Road Angels: Searching For Home Down America's Coast of Dreams

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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: This is my new favorite author
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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Summary: The altar of the plastic clown
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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Summary: Insightful book
Review: Very articulate and insightful reading. Authors use of the English language is artfully done. The book can be read on several levels from the mundane tasks of life to a much deeper sense . To me it is more about the dillemas we all face as human spiritual beings and how we try to make sense of that in a very material world. It has given me a new view of my life. I highly recommend it to anyone wishing for reading with some substance as well as enjoyment.