BooksWe love books. Tell us about your favourite books and authors, and why they are so good. And while you're at it - having dined out for years on the time I threw Dan Brown out of a train window - tell us who to avoid.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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William Least Heat Moon'sBlue Highways, one of my fave reads and I recently discovered was the inspiration for a friend to take to the highways of the US on a monumental road trip.
I'm sure you can just google it so I won't go into detail, suffice to say that I re-read it every few years and it brings me as much pleasure as the first time.
It's a travelogue that you just don't want to end, not ever.
His attempt to cross the US by small boat, coast to coast was rather spiffing too.
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Infidel , shit and wrong, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 13:33,
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I talk to USians about thisand oft get blank looks. Fundamentally it's about travel off the main highways, where lies Old America. Sadly, so many people now are uninterested in going anywhere they might actually have to eat non-fast-food.
P.S. Read this after coming to the US and have successfully crossed largish chunks of it since, on back roads. Yum.
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