Angel Fire Book

I'm a sucker for road books. On the Road, Travels With Charlie, hey even The Odyssey ' I love 'em. But this one sucks. Maybe I'm missing something ' is this Slacker Culture? To passively schlep through life? The most exciting part of a 60-day road trip is being pulled on a burning sofa for a few minutes? This dude meets all these people and has no insights about them or how they live. He learns nothing. Does he have any passion for life? Any ambition to make somebody's life better? Any interest in, oh I dunno, social justice or something? He's both a bore and a boor who mistreats people, kind of a sociopath who doesn't seem to even realize how he's hurting people.

I'm giving it two stars because one star is reserved for books I throw against the wall. This one, I made it to the finish hoping he'd redeem himself and realize what a self-centered asshole he was. He didn't.