Blue Highways

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Review #1

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Innumerable photos and poignant conversations with heart-of-America people, written by an out-of-a-job college instructor of white and Indian blood (whose wife happened to leave him at the same time) who decided to journey across the country in his modified van in the ’70s. Using mostly secondary roads (blue highways) allowed him to travel through small towns, along with experiencing many challenging skirmishes and enjoyable times with Mother Nature, frequenting out-of-the-way cafes and bars, meeting the locals, and learning the authentic history of our country from the horse’s mouth. What interesting descriptions of terrain, food, and people in many unknown or often forgotten small towns or almost-towns throughout the United States.

Review #3

Audiobook Blue Highways by Cris Dukehart

I’ve read a number of accounts of people traveling the country by car, truck, or motorcycle, and their experiences “off the beaten track”. This one is the best of the bunch! William Least Heat-Moon is a man I would love to have as a neighbor or friend, a highly sensitive and perceptive person who also has an exceptional ability to express his experiences and impressions. I’ve wandered the country myself, and he took me tight back to some of the best and worst experiences to be had out there.

Review #4

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I have to say, I was almost disappointed when the book ended. The author did a very good job at describing his journey around America. He avoided all of the typical tourist traps and just visited common places and people.

I liked the people he met and spoke with. However, his descriptions of the scenery, surroundings, and buildings were mostly uninteresting except when those had to do with the people he spoke with. I finished the book, so it must have been interesting on the overall, but there were numerous small sections which I found confusing. Here is one example: “He (man) stands apart in such a temporary way it is hardly worth talking about. If that perception dims egocentrism, that illusion of what man is, then it also enlarges his self, that multiple yet whole part which he has been, will be, is. Ego, craving distinction belongs to the narrowness of now; but self, looking for union, belongs to the past and future, to the continuum, to the outside. Of all the visions of the Grandfathers the greatest is this: To seek the high concord, a man looks not deeper within- he reaches farther out.” My reaction to this sort of thing is: What a bunch of pretentious sounding intellectual nonsense! IMHO Least Heat-Moon is at his best like when he quotes Tom Hunter “… sappin’ season’s time when the kids come home and my wife cooks for two hours to prepare a meal for the eleven of us.” That kind of talk is fun to hear; I can picture it. So I ended up glad I had read the book and weathered the other stuff. If I had my way, I would have whittled the contents down to about a third the number of pages.

Review #5

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I did enjoy Mr Least Heat Moon’s book, but I don’t think it is for everyone. If you are not a fan of the travelogue genre of books, this might be kind of boring and long-winded. Blue Highways is a good title, because it describes Mr Least Heat Moon’s journey through the backroads of America (shown as blue lines on certain maps) and also the somber tone of the book. Mr. LHM is just coming off the breakup of his relationship with the “Cherokee” and seems very depressed. He outfits a van and goes cruising through America for a few months. There are interesting and not-so-interesting people and places along the way and I give kudos to Mr. LHM for including both. The fact that he includes times when he was bored did help to make me feel like I was on the journey with him, experiencing its ups and downs. As other reviewers have noted, he does not speak deeply about his own feelings and emotions, and at some points I did wish he would open up a little more about what he was experiencing on this trip. There are some really good points in the book, including when he meets a team of hang gliders and an eccentric wandering missionary in one of the northern states. I can honestly say I learned a lot from reading this book about all kinds of things: history, fishing, culture, food, etc. I guess that is what Mr LHM really wanted us to take from his journey. To provide an account of backroads America at a certain point in time, and not focus too much on himself, why he undertook what he did and what he got out of it. I’d say there is some bias in favor of the blue-collar, skilled American and against what he seems to see as encroaching materialism, suburbanization and urbanization of rural America. I think the reader can decide how he/she feels about that.
I feel the strength of this book is as a historical account of America in the late 1970s. If you enjoy cultural and historical studies, not just of those in political power or of wars and such, this is the book for you. If you enjoy learning about how people live around the world or in the USA, you’ll learn much. It doesn’t read like a novel and has few if any thrilling moments. Overall I’d like to thank Mr. LHM for taking us along on his trip.

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