Carsick : john waters hitchhikes across america - hardcover: 9780374298630

from Big_Bang_Gorilla

In which cult filmmaker Waters takes off on a cross-country hitchhike, albeit bending the definition of 'hitchhike' a trifle. The book contains three parts; before he gets to the trip itself, he offers two novellas, one a best-case fantasy, the other the worst case. The latter is much funnier as ...

from weeta

Really, he could have left out the rather boring reality of his experience hitchhiking and just left it at the wonderfully filthy and fictional versions. This is one of those books that is most certainly best experienced as an audio book read by the author.

from etxgardener

In 2010, with the Great Recession drying up funding for his movies, John Waters decided to hitchhike from his home in Baltimore to his home in San Francisco and write a book about his experiences. All his friends told him he was crazy, but when his publisher gave him his book advance he was commi...

from Sullywriter

Waters is as outrageously entertaining as ever but this book would be better if he'd stuck to his real life hitchhiking experiences. In the first third of the book, Waters imagines wildly bawdy and debauched best-case scenarios and nightmarish worst-case scenarios in the second third. The last th...

from delphica

I cheated on this a little bit, because I didn't realize that half of it would be fictional short stories. I am a huge fan of John Waters as a person, but not particularly interested in his creative work. It always seems like it would be GREAT if you found it shocking, but I'm not really sure wha...