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An Experience Definitely Worth Allegedly Having: Travel Stories from The Hairpin

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The keeping up with a serial thing, not reading the Hairpin that one is debatable. It did totally make miss a Hairpin led by Zimmerman, though. I think I only read, like, the first one back then? But years later, it makes for pretty go So, I actually subscribed to this back when it was first coming out, because I wanted to see what the Kindle Serials program was like and how it would be to read things as they came out on it and I was a big Hairpin fan.

But years later, it makes for pretty good bus reading.

An Experience Definitely Worth Allegedly Having: Travel Stories from The Hairpin by Edith Zimmerman

It's probably stronger than your average collection, just because it's well-curated there are only eight essays here and the over-all quality is better than I usually see in things like this. Jul 27, Ann Addley rated it it was amazing Shelves: I loved this book. As someone who has traveled extensively this collection of stories captures something that is often missing in popular travel books.

A sort of philosophical narcissism that dominates ones personal dialog when you are young and traveling for the purposes of self discovery. I suppose that doesn't sound particularly appealing but I think lots of people would enjoy this book particularly those who have done their own travel but the slice of life, eclectic adventures covered in thi I loved this book. I suppose that doesn't sound particularly appealing but I think lots of people would enjoy this book particularly those who have done their own travel but the slice of life, eclectic adventures covered in this book would also inspire many a new traveler.

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There were moments but the best way I can describe why I didn't enjoy it overall as a collection is it felt very old. It's a bit ridiculous in that we're not dealing with the past is another country territory - at the furthest it's the 80s and these are universal experiences which aren't affected by time Feb 10, Alison rated it liked it Shelves: This was a fun, light read. I enjoyed the essays, which as you can guess from the title focus on the writers' travels. Most of them wrote an essay about one particular trip, but there was one where someone threw together lots of prose snapshots of various trips.

Anyway apparently I do not have much to say about this but if you like reading travel stories, and you like the tone of The Hairpin, I'd say to grab this form Amazon it was a Kindle Serial. Most good, some not so good stories All of the stories were entertaining, I enjoyed being exposed to writers new to me and comparing the different writing styles.

Some I clicked with, others not so much. Oddly the only story I didn't like was the last one and that turned out to be written by the editor!

An Experience Definitely Worth Allegedly Having: Travel Stories from The Hairpin

A new concept on my reading shelf,Kindle serials. They give you a few installments to start with and as the writer completes the next installment they automatically load it on your Kindle every two weeks or so at no additional charge. The initial cost is minimal so you really can't lose if the story sucks.

This particular serial is actually interesting because I travel very little myself and I like to see what the travelers find memorable about their journeys. Aug 23, Sorcered rated it it was ok. Rich American kids all with humongous first world problems: P try to demonstrate why travelling is a worthwhile occupation. Light read, nothing to learn from here unless you were born in a remote Himalayan village and remained there all your life.

Move on, read something else already. Oct 09, Jana rated it really liked it Shelves: Unsurprisingly, I really liked this collection of short non-fiction travel stories. This was also my first Kindle Serial experience and I really liked having a new story to look forward to every other week. Dec 26, Beckie rated it liked it Shelves: Meandery, memoirish essays about travel that are mainly about not-entirely-positive experiences, but they still made me wish I'd backpacked more. Oct 22, amanda rated it it was amazing. This collection is fascinating and really great.

Sep 29, Kelly rated it liked it. I love travel writing, and some of these stories are great. Aug 21, Kim rated it really liked it. A good read--and I enjoyed the serial nature of delivery. Some poignant stories and I was reminded why I love traveling so much. Dec 31, Liz rated it really liked it Shelves: What, you're not going to read a collection of essays by Hairpin writers about travel adventures?

Even the crap ones are pretty good. Aug 26, Megan rated it liked it. I read this as a break after GoT 1 and it made me nostalgic for my own travel experiences, in the best way possible. Dec 29, Ann Fisher rated it really liked it. Fans of The Hairpin will enjoy these stories. It's the first Kindle book I've bought that automatically upgrades, and I admit it feels like a gift each time I sync and find another chapter added.

