Random Walk
Oct. 10th, 2007 05:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jenkA new hardcover edition of Random Walk is coming out, with a forward written by Spider Robinson (also available here). For the uninitiated, I'll excerpt Block's description of Random Walk on his website:
I think the book is well worth a read, though not necessarily worth buying a signed-by-Larry-and-Spider $100 hardback. But then again, maaaaaybe it is. We'll see.
Tor, 1988. A bartender in Roseburg, Oregon, quits his job and walks across the Cascades. He keeps on walking, and other folks join in, and remarkable things happen. Meanwhile, a real estate guy in Kansas starts driving around the Midwest, killing young women at an astonishing pace. This is a book that some people don't get at all, while others tell me they read it seventeen times and it changed their lives.The book is a blend of thriller, self-discovery and what if?, served on a bed of deceptively readable prose, with a touch of woo-woo on top :)
I think the book is well worth a read, though not necessarily worth buying a signed-by-Larry-and-Spider $100 hardback. But then again, maaaaaybe it is. We'll see.
