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Autobiography of a Hobo
From the introduction: Rather than gloat over having read the book already, or blather on about the artistic merits of the prose, let me just introduce you to a member of a "voluntary despised minority," a hobo. Neither a tramp or a bindlestiff, a goofer or a snowbird, a hobo is a "knight of the road," looking down upon the lowly beggars and addicts he sometimes shares his
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I thought this book might give a good insight into what life was like being a hobo, but this is not about the people he met while travelling. It's not a view on early America. It's a man's opinion about baseball and boxing. The opinions are not even amusing. The book is slow and dreadfully dull.
I felt let down and well half way through the book I called time on it. I was hoping to read a social history of America from the late 19th century onward from a Hobo's perspective but not to be. About 20% of it is what I wanted and then the rest is a commentary on baseball and boxing from the early 1900's onward. If that's your thing then this book won't disappoint.
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A Kindle comes into its own from the point that it's great to be able to look up people in history and American terminology of whic ...more
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