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Title: I really wanted to like this book, but...
Review: Joe Kurmaskie has written a travelogue/ slices of life book based on several cross country bicycle trips (and one to Australia). The stories are pretty engaging and optimistic, and the author has obviously worked hard in an attempt to be entertaining.I am a bicyclist who has done some touring, so there were a lot of reasons why I really wanted to like this book. But there is so much hokiness, bragging, and pseudo-philosophizing in these stories that I could only read it in small doses.Kurmaskie has talent as a writer. I guess it seemed to me that instead of being content with his small stories he tried to make them big, huge, epic, deep. But he overinflated his mental tube. The result- a blowout at 30mph. He overreaches so much he sounds silly instead of profound.
