Larry McMurtry - Roads: Driving America's Great Highways

Pros: A new perspective on a great writer

Cons: Only one piece of the puzzle

Review: It's been said that the Interstate Highway System finally made it possible to travel from one coast of America to the other without seeing anything.

But "Roads," Larry McMurtry's new collection of essays, part Jack Kerouac, part...

Pros: descriptive and real

Cons: none

Review: I picked up this book today - and read it today. I was unable to put it down. This is a nonfiction account of 9 months last year and nine road trips the author took.

It's not a book about sights seen along the road, such as the biggest ball...

Pros: Unpretentious travelogue, easy reading.

Cons: Too easily dismisses certain states or regions.

Review: for anything written by this man that I've spent good money to be deeply disappointed many times over, and enjoyed myself anyway. There's just something about how he writes which I find so captivating, even when he poops out and goes for yet another...

Pros: I checked it out from the library so at least it was free

Cons: free of plot, free of direction, free of meaningful insight or clever wordplay

The Bottom Line: avoid this book if at all possible; nothing of merit in it

Review: Usually I am fascinated by Larry McMurtry's novels - the characters are compelling, the plots full of twists, and, what I like best of all, he seems to have a way of finding the perfect descriptive phrase, the phrase that makes you put the book down and...