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Goin' to Nebraska

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I have been honored to read this book and it is my pleasure to write my review.

The book is a joy and fun to read!

Nowadays, when our life the way we live it, our entertainment is so much commercialized, action packed, when everything is fast paced, digitized, high tech, and most importantly Matter of Fact, Richard Wall's book, Goin' To Nebraska, is a good reminder that nothing is matter of fact, and what did it take from the society and from the individual to get to, where we are now.

It slows the fast paced life and environment down a bit. While you are reading it and takes you back in time to the 50s, when the larger part of America lived their life, worked their life in a way that city dwellers could never imagined. How food got on their table, for instance. What did it take to produce it? How much dedication it required from those people who had got way less reward and respect for what they did.

In the meantime, the writer, who seems to identify himself as the person who traveled to the relatives at age of 12, gives an insight of his own struggle with his father's lack of trust, care, and appreciation. Despite being a city boy, he easily fits in this rural environment, and life style. He gained their respect for being so motivated, helpful and respectful. Why then his father looks down on him? He is searching for the answer. Eventually, he finds some explanation, but still the book suggests the reader that to be successful and overcome childhood difficulties, is up to us too. No matter what negative background we used to have, as opposed to the today's practice, where the individual is almost completely exempted from every responsibility.

I also liked the purest form of the region's dialect the writer is using,

All in all, I liked reading this book a lot. It also reminded me not only about my upbringing, but how much familiarities we used to have in the 50s, even if I was living half a world away from America. Richard Wall's book is so different from the today's main stream literature and time spent well of reading it.

Tony G.