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Summary: Wander And Learn
Review: A Education of a Wondering Man, the book of Louis Lamour's life story. In the book Louis quits school and leaves his home of North Dakota, to go on his own personal life journey. The book starts out strong with a good opening and a great story. The book starts out great, but throughout Louis journey through his life he becomes preachy and developes a strong sense of himself and his thoughts and ideas. In the book Lamour quotes a lot of fasmous authors, poets, famous people, and ect. And his thirst for the written word, I'm not sure whether to pitty him or hold him in high regaurd. He craves books but too a point that is almost sickening. Although the knowledge he gains is endless, and that is honorable without a doubt, but I dont think that knowledge was why he made it. Luck was on his side for most of his journey and in that you can make it through the worst time in your life. My whole take on the book is life wasn't fun for Lamour and his education was over. His life was fun and exciting, but no one will ever make it throught life with that life style. This is only my view though, not everyone will share the same view. In other words dont let me judge the book for you I am just giving you my thoughts and opinions, I like books like the Outsiders, Survivor and Lullabye. This may just not be my kind of book. Louis Lamour is a creative and enteresting writer with a lot to say, and he still has left things unsaid on a lot of subjects he has delt with. Louis Lamour has a certain gift for writing, just not one I like to read. To close this off I will just say that the book in my eyes wasnt so spectacular, but that is my judgment not yours. And if my judgment makes you avoid the book than thats not what I was aiming for. I am just giving my input on a friendly subject. And if you come across the book then pick it up read a little bit of it, and maybe you'll like it.
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Summary: Eduction of a Wandering Man
Review: Education of a wandering man,
This book had its goods and bads. Louis LaMour had many adventures in his day. he travled all over the world, he was a boxer (and had good boxing contacts and friends). On his adventures he met many exotic and famous people. He was hobo train hopper who met old wise with great stories and tells them to you in his book. he was also a very big reader, and tells you about odd and interesting books that you probably would never have heard of otherwise, and if you like this book you could be inspired to read some of them.
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Summary: education of a wandering man
Review: I personally think that Education of a wandering man is a outstanding book because it tells of a mans own adventures and how he went all over the us hoping trains and finding work on his own. i would recomend this book to any one who wants to read an exciting book. i hope that you do read this book and that you enjoy it.
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Summary: Maria's Book Reveiw
Review: I read this book for my reading class. I like horror and mysteries so it wasn't appealing to me but i gave it a try. The first few chapters were interseting but as I got past like chapter 12 it got a bit boring. It had good information and good concepts but it didn't grab my attention like horror or mysteries do. It was interesting to read about Louie Lamour because I have never read any of his books before this one but I saw some of his movies on T.V. I did like this book but I would only recomend it for people who like biography's or whatever genera this book would fall under. I would give this book 1 thumb up out of 2. Anyway I hope who ever else reads this book enjoys it. Have fun reading...
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Summary: an interesting read
Review: I really enjoyed this book. L'Amour had a really hard life in his youth, and knows first hand what it's like to be starving and what it feels like to finally get to eat after a long period of starvation (you eat gingerly because your stomach is no longer used to have food in it). You get the impression that this is a humble man who truly worked very hard at a variety of jobs, some very hard incdeed, and who ended up being a working writer and a little overwhelmed by his astounding success. There were some really interesting passages about what it's like to write as a craft. A must read for budding writers.
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Summary: A ok book
Review: This book at some parts has very interesting stories. Louis L'amour has been through many interesting situations before which he describes in this book very well. At some times he can be very preachy so you just are goin to have to get through though parts fast to find the tiny nugget of information he leaves. He has good points that are sometimes hard to discover under his words. There are interesting facts of history also in this book. signed the g who read this book himself, R G C
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Summary: l.l. book review
Review: This book was a very well written book, but got boring many times throughout the book. In terms of likeing the book, it was average. Even though I dont really care about L.L. or what he wrote, at most times, I enjoyed the book very much. Compared to all the books that Ive read, it would be more like a 1, but this was a biography, and it was on something that I didnt really care about, I was excited at times. Overall the book was very well written and made alot of sense. I liked the book at some points, then disliked it at others.
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Summary: Mr. Roberts Class
Review: This Book was not my favorite book i have ever read, but it did have some parts that really pulled me in like the part at the mine and then going through the dessert. What i did not like about this book was when louie wouled talk about the books that he read because i had no clue what those books were or who the authers were. I really liked the boxing parts of the book were louie would talk about his boxing and his carer.
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Summary: Vintage L'Amour
Review: Unfortunately, this is the closest L'Amour fans will come to a true autobiography of a great American and writer. L'Amour starts this book with a reference to his high school class graduating while he was on a steamer in Indonesia. Thus, L'Amour sets the stage for his lengthy discussion of becoming self-educated through books, and experience. In this book, L'Amour presents lists of books he read during his wandering years in the 30s. I particularly enjoyed the part where he described the difference between a hobo and a bum. Accoring to L'Amour, hoboes were not freeloaders, they just used the rails to follow the crop picking from one part of the country to the next. A bum, on the other hand, has no intention of working, and looks for handouts. This distinction was an eye opener to me. Also, his discussion of walking outof th eMojave desert hit close to home, as I was born and raised in the area he described. L'Amour was a great researcher, and wrote from both personal experience and knowledge. This is an enjoyable book and has even been included in numerous literature courses in various universities. Throughout the book, L'Amour emphasizes the value of education through experience and self-guided reading; however, he never degrades formal education as a route to discovery and self improvement.
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