Road Trips, Head Trips, and Other Car-Crazed Writings | 
 enlarge | Creators: Jean Lindamood Jennings, P. J. O'rourke
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1148835
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Pbk. Ed
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Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0871137224
Dewey Decimal Number: 810.80355
EAN: 9780871137227
ASIN: 0871137224
Publication Date: July 29, 1998
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An anthology of road trip writing, Lindamood's collection includes well-known writers like Dave Barry, Calvin Trillen, S. J. Perelman, and Ernest Hemingway, plus 30 more, all rambling, philosophizing, riffing and narrating on the American pasttime of driving. From Hunter Thompson's desert drag race ravings to Allen Ginsberg's non-driver's plaint about pollution and the end of the world, you get to see the ongoing automotive love affair through the eyes of writers who know the road.
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Road Trips, Head Trips and Other Car-Crazed Writings is a delightful, eclectic look at all things automotive. Including fiction, journalism, and poetry, it offers such classic voices as Ernest Hemingway during his newspaper days, John Steinbeck and his search for America (accompanied by his French poodle, Charley), Bob Ottum's hysterical report on a trip to France with NASCAR champion Cale Yarborough (Le Mans hasn't been the same since Ol' Cale's Camaro), and the wonderfully witty S. J. Perelman, whose letters to the neighbors tell of a disastrous cross-country voyage by car to California. Whether fact or fiction, playful or contemplative, the selections in Road Trips, Head Trips, and Other Car-Crazed Writings comprise a riotous anthology that fully explores our love affair with the automobile. "As these essays, poems and stories attest, the automobile is more to us than just a transportation device. Steinbeck, Hemingway and Kerouac, along with thirty others write passionately of the road, documenting the special bond we have with our vehicles and celebrating the places, people and things we meet." -- Ann Arbor News
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 Enlightening, Entertaining and Candid June 26, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you are of an autombile mind, then "Road Trips..." is a great book to read while in the coffee shop, waiting for the drawbridge to come down, or just to fill time. It is a collection of short stories from various authors, making it a collage of driving cultural tidbits that inform and entertain. The hardcover edition is nostalgical, appealing--a beautiful, classical cover with natural, thick pages--that made me want to head down to Route 66 from beginning to end, and hit every diner in between. I'm glad to be a part of the American Culture, and especially the driving culuture, as peoples past could not have imagined--nor enjoyed--the thrill at travelling at a mile a minute as easily as putting on your clothes. "Road Trips..." is a journey in itself, and I dare not spoil the trip for you. Lindamood did a fantastic editing job by keeping her hands out of the mix unless necessary; she let the writer do the talking. Great reading for all minds over 15 (language). Makes a great gift for the driver in your life.
 Road Trips Rocks February 10, 1999
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is a well compiled anthology of porbably the best Automotive writings anywhere. Try it! Also...if you like this you should read her monthly column in Automobile Magazine.
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