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Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim's Route into Spain by Jack Hitt

justahussyfromakron's review

4.0

Good mix of travel writing, humor, and history. He has an obsession with visiting all the gothic churches around the way and looking for the crude and hilarious evidence of medieval pilgrims and their often less than holy day to day life [b:on the road|6288|The Road|Cormac McCarthy|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21E8H3D1JSL._SL75_.jpg|3355573].

lutheranjulia's review

5.0

While this is a book about a walk in Europe, it is an inimitably Southern book in style. The book drawls, but has many ups and downs on its way to the end, which isn't entirely an end, but just a pause where the teller stopped talking. Jack Hitt's voice, if you know him from later writings or radio work, isn't as fully developed here as it will be just 5-6 years after the book was published, but you can hear what will be. Some of the "information" portions go on a little long here, making the reader wish to be back on the road. Yet those portions that are less enjoyable fold into the whole pilgrimage of reading this book. I will be returning to this again and again.