|
|
Motorcycle Book Store > Motorcycle books beginning with L
|
The Longest Ride: My Ten-Year 500,000 Mile Motorcycle Journey |
Author: Emilio Scotto
Published: 2007-03-15 |
List price: $34.95
Our price: $20.97
|
Usually ships in 24 hours
As of: August 20th, 2008 11:49:59 AM
|
|
|
Customer comments on this selection.
 The Longest Ride:
Words can not give this book justice. I bought it to read about a ride and I was given an in-depth geography and political lesson. This is a fun book but with tremendous insight and humor. One of the few books about motorcycle travel I could not put down. It is real and revealing not only about the man but the peoples and human nature of the world. If you can't take a trip like this, this is one book you can read and almost experience the ride yourself. I plan to buy two more, one for friends to read and one for my college Library. This book will always be on my personal bookshelf, Thank you Emilio Scotto.
The Longest Ride Review
This book is an absolute must read for any serious motorcycle adventure rider. It is a testament to one man's courage and determination to follow your dream whatever it may be.
 Started Great and Then Fizzled
This book started off really well with lots of interesting narrative and great pictures. Although it was obviously written in spanish and translated to English, the strange wordings add to the fun of the book.
But as time goes on, he writes less and less and relies on pictures to tell the story - whole countries pass with barely more than "then I went to...". By the time he gets married, there is almost no narrative at all, so it seems that he lost interest in the book and had a publisher's deadline to meet.
The first half of the book is 5 star, the last half 1-2 star, so I give it a 3 star rating overall.
Amazing story
The book starts off in tremedous detail and gives an insight into how someone unprepared for the journey ahead can meet and conquer unforeseen obstacles both figuratively and physically. As with other road trip books, as it nears the end, large chunks of the trip are missing as the book races towards completion. I felt very dissappointed at the end of the book to have missed so much of the journey compared to the start.
 read every night without expeption until finished...
very nice expept the last 50 pages from there its as he was trying to just finish it.
|
Similar Listings
|
|
Our Motorcycle book picks:
|
|
Search the Motorcycle Products Store
LCS Amazon Store 2.5 © 2008
|
|
