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Miles to Go (The Walk #2)
Alan Christoffersen, a once-successful advertising executive, wakes one morning to find himself injured, alone, and confined to a hospital bed in Spokane, Washington. Sixteen days earlier, reeling from the sudden loss of his wife, his home, and his business, Alan left everything he knew behind and set off on an extraordinary cross-country journey. Carrying only a backpack,...more
Hardcover, 320 pages
Published
April 5th 2011
by Simon & Schuster
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A beautiful, well-written second book in The Walk series, this book is rich in life lessons and character development, two things I love in a novel. Evans’ chapters are short and impacting – it makes you feel like you are zipping through the book (I read it in two days). I like the title and how it is taken from “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost (shown below) – I’ve always loved this poem.
There are really three stories going on here – Alan Christoffersen’s, a woman he...more
A beautiful, well-written second book in The Walk series, this book is rich in life lessons and character development, two things I love in a novel. Evans’ chapters are short and impacting – it makes you feel like you are zipping through the book (I read it in two days). I like the title and how it is taken from “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost (shown below) – I’ve always loved this poem.
There are really three stories going on here – Alan Christoffersen’s, a woman he...more
I'm not quite sure why I keep reading books by RPE... I guess I keep hoping that I'll really like one eventually.
Things I liked:
1) I love the character of Falene, a beautiful woman who is not swayed by the gawking men and does things because it's the right thing to do.
2) Two new characters, Angel and Kailamai. Very distinct personalities, well written so that I could picture them. Angel seemed a bit bi-polar for a while, but then things were explained.
3) Some great phrases that are profound, mo...more
Things I liked:
1) I love the character of Falene, a beautiful woman who is not swayed by the gawking men and does things because it's the right thing to do.
2) Two new characters, Angel and Kailamai. Very distinct personalities, well written so that I could picture them. Angel seemed a bit bi-polar for a while, but then things were explained.
3) Some great phrases that are profound, mo...more
Ok ... this is God talking for sure! After finishing the first book, I wanted to read the 2nd. I was in WalMart, heading from the groceries to the books, when I prayed: "God, I know You have more important things to think about than whether the store has the book I want, but I also know You care about the details of my life, so if that book is on the shelf, please help me to see it." I walked all down the book aisle, looking in every section, and did not see the book. There was a clearance bin,...more
Alan Christoffersen, a once-successful advertising executive, wakes one morning to find himself injured, alone, and confined to a hospital bed in Spokane, Washington. Sixteen days earlier, reeling from the sudden loss of his wife, his home, and his business, Alan left everything he knew behind and set off on an extraordinary cross-country journey. Carrying only a backpack, he planned to walk to Key West, the farthest destination on his map. But a vicious roadside stabbing has interrupted Alan’s...more
I liked this second book of The Walk series. In this story, Allen Christoffersen is recovering from a roadside stabbing before he can continue his walk to Key West, Florida. I enjoyed reading how he was able to help "Angel" who took him into her apartment while he recovered---well, actually save her. I liked having more story to read this time and deeper character development, since he worked with people in longer intervals than just passing through towns. The end of the story got back to the we...more
I picked up Miles to Go by Richard Paul Evans on purpose. I'm not a fan of his writing, but I wanted an uplifting book for the holidays. Reading it reminded me of why I'm not a fan of his writing. It should have been an uplifting book. It had all the parts of the formula: sad story, characters overcoming hard times, a happy ending. The problem was it had all the parts of the formula. All of his books follow the same formula and when I read them, I get bored. There are no surprises, no suspense,...more
Feb 16, 2012
Shelly
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3 of 5 stars
Recommended to Shelly by:
Kathy Miller
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Not as good as The Walk. I felt like Evans pushed this one, kind of like "I need a middle book so just write something". A lot of details I didn't need, like how to make a sandwich on the road - literally how to open the mayo packet etc. But in-between there were some real gems, note:
"We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours." p. 3...more
"We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours." p. 3...more
The continuation of The Walk by Richard Paul Evans. In this small novel Alan wakes up in a hospital in Spokane, Washington with three knife wounds to his stomach, inflicted by a gang. He has only walked 318 of the 3,500 miles in his journey from Seattle to Key West, Florida. Alan has lost everything important in his life and walks, with only the bare necessities on his back, to get through the pain - well he did, until he was jumped by the gang outside Spokane. Now, lying in a hospital bed regai...more
Miles to Go is the second book in The Walk series by Richard Paul Evans. It is written in the first-person point of view of Alan Christoffersen, a middle-aged man with a once-perfect life. After his wife died, his partner stole his company, and his bank foreclosed on his home, Alan decided to liquidate his assets and walk across the country to Key West, Florida, the farthest point from his home in Seattle, Washington. The books tell the story of his journey, focusing on the people he meets duri...more
NOTE*** The second journal of “The Walk” series. The first was titled: “The Walk”. MILES TO GO continues where The Walk left off. Book 3 will be released in April 2012.