They were dealing with depression, a feeling of being lost and unloved, uncertain about what they wanted in life. It may be normal to feel this way sometimes in your younger years, but this read like the depression and confusion was an all-encompassing thing. There is so much sadness in this book. More than once, I thought " I was interested in this book because the essays promised to be "funny, weird, adventurous, and moving. More than once, I thought "You know, you can travel and not get drunk everyday.

Why would I, or anyone, want to read about how grumpy a person gets when he travels? There is little humor, and while there are some good tidbits thrown throughout these essays, you have to look hard and it's not enough to like the book overall. Some of these stories were good. I especially enjoyed the one about Paris. Some of these stories were less good.

I did not understand the purpose of the last one, which seemed more like a collection of ideas that led nowhere. I enjoyed that there was a good variety here, but overall I was not very impressed.

Jul 09, -r- rated it really liked it. A collection of fun essays. So, I actually subscribed to this back when it was first coming out, because I wanted to see what the Kindle Serials program was like and how it would be to read things as they came out on it and I was a big Hairpin fan. That totally didn't work out, huh? The keeping up with a serial thing, not reading the Hairpin that one is debatable.

It did totally make miss a Hairpin led by Zimmerman, though. I think I only read, like, the first one back then? But years later, it makes for pretty go So, I actually subscribed to this back when it was first coming out, because I wanted to see what the Kindle Serials program was like and how it would be to read things as they came out on it and I was a big Hairpin fan. But years later, it makes for pretty good bus reading. It's probably stronger than your average collection, just because it's well-curated there are only eight essays here and the over-all quality is better than I usually see in things like this.

Jul 27, Ann Addley rated it it was amazing Shelves: I loved this book. As someone who has traveled extensively this collection of stories captures something that is often missing in popular travel books. A sort of philosophical narcissism that dominates ones personal dialog when you are young and traveling for the purposes of self discovery.

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I suppose that doesn't sound particularly appealing but I think lots of people would enjoy this book particularly those who have done their own travel but the slice of life, eclectic adventures covered in thi I loved this book. I suppose that doesn't sound particularly appealing but I think lots of people would enjoy this book particularly those who have done their own travel but the slice of life, eclectic adventures covered in this book would also inspire many a new traveler.

Sep 27, Tara rated it liked it. Travel essays that were just okay. I was hoping for a bit more, I like travel essays and with the 'Pin I thought it would be a collection I would find a lot to identify with being an expat. There were moments but the best way I can describe why I didn't enjoy it overall as a collection is it felt very old. It's a bit ridiculous in that we're not dealing with the past is another country territory - at the furthest it's the 80s and these are universal experiences which aren't affected by time Feb 10, Alison rated it liked it Shelves: This was a fun, light read.

I enjoyed the essays, which as you can guess from the title focus on the writers' travels.

Most of them wrote an essay about one particular trip, but there was one where someone threw together lots of prose snapshots of various trips. Anyway apparently I do not have much to say about this but if you like reading travel stories, and you like the tone of The Hairpin, I'd say to grab this form Amazon it was a Kindle Serial.

Most good, some not so good stories All of the stories were entertaining, I enjoyed being exposed to writers new to me and comparing the different writing styles. Some I clicked with, others not so much. Oddly the only story I didn't like was the last one and that turned out to be written by the editor! A new concept on my reading shelf,Kindle serials. They give you a few installments to start with and as the writer completes the next installment they automatically load it on your Kindle every two weeks or so at no additional charge. The initial cost is minimal so you really can't lose if the story sucks.

Light read, nothing to learn from here unless you were born in a remote Himalayan village and remained there all your life. Move on, read something else already. Oct 09, Jana rated it really liked it Shelves: Unsurprisingly, I really liked this collection of short non-fiction travel stories. This was also my first Kindle Serial experience and I really liked having a new story to look forward to every other week. Dec 26, Beckie rated it liked it Shelves: