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Coming and Going on Bikes: Essaying the Motorcycle (Riding Home) |  | Author: Jack Lewis
Publisher: Blue Feather Press
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 24663
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 002
ASIN: B0038YWRDI
Publication Date: March 18, 2010
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Product Description
Since his first feature in Motorcyclist magazine, contributing editor Jack Lewis has set a high bar in polarizing the readership. Letters to the editor may brim with love or sizzle with hatred, but are never indifferent. Castigated by his editor for routinely doubling his allotted space, this "rider's cut" provides a deeper glimpse into the mind behind "Stoned to the Bone" and "Dancing with the Devil."
Published here for the first time at their original length, this six-pack of stories (including the classic “Riding Home,”) takes you from wide open desert to twisting mountain roads. You’ll get a panoramic view through the writer’s rose-colored visor. Lewis knows why lovers laugh and riders ride, and lays it out here with style and integrity.
More stored energy than a gallon of gas, for about the same money.
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Wonderful writing April 27, 2010
H. M. Lewis (Spokane, WA, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Truth-in-reviewing: Jack Lewis and I aren't related that we know of, though we share the same last name. We are simply friends of the kind who have yet to visit each others home.
Jack writes editorials for one of my favorite magazines, MOTORCYCLIST. Really good, interesting editorials, which are rare in that genre of magazine when they span beyond the narrow range of motorcycle-related subjects as Jack's writing does. I'm happy that he got some of his writing onto Amazon, where I can put it on my Kindle2 and read (and re-read) it.
I particularly like the lead essay in this collection, "Riding Home". Jack's writing style is reminiscent of two of my favorite authors, William Gibson and Hunter S. Thompson. He has a way of constructing just the right phrase to evoke an entire emotion or scene, one you've likely experienced yourself. He writes about Idaho back roads and my personal memories of those same highways and places light up in my mind. I wish I could write like that.
Jack understands bikes and the people who ride them in the way that only a fellow biker can. His gift is that he can write about it and bring a tear to your eye, or make you want to call that old riding buddy you haven't talked to in years. His writing makes me want to get on my bike and just take off for a few days. It is, as they say, all about the journey -- not the destination.
Jack's writing is a journey...
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