Alan Christoffersen, thirty-two-years old, is writing the second journal of his walk from a hospital bed. His plan to walk to Key West, Florida from Seattle, Washington was interrupted when he was mugged, stabbed, and left to die on the side of the road in Spokane, Washington. Sixteen weeks earlier, within a 5-week period, Alan lo...more
Alan Christoffersen, thirty-two-years old, is writing the second journal of his walk from a hospital bed. His plan to walk to Key West, Florida from Seattle, Washington was interrupted when he was mugged, stabbed, and left to die on the side of the road in Spokane, Washington. Sixteen weeks earlier, within a 5-week period, Alan lo...more
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I think I liked this book a little better than the first one. It was a quick, easy, read. Although it was enjoyable, the story hit me as a bit contrived and somewhat preachy rather than purely inspirational. I was also left feeling a little puzzled about certain elements of the plot-line. The Angel/Nicole thing did not sit really well with me for some reason. Again, we got to hear a lot about what Alan ate and I'm not sure what relevance that has to play in the story. I found myself getting a li...more
This is the second book in "The Walk" series. These books are full of a lot of wise sayings such as, "We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road way. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours."
After some bad luck in the last book, Alan Cristoffersen needs someplace to recoop. A lady named, Angel, offers to take him home. After being with her, he realizes Angel has her own probl...more
After some bad luck in the last book, Alan Cristoffersen needs someplace to recoop. A lady named, Angel, offers to take him home. After being with her, he realizes Angel has her own probl...more
The second in the series by Paul Evans that is about a successful busnessman in Seattle who loses everything he holds near and dear. In the first book he begins his trek to walk across America to Key Largo, Florida in hopes of finding happiness again. The story takes off with the character having made it to Spokane via an ambulance after a tragic event injures him. In Spokane he finds a woman who would help and befriend him until his healing is complete and he can leave on his trek again. Richar...more
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Alan is recovering from being stabbed while walking to Key West. While he is there the only person that comes to look for him is and Angel, no really that is her name. Alan helped her with a flat tire and turned down a ride then was shortly mugged, stabbed, robbed.
Angel volunteers to take Alan home while he recoups from his hospital stay. Angel and Alan help each other get through the hard days ahead of them both. Angel has a deep secret that she is running from and with the help of Alan and he...more
Angel volunteers to take Alan home while he recoups from his hospital stay. Angel and Alan help each other get through the hard days ahead of them both. Angel has a deep secret that she is running from and with the help of Alan and he...more
I don't usually pick up books such as this one; inspirational, moving, journey books. I don't know why, maybe it's because I feel like they're mostly written from a shrink's point of view or something. I must say, I was entirely wrong when it came to this book and I'm glad I got it.
Could you tell I liked it? I finished the entire book in under 24 hours. I didn't get much sleep last night because I couldn't put it down. Why? Maybe it's the constant suspense of the everlasting foreshadowing. Or pe...more
Could you tell I liked it? I finished the entire book in under 24 hours. I didn't get much sleep last night because I couldn't put it down. Why? Maybe it's the constant suspense of the everlasting foreshadowing. Or pe...more
Miles to Go is #2 in the journey of Alan Chrisoffersen. The flow is soft yet sometimes emotional. I got started and couldn't put it down.
Alan hadn't made it out of his home state of Washington when he was jumped and stabbed leaving him critically wounded. His trek to Key West, Florida, on hold while he rehabilitates at the home of a kind woman he met along the road.Alan has to stay with Angel for a length of time for a couple of reasons, one being the weather and the other his injuries. He won'...more
Alan hadn't made it out of his home state of Washington when he was jumped and stabbed leaving him critically wounded. His trek to Key West, Florida, on hold while he rehabilitates at the home of a kind woman he met along the road.Alan has to stay with Angel for a length of time for a couple of reasons, one being the weather and the other his injuries. He won'...more
"Korczak's greatest legacy is not a public one, the massive stone mountain that he conquered, but the mountain he first conquered in himself - a mountain that he climbed alone - and in this we can all empathize. For there are moments in all lives, great and small, that we must trudge alone our forlorn roads into infinite wilderness, to endure our midnight hours of pain and sorrow - the Gethsemane moments, when we are on our knees or backs, crying out to a universe that seems to have abandoned us...more
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Wow, this has been one of my favorite stories or series in some time! I wasn't quite as excited about the potential of this book due to the fact that it began with rehabilitation rather than the journey...But the quality of writing, and depth of relationships and personal introspection quickly dispelled that notion.
We join Alan as he recovers from his knife wounds, with new friend Angel...As caring as she is he sees that she has her own buried hurts and secrets. They develop a pure and natural f...more
We join Alan as he recovers from his knife wounds, with new friend Angel...As caring as she is he sees that she has her own buried hurts and secrets. They develop a pure and natural f...more
NOTE TO SELF: Do not pick up one of Rick's books at 11:30 pm...chances are you will not want to put it down!! Pick it up, say, maybe on a Sunday afternoon instead! Arrrgh, way to leave us hanging in the end!! Perfect!
