( 7 reviews )
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Posted: Feb 23 2008
I so love this author ever since reading "Winter Dance". He's absurdly funny like...say...a Canadian sense of humor. This book was a good read. Quick. Hated to hit that last page.
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Posted: Jan 2 2008
It surprises me that there aren't more reviews of this nice little book - I know Gary Paulsen is a writer for youth, but this is a book for adults (careful of some of the language if you're easily offended). As a rider myself, I found many things Paulsen wrote about to be spot on, how a person can become attached to his machine. His "side trips" (ruminations) about previous life experiences were well written and interesting. Maybe I was just in the mood for an easy read about one of my favorite hobbies (motorcycling), but I liked this book a lot and have loaned it to a couple of my friends who have enjoyed it as well. I hope Paulsen reads this review so I can tell him how much I liked this book.
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( 1 of 3 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jan 16 2004
I had hoped for more from this book, which failed to hold my interest, despite being less than 200 pages. It's not a dud, however, but if you want an exciting read check out "Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba." I read this in one sitting, finishing about 4 a.m.! It's a fascinating and sometimes hilarious, sometimes hair-raising story of a 7,000-mile journey and justifiably won both the 2002 Lowell Thomas Award "Travel Book of the Year" and the North American Travel Journalist Association's Awards of Excellence "Grand Prize."
