Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road
Selected Book Details
- Paperback
- Edition: illustrated edition
- Author: Neil Peart
- Publisher: Ecw Press
- Release Date: September 2002
- ISBN-10: 1550225480
- ISBN-13: 9781550225488
- List Price: $19.95
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryIn less than a year, Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, and his wife, Jackie. Faced with overwhelming sadness and isolated from the world in his home on the lake, Peart was left without direction. This memoir tells of the sense of loss and directionlessness that led him on a 55,000-mile journey by motorcycle across much of North America, down through Mexico to Belize, and back again. He had needed to get away, but had not really needed a destination. His travel adventures chronicle his personal odyssey and include stories of reuniting with friends and family, grieving, thinking, and reminiscing as he rode until he encountered the miracle that allowed him to find peace. |
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Prove it to yourself - it's a bomb!
Rating:
Read the first few pages of the excerpt, then read some of the review.
Now compare the sentence structure and grammar of the two. It becomes apparent pretty quickly that this "genius" can't even keep up with his audience.
Ghost Rider: Travels On The Healing Road
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Utterly Fantastic! I realize this book was written some years ago and under less than desirable circumstances. For myself however, it was completely new. Mr. Peart brought forth a character that at times is within us all. We have all been there. Perhaps not to this magnatude, but it is difficult to escape loss. This book has rekindled my interest in his lyrical writing, for which I am older and wiser and more appreciative of there content. You will not enjoy the book. It's not like that. You will love how it was written, stop only when the last page passes left. Thanks you Mr. Peart.
Darryl
here's how bad this book is
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About 6 months ago I was reading this book, about halfway through. Right about that time I was moving, and the movers were packing up everything in my house to put in the shipping van.
As they were about to seal up the last box, they asked if there was anything else. I took one glance at this book, then tossed it in the box, knowing that I wouldn't see it again for several weeks. In fact, I've never finished it.
Yes, that's how bad it is. Not only did I put it down unfinished, I actually shipped it overseas mid-read.
Despite having long been a huge fan of Peart's lyrics, I found this book to be a waste of time -- though believe me, I so wanted to love it and get to know more about the man and his outlook.
Though Peart is here seemingly writing an intimate memoir, he has in fact produced nothing of the kind.
They say that when you write, you have to break down the barriers between you and your reader, to really put your heart on the page. But Peart never does this, keeping the reader at arm's length throughout the book, or at least throughout the part I read. You never really get to know him.
Peart, as you probably know, was struck with a dual personal tragedy a few years ago, enduring the death of both his wife and daughter, only months apart.
As one way of dealing with the situation, the author hops on his new BMW motorcycle and aimlessly crisscrosses the U.S. and Canada for several months.
Sure, the book is a memoir of that time, but not in any interesting way. I guess everybody deals with tragedy in their own way, but here Peart limits himself to describing what it's like motorcycling through the rain, the various things that went wrong with his BMW, and how unforgivably obese Americans are.
That's about the depth Peart achieves here. It's disappointing.
It's a bit like hearing somebody describe their transgressions in a Catholic confessional: the words are there, but there's still a screen up.
In the end, Peart the man remains opaque to his readers -- possibly, you might say, the way he prefers things. But if so, he has no business writing a book of this nature.
Heart Opening
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Growing up RUSH was one of my favorite bands, still are. But never could you imagine something like this happening to a "famous" person. This book was recomended to me by my cousin after the loss of my son. I didn't know how to put my feelings into words. Shortly after the loss of my son I lost my wife to divorce. Nothing as serious as Neil went through, but his words inspired me to work harder. A heart felt thank you to Neil for exspressing what I couldn't have. Just one bit of advice, buy a Harley-Davidson! LOL
I devoured it, and now I am hungry again
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I once was a huge Rush fan. But then went off to listen to other things, and Rush was on the back burner in an "Oh yeah I remember liking that song" kind of way.
That being said, I always loved NPs beautifully crafted lyrics, and blew through his book about grieving for his family. It's an honest, yet guarded, account of how he grieved and got over his loss. He's obviously uncomfortable in the spotlight, yet needed to talk about this time of his life.
I enjoyed it and am haunted by it after reading it. But now I want to know what happened next.
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