"Following a friend's suicide in 2003, I faced my own suicidal depression and a choice. Dwell in grief or run gonzo crazy and free in the opposite direction, blazing bright and deep in the jungles of America, hiking and writing until my feet and fingers bled with a pure, honest, screeching love for life." Lending levity to tragedy, author Rick McKinney loads readers into his backpack for a 2000-mile Appalachian Trail odyssey, dealing a passionate, endorphin-fueled gonzo blow to suicidal thinking. Dead Men is a deeply empathic, unorthodox prescription for a nation depressed. It delivers an endorphin charged blow to a Prozac-dependent world.
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This review is from: DEAD MEN HIKE NO TRAILS (Paperback)
Do not begin this book lightly, for once you have begun you are in for the long haul, the whole enchilada. You will want to finish this book just as much as Rick McKinney wanted to finish his hike and when it's over you will be looking around for more, more trails to follow with this dude. It is the height of irony that one who suffers so much is such a light, such a kick to be around. Such is the dance near the abyss, a dangerous place to tread but damn, what a view!
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No Fear Of Roadside Attractions,
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Well-traveled wordsmith Rick McKinney leaves the highway and takes a long hike, writing as he goes, uplinking chapters to his editors, then emerges from the mountains with this fine explorama into the depths of emotion and the sparks that fire, and backfire, within the human mind. Musings run long on life, both comedic and tragic, pathetic and magic. This writer's pen seems at once dipped in the same ink as Thompson, Kerouac, Tom Robbins and Bukowski, with refinements you encounter in the writings of Paul Theroux.I'm only part way through the reading of Dead Men. I feel so pulled into to the swimmery of McKinney's wonderful blend of the observational and the direct experiencial of life being lived, a life that has seen other lives come to crashing halts voluntarily, extended family of his who made an exit earlier than scheduled. The writer offers some understanding into why people choose to leave this life on there own terms. And the concept of hiking as therapy and prevention begs further exploration by those whose theories most of us subcribe. McKinney articulates well on uncomfortable subjects, then gives the reader relief with side-bars of humor and the erotic. I look forward to finishing this book and reading his next book. It's encouraging to see that someone is still burning the midnight oil on the lamp that lights the paper & pen of the Gonzo journal. -Reviewer: Hunter(not Thompson)
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Time for the rest of the world to discover this author,
This review is from: DEAD MEN HIKE NO TRAILS (Paperback)
This is probably the most painfully honest writing you'll ever read. McKinney isn't a writer that crafts phrases intentionally designed to make you feel or think one way or another. He simply creates a virtual verbal connection between his seriously warped mind (and I mean that in a good way) and his keyboard. You don't just take a trip with him along the Appalachian Trail, you take a trip through the heights and depths of his soul. It's as hard to describe the content of the book as it is to categorize it. Equal parts travel journal, private diary and whimsical commentary, this book will thrill you on one page, annoy you on another, amuse you and anger you on still others. Put simply, reading this book is like traveling with McKinney on his 2,000-mile hike: he'll get on your nerves from time to time, but you'll have an unforgettable experience.
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