0 0 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 12:45:14 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 12:45:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 386354 0395585686 9780395585689 51 6 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174355831m/386354.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/386354.Blue_Highways_A_Journey_into_America 5 1 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Sat Jan 10 06:21:31 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 06:22:53 -0800 2009
On the cover of my copy of Blue Highways, Robert Penn Warren is quoted as calling the book “a masterpiece.” Yes. It’s ...more...]]> 63832 0316353299 9780316353298 1407 232 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619309m/63832.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63832.Blue_Highways_A_Journey_into_America 4 0 false Fri Nov 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 22:34:24 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 27 18:05:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 63832 0316353299 9780316353298 1407 232 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619309m/63832.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63832.Blue_Highways_A_Journey_into_America 0 1 false Sun Apr 19 15:57:04 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 10:29:12 -0700 2009
The title refers to the smaller, one-lane, back-country highways ...more...]]> 63832 0316353299 9780316353298 1407 232 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619309m/63832.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63832.Blue_Highways_A_Journey_into_America 1 1 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 11:40:40 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 23:02:51 -0700 2009
I am predisposed to enjoy this kind of book. I love to travel and to take the roads less traveled. I've been to many places in America and I throughly enjoy exploring everywhere I haven't yet been. Back in High School, I would read Michael Crichton's Travels, ...more...]]> 63832 0316353299 9780316353298 1407 232 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619309m/63832.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63832.Blue_Highways_A_Journey_into_America 4 0 false Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 11 08:46:10 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 09:43:23 -0700 2009
After experiencing some personal setbacks, William Least Heat-Moon traveled in a circle through America, doing a more-than-decent job of chronicling his adventure and encounters. In the end, he admits he didn't do as...more...]]> 63832 0316353299 9780316353298 1407 232 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619309m/63832.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63832.Blue_Highways_A_Journey_into_America 5 1 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Wed Jun 27 07:41:26 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 27 07:49:23 -0700 2007 The writing is direct and beautiful, full of wond...more...]]> 386354 0395585686 9780395585689 51 6 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174355831m/386354.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/386354.Blue_Highways_A_Journey_into_America 5 0 false Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 00:29:25 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 20:22:24 -0700 2009 1 "In my own country, I had gone out, had met, had shared. I had stood as witness."
- William Least Heat-Moon

And so he did. I'm glad he did. His doing so gave me the pleasure of reading this 400-page epic journey across the United States of America. I haven't read too ma...more...]]> 63832 0316353299 9780316353298 1407 232 3.96 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170619309m/63832.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63832.Blue_Highways_A_Journey_into_America 5 3 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1982 Tue Oct 30 08:19:50 -0700 2007 Wed Mar 05 16:17:07 -0800 2008
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