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| Uneasy Rider: Travels Through a Mid-life Crisis | 
 enlarge | Author: Mike Carter
Publisher: Ebury Press
Category: Book
List Price: £10.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 4132
Media: Paperback
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0091922682
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.304929
EAN: 9780091922689
ASIN: 0091922682
Publication Date: February 7, 2008
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 Excellent entertainment and insight into the mid life crisis May 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have read nearly every motorcycle travel book availible and i must say this is probably the most entertaining. As i approach my own 40th birthday i now understand my own 'mid life crisis' so clearly explained by the author. That aside, this book has been a true joy to read, funny, serious, happy, sad, bike travel, adventures etc etc etc. If you like travel books and/or are approaching middle age (crisis) and/or enjoy good reading you must buy this book. I truly hope to be able to follow Mike on his next trip, ride soon!
Beautiful ride and reading April 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a page turner, funny, witty and intelligent. I couldn't stop myself until I finished. It can be an enjoyable reading for both bikers and non bikers as it develops in the best tradition of humour and travel literature.
Highly recommended. And if you just turned 40 (as me) so much the better.
Uneasy Rider - Easily Readible April 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't `do' travel books as a rule since even the odd snippet of Bill Bryson I have consumed leaves me cold. So when a family member recommended Uneasy Rider I sneakily browsed the first chapter whilst lurking behind a conveniently large pillar in my local Borders. Hardly ideal conditions to discover a new talent when you are mainly concerned with eluding the store detective, but the fact that despite all these obstacles the book reeled me in was reason enough to part with the required money and read the rest without the handicap of a guilty conscience.
I am so glad that I did. Like all the best reads, you find yourself laughing along with - and occasionally, at - an author who happily does not take himself too seriously. I formed a bond with him that has outlasted the book and leaves me keen to know what happens next, both to him and to so many of the other eclectic and eccentric multi national cast of characters that inhabit practically every page of what turned out to be a warm, funny and deeply touching personal odyssey.
The fact that he is sensible enough also to support my own football team, West Bromwich Albion, would be enough for me to view him as another Adrian Chiles to be hero worshipped by a fellow baggie even if the work was as second rate as the team have all too often been in the past. But this book is no Championship wannabe; rather it belongs on the shelf with other Premier League titles and should be pushing for Europe, which is richly and appropriately ironic given the global flavour of its impressively written contents.
More please Mike Carter and please can I have a ride on your bike? Just keep your `idiot' to yourself!
AN enjoyable ride! March 19, 2008
For an insight into a man's mind in the throws of a mid life crisis, this is a wise and witty read. Funny, well written and charming.
Uneasy Rider March 9, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Uneasy Rider is one of those rare books which manages to straddle genres and defy categorisation, whilst at the same time remaining immensely readable and hugely entertaining. This is a book which will appeal to men and women alike, bikers and non-bikers, the adventurous and the armchair traveller. It's a book about dreams broken and pieced together again, about making sense of the past and uniting it with the present and of bonds forged and boundaries crossed. It is a book about people written with insight, humanity and humour.
Mike Carter has achieved a fine balance between travelogue and self-confessional, which makes his book so much more than the usual series of postcards from a journey. The descriptions are lusciously vivid and his landscape is peopled with remarkable, quirky and wonderful characters. The theme of a mid-life crisis, its manifestations and the possible reasons for it, is woven through a series of beautifully realised vignettes, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, sometimes heart-rendingly poignant, strung together by the narrative of the journey.
There is an honesty and frankness about Uneasy Rider which is as appealing as the self-deprecating humour and it is written with such confidence that the erudition (of which there is plenty) is neither laboured nor inaccessible. Personally, I would have been happy to learn more about the author's life (because I'm nosey like that!), but then it's also the mark of a good book when you are so engaged that you care what happens after you close the cover. I wanted to know more - what became of Margaret, did he ever go to see the Aussies on their home territory, what happened to Hanne....
Uneasy Rider made me laugh out loud and brought tears to my eyes. I finished it thinking that I had found not so much a travelling companion as a really good friend.
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