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Bezig met laden... The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Powerdoor Travis Hugh Culley
Penguin Random House (302) Bezig met laden...
Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Very fun book about a guy's experience as a bike messenger. Very cool. ( ) This is an amazing read. Culley doesn't just tell us what it's like being a bike messenger and its attendant dangers and pain, although he does do that. But, he writes lyrically and passionately about his Umwelt, the personal space surrounding him: art, architecture, justice, city planning, the politics of creating a culture, the psychology, sociology, and anthropology of the clashing cultures of car vs. bike riders. It opened a whole new world for me, a way of looking at street I had never done before. The nearest thing to this that I have ever read is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, but this is not that. It seems to me to be sui generis, although the website I bought this on did list other books by bike messengers. I hesitate to buy one, however, for fear it couldn't match this. If you want to be a bike messenger and have romanticized the work or the lifestyle, read this book. Bike messengers' lives are pretty bad. They have to ride every day in any weather, they get hurt often and don't have good health insurance, they don't get paid well, the culture includes much self-destructive behavior like smoking and drinking. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Travis Hugh Culley came to Chicago to work and live as an artist. He knew he'd have to struggle, but he found that his struggle meant more than hard work and a taste for poverty. In becoming a bike messenger, he found a sense of community and fulfillment and a brotherhood of like-minded individualists. He rode like a postmodern cowboy across the city's landscape; he passed like a shadow through its soaring office towers; he soared like a falcon through the roaring chaos of the multilayered streets of Chicago. He became an invisible man in society, yet at the same time its most intimate observer. In one of the most dangerous jobs on dry land, he found freedom. In The Immortal Class, Culley takes us in-side the heart and soul of an urban icon the bicycle messenger. In describing his own history and those of his peers, he evokes a classic American maverick, deeply woven into the fabric of society from the pits of squalor to the highest reaches of power and privilege yet always resolutely, exuberantly outside. And he celebrates a culture that eschews the motorized vehicle: the cult of human power. The Immortal Class, Culley's vivid evocation of a bicycle messenger's experience and philosophy, sheds a compelling light on the way human beings relate to one another and to the cities we inhabit. Travis Hugh Culley's voice is at once earthy and soaringly poetic a Gen-X Tom Joad at hyperspeed. The Immortal Class is a unique personal and political narrative of a cyclist's life on the street. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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