That's What I Call Commuting: Real Stories from Conductors on Chicago's Metra Lines

by Ed Gabrielse, Mike Holinka

Book by Gabrielse, Ed, Holinka, Mike

Genres: Nonfiction

168 pages, Hardcover

First published October 22, 2003

Reviews

[Cat. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Having ridden on the Metra the few times I have, even I could contribute a story for this book. The authors are a long-time commuter and a conductor, but the stories are told from the latter point of view. Some of them are pretty horrifying (several pedestrian death stories), some are disgusting (involving bodily fluids) and a few are kind of sweet. Would have been helped by including more anecdotes, or details, or something: both my husband and I read this yesterday (well, I finished it this morning). Obviously self-published, but that's ok. It would be a good book to take on the train to get conversation started. And they are supposedly writing a follow-up volume called Tickets Please. Probably should tell my train-nut brother-in-law about this...

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mike Holinka was my train conductor. These stories are fun to read