A review by admacg
The Way Home: Tales from a Life Without Technology by Mark Boyle

3.0

The premise of this book is that Mark Boyle has given up electricity and modern living to live in a small cabin somewhere in the west of Ireland. He details how he survives, how he works the land and how he manages to exist without equipment which would certainly make his life easier. There's a lot to admire and of course it made me examine my own life and how dependent I am on modern technology. I got the impression sometimes that Mark would prefer to have been as a stag or a deer, and some of his thoughts on how man has contributed to his own demise were certainly persuasive and depressing. Where the book fell down for me was that I didn't find the writing style engaging enough, there were times when I drifted of. But definitely an interesting book and a fascinating approach to modern living.