Resplendent characters, tender stories, sagacious wisdom, as usual!
Anyone who has lost a loved one will relate to the scene where Alan realizes he can't escape the past, only keep taking steps of faith and hope, building a bridge to the future.
LTJOAM:
LARKIN MORTUARY gets a mention....more
Resplendent characters, tender stories, sagacious wisdom, as usual!
Anyone who has lost a loved one will relate to the scene where Alan realizes he can't escape the past, only keep taking steps of faith and hope, building a bridge to the future.
LTJOAM:
LARKIN MORTUARY gets a mention....more
What a good read!
The first book in the series “The Walk” was the start of the journey and this book picks up right where the last one left off. It makes the reader feel like you are taking the expedition with the author as well as the narrator/main character (Alan).
I like that the story is told in a first person, journal-entry style. You get a better feel for the trek across the country and how the landscape mirrors what the character is going through emotionally and physically.
Near the end of...more
The first book in the series “The Walk” was the start of the journey and this book picks up right where the last one left off. It makes the reader feel like you are taking the expedition with the author as well as the narrator/main character (Alan).
I like that the story is told in a first person, journal-entry style. You get a better feel for the trek across the country and how the landscape mirrors what the character is going through emotionally and physically.
Near the end of...more
I bring a book when I go to work just in case I have a minute to read during my breaks. I usually don't get very far. Too many distractions or often I'm too tired to do anything but crash in the recliner. However, I discovered that I was able to concentrate when I was reading this book at work. I figured out why. There was a lot of dialogue. That moved the reading along rather quickly. It helped also that this was another tug at the heartstrings kind of book.
This was a nice follow through to th...more
This was a nice follow through to th...more
Miles to Go continues where The Walk left off. Alan Christoffersen is continuing his journey on foot from Seattle to Key West Florida in a way to come to terms with the recent death of his wife McKale, the betrayal of a business partner and the loss of his home.
Alan wakes up in a hospital after suffering a near fatal knife attack. Angel, a woman that he met at the end of book one is sitting there since her business card was the only thing on Alan and the authorities were hopeful that she could...more
Alan wakes up in a hospital after suffering a near fatal knife attack. Angel, a woman that he met at the end of book one is sitting there since her business card was the only thing on Alan and the authorities were hopeful that she could...more
I would probably have only given Miles To Go three stars, but I really enjoy stories about extended travels. Otherwise, this is a good solid three of a novel. I like Richard Paul Evans’ stories, and enjoyed the first novel in this series. Really the only complaint I have about the second is that it crams a lifetime’s worth of “coincidental” meetings and involvements into a few short months. But then, that is what makes for an entertaining, and occasionally inspiring, novel.
In this continuation,...more
In this continuation,...more
An easy to read story of finding hope in the midst of grief and tragedy. Miles to Go continues the story of Alan Christoffersen’s walk from Seattle to Key West. In this, the second installment, Alan recovers very slowly from a crippling and near fatal beating from a gang that left him near death. He would have been dead but for the intervention of a trucker. It describes his convalescence in the hospital with daily visits from Angel. Angel is the woman he helped on a desolate road in Washington....more
“Miles to Go”, the second journal of “The Walk” series by Richard Paul Evans, begins with Alan recovering from his near-death mugging. In this series, it is quite obvious that the story, like life, is not about the destination, it is about the journey. And it’s not just the simple act of getting from one place to another; it is the stops along the way and the chance meetings with others that define this story, as they affect Alan’s life. The author illustrates quite vividly how choosing a certai...more
Miles to Go is the second book in a series of three (third released in Spring 2012). Richard Paul Evans continues a story about a man dealing with the loss of evreything in his sucessful life (no spoiler there, you find that out in the first 25 pages of the first book). Alan Christofferson, the protaganist, decides to walk from Washington state to Key West Florida. At the start of the second book, Alan is dealing with a situation he did not forseen and is relying on the kindness of others.
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With all the tragedy Alan has experienced and seen you'd think this book would be full of extreme highs and deep lows but instead of experiencing mountains and valleys Miles to Go is more like rolling hills. There's nothing wrong with rolling hills. They can be quite beautiful and there are several beautiful moments in this book. Richard Paul Evans is full of insights and one liners that really make you think. That alone would be worth reading this book.
My single most complaint is that I don't...more
My single most complaint is that I don't...more
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When Richard Paul Evans wrote the #1 best-seller, The Christmas Box, he never intended on becoming an internationally known author. His quiet story of parental love and the true meaning of Christmas made history when it became simultaneously the #1 hardcover and paperback book in the nation. Since then, more than eight million copies of The Christmas Box have been printed. He has since written ele...more
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