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Summary: A One Sitting Read!
Review: A great read -- one of those one sitting books. Nerburn lives in Minnesota but in mid-life gets a hankering to re-explore the west coast he remembers from his college years. Some similarities to "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Makes me want to read some of the other things he's written.
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Summary: A One Sitting Read!
Review: A great read -- one of those one sitting books. Nerburn lives in Minnesota but in mid-life gets a hankering to re-explore the west coast he remembers from his college years. Some similarities to "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Makes me want to read some of the other things he's written.
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Summary: Insightful book
Review: I loved ROAD ANGELS. I didn't want to put it down. Being a midwesterner transplanted to Los Angeles twenty years ago, I was curious to see how the author viewed the West Coast. I was surprised, delighted and moved as he made his journey from the Canadian border to San Luis Obispo. The images of the landscapes he passes through and his detailed and thoughtful portraits of the people he encounters compelled me to keep reading. Nerburn's reflections on his trip over the road and his journey through life made me pause and think about my own life; where I had been and where I was going. The conclusion that he draws from his conversations with three very different men in the San Francisco area is beautiful in its spiritual simplicity. As the book comes to an end I was moved to tears by his description of an act of kindness and closure. This is a story that reveals in sensitive, insightful and often times humourous ways, the lives and longings of people we pass everyday. I thank the author for taking me along for the ride. Read ROAD ANGELS. It is wonderful.
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Summary: Road Angels is a great ride.
Review: I loved ROAD ANGELS. I didn't want to put it down. Being a midwesterner transplanted to Los Angeles twenty years ago, I was curious to see how the author viewed the West Coast. I was surprised, delighted and moved as he made his journey from the Canadian border to San Luis Obispo. The images of the landscapes he passes through and his detailed and thoughtful portraits of the people he encounters compelled me to keep reading. Nerburn's reflections on his trip over the road and his journey through life made me pause and think about my own life; where I had been and where I was going. The conclusion that he draws from his conversations with three very different men in the San Francisco area is beautiful in its spiritual simplicity. As the book comes to an end I was moved to tears by his description of an act of kindness and closure. This is a story that reveals in sensitive, insightful and often times humourous ways, the lives and longings of people we pass everyday. I thank the author for taking me along for the ride. Read ROAD ANGELS. It is wonderful.
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Summary: hard to figure
Review: I read this book twice. It is either very confused or very brilliant. On the second reading I decided it was brilliant. This is a very penetrating analysis of some very big issues about what it means to be an American. Very poetic, too. Elusive and hard to categorize. Kind of travel, kind of cultural criticism. Weird religious overtones. This is a good writer, maybe a great one.
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Summary: Kent's Best Book Since His Fabled "Neither Wolf Nor Dog"
Review: Kent Nerburn moved "out west" when he was in his twenties, for college and adventure; he eventually landed back in his native Minnesota, and in this book he revisits the West of his youth. I could not put this book down! I, too, moved out west in my twenties, for college and adventure; I, too, eventually landed back on my native east coast - but then I returned to the west and made it a home after all. I lived in many of the places Kent describes in this book and went through a lot of the same kind of angsts in those days of college and (mis)adventure. This book was like a guided tour of my own life in those times and places! Absolutely incredible ruminations about life's teachings; I was deeply moved by many passages in this book. It helps me understand a lot of what has motivated me in my life; it helps me understand why I found home out here. Beautiful writing as always from Kent, and another gem of a book. Easily his second best! As for his best book: Neither Wolf Nor Dog. Read them both!
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Summary: A Poetic, Gripping Journey
Review: Kent Nerburn's latest book is not only a road trip but a mind trip. It was a genuine pleasure to join Kent on his trek of re-discovery, and such are his descriptive and narrative talents, that the reader feels like a traveling companion -- as if Kent were telling you the story while you rode along in his car, or hoofed a trail beside him. His insights into American culture, human nature, and spirituality are keen and rewarding. This is a well-crafted book by an author who knows readers.
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Summary: very insightful and beautifully written
Review: This book is awesome! I love road books. This is one of the best. It is full of humor and mystery. You won't want to put it down! The way the author descibes people and places is incredible. One thing I didn't like was the title. It made me not want to read it. I thought it was going to be some new age junk. Boy was I wrong! When I was done I felt just like I had driven from Canada to San Francisco myself. The part about going up on Mount Saint Helens was great! The friends who told me about it live in Seattle. They said this book describes exactly why they live there. This is one of the best writers I have ever read! I think he is better than my other favorite, Larry McMurtry. :>
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Summary: Impressions of Road Angels
Review: This book is incredible! It is about an American journey, an American spiritual journey. Kent Nerburn shares his clear-eyed, middle-aged return to the left coast. This book is a bittersweet sojourn. It is as if the middle-aged Kent had to discover whether a small town in the northwoods of Minnesota had his heart or if his soul required the spirits of the west coast. His story takes you to exultant heights of the wonders of the human spirit and of creation that will make your spirit sing, yet gently grounds you in the sometimes grim realities of life in the United States. Road Angels will strike a chord with all Midwesterners who fled to the coast during their youth; yet found that the roots of the middle called them home.
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