( 9 reviews )
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Posted: Feb 10 2009
Very disappointed with Amazon's service, as I put in my request two and a half weeks ago, for the above read, and trying to track my order, it says sometime in MARCH! Why, MARCH 16th, when you pride yourselves with quick service? I really think that ~45 days is a bit over the cliff! Ok, Where's My Stuff?
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Posted: Jan 5 2009
Subtitled "a true story of ruin and survival," The Way Out is an account of Childs' and his good friend Dirk Vaughn's mid-winter crossing of a convoluted wilderness area along the Arizona-Utah border. During their sixteen day adventure the two men face not only the challenges of the broken, primeval terrain, but they also deal with their own inner demons--Childs' anger over the psychological damage inflicted by his late alcoholic father; Dirk's memories of the persons he harmed (including one man he killed accidentally) during his career as a policeman. If highly detailed description of a multi-day exploration through a maze of canyons carved out of Navajo sandstone, including flashbacks to earlier traumatic experiences, is your bag, this is the book for you. I, however, was almost as tired of the duo's adventure as they were by the end of the book. There may be such a thing as too much description.
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( 7 of 10 found this review helpful ) Posted: May 14 2007
The Way Out is a book you'll want to read over and over again. It's just too powerful to fully absorb in one reading. As with "The Secret Knowledge of Water", Mr. Childs leads you into the very psyche of Living Land. He bears his soul and humbles himself before a chasm of rock. An absolute master of imagery and metaphor, Mr. Childs doesn't just take you into the majesty of a canyon or the solitude of the desert, he empties you out there so that you might fill again. "The Way Out" is his best work yet. Susan Haley, Author RAINY DAY PEOPLE
