Roads : Driving America's Great Highways (Paperback)

from BookConcierge

I'll say this for McMurtry, when he puts his mind to it he can paint a landscape as well as any author, and weave a story that will keep you riveted. I wish he'd done more of this in this memoir of a year spent traveling America's major highways. The book is like many major interstates ... miles ...

from thornton37814

I enjoy traveling. McMurtry's non-fiction travel book turned out to be a disappointment for me. He doesn't attempt to cover every highway or state in his travels, but instead of getting out on the interesting roads, he sticks to the Interstate Highway System for the most part. Then on top of that...

from michaelm42071

It's an odd book in which McMurtry makes the case for Interstate driving. I call it odd because McMurtry's method seems to be to think about or describe places as he drives by them. The book is full of sentences like "I also passed up a chance to revisit -----." "I wanted to drive the American ro...

from TimBazzett

Larry McMurtry's ROADS (2000) was only mildly entertaining to me. I started reading his books forty years ago, and read his first seven novels, then a few years later, I read LONESOME DOVE, which was something of a struggle to get through. So I laid off his books for several years. Last year I re...

from jennannej

When I began, I really didn't like this book. The author wasn't TALKING about anything at all. Just rambling on about weather and highway conditions and then he started promoting all of the books he had written. And in this book I wrote about...And in that book... Also, he never stopped. He only ...