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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.3
Fabric Type: 9780316110259
Fax Number: 1
Legal Disclaimer: 0316110256
Maximum Color Depth: Little, Brown and Company
Metal Type: Little, Brown and Company
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 592
Total External Bays Free: October 29, 2008
Total Firewire Ports: Little, Brown and Company
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Product Description:
About a quarter century ago, a previously unknown writer named William Least Heat-Moon wrote a book called Blue Highways. Acclaimed as a classic, it was a travel book like no other. Quirky, discursive, endlessly curious, Heat-Moon had embarked on an American journey off the beaten path. Sticking to the small places via the small roads--those colored blue on maps--he uncovered a nation deep in character, story, and charm.
Now, for the first time since Blue Highways, Heat-Moon is back on the backroads. ROADS TO QUOZ is his lyrical, funny, and touching account of a series of American journeys into small-town America.
Average Rating: 
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Who is this pompous boring writer, and how can anyone find this book worth reading? It is not a travel book, it is not a novel it is not interesting, and it is definitely not worth the time it takes to read it. His wife is with him on this "adventure" and i imagine she is as boring as he is.
DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME READING THIS BOOK!
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Having enjoyed the authors earlier Blue Highways less than a year ago my wife gifted me Quaz for my 64th birthday. With that first book Least Heat Moon taught me that travel writing could go far beyond describing a trip. That within the outline provided by the trip the more engaging elements of characterization, drama and all kinds of other disciplines could be blended to create complex and interesting reading. I've read less than a quarter of the book and will finish it just like the skim milk I ... Read More
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This travelogue by Least Heat-moon is a wonderful return to his old Blue Highways curiosity about the land and the people on it--NOT about the geologic substratum or the long-grass ecology. I was disappointed in Praire Erth: long, dry, more meditation than anything. Roads to Quoz is making me laugh on page after page. Heat-Moon has a wonderful sense of the small, touching, and sometimes silly--but often just human. We get enough of his meditation, but also some of his people-watching. his wife ... Read More
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Mr. Heat-Moon has done it again. "Roads to Quoz" is another entertaining, enlightening read as we accompany him and his wife on their ramblings through various parts of the country in search of the oddities they call "quoz." I am always amazed at the lengths he is willing to go to in order to find the things that make places and people unique and fascinating.
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I bought the book after hearing portions of the reading by Dick Estell on the NPR Radio Reader. It's an entertaining road-trip sort of book that isn't heavy reading and doesn't get bogged down. There is detail in the writing and the style and vocabulary is pleasing to read, to me at least.
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