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Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America

John Waters

Hardcover | Pages: 323 pages

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Original Title:	Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America
ISBN:	0374298637 (ISBN13: 9780374298630)
Edition Language:	English URL http://us.macmillan.com/carsick/JohnWaters
Literary Awards:	Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album (2015)

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John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads "I’m Not Psycho," he hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving lonely roads and treacherous drivers. But who should we be more worried about, the delicate film director with genteel manners or the unsuspecting travelers transporting the Pope of Trash?

Before he leaves for this bizarre adventure, Waters fantasizes about the best and worst possible scenarios: a friendly drug dealer hands over piles of cash to finance films with no questions asked, a demolition-derby driver makes a filthy sexual request in the middle of a race, a gun-toting drunk terrorizes and holds him hostage, and a Kansas vice squad entraps and throws him in jail. So what really happens when this cult legend sticks out his thumb and faces the open road?

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Title	:	Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America
Author	:	John Waters
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 323 pages
Published	:	June 3rd 2014 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (first published 2014)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Humor. Travel. Autobiography. Memoir. Audiobook

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In fairness to John Waters, I found it impossible to finish this book, so it's probably not entirely ok for me to rate it. However, in fairness to potential readers, I feel it's my duty to inform them that if they don't plan on dropping acid before reading this book their chances of actually enjoying it are less than 50%.I got about a quarter of the way through it - and I had to force myself - and finally just decided to skip to part 2. I spent a little time trudging that section and realized

2.5 starsIt's not like I'm a rabid John Waters fan. I really admire the bizarro ideas rattling through the guy's mind more than I appreciate any of his finished products. Any self-respecting cineaste can't go without at least sampling a few of Waters' oddities. (A few of them successful: "Hairspray" and "Serial Mom" are my fave movies of his. A great many more just fall in the quirky-dumb to quirky ick-car-wreck continuum, like "Female Trouble", "Polyester" {with Odorama scratch-n-sniff

Well, it's John Waters, and he's my Lord and Savior. (Seriously, my FB profile says John Waters under religion and FILTH with Divine's speech from PINK FLAMINGOS under politics.)I bought the hardcover version as a 37th birthday present to myself. I also have the ebook and audio book versions. I really, really super like the latter, because John Waters narrates it. I enjoy hearing him say "asshole".I keep seeing reviews where people complain about the first two thirds of the book being fiction.



When I was still an adolescent, I was given a copy of the Movies Unlimited catalog, a thick, small-fonted, glossy-paged piece of junk mail that left me instantly captivated. It seemed as though every movie that had ever been made was available for order from its pages, thousands upon thousands of DVDs and VHS tapes, all arranged haphazardly in a layout that now seems almost anarchic. But I loved movies, even at that age, and I pored over every colored column or shaded insert, beginning with the

I first heard of Carsick when John Waters was on Real Time with Bill Maher, plugging his new book. Full disclosure: I've never seen any of his movies (in fact, I think I've only ever seen him on Real Time), but the idea of this older, eccentric man hitchhiking across the US and writing about it sounded fan-effing-tastic.And, while it wasn't fan-effing-tastic, it was fun. I am glad I read reviews before diving in ... it prepared me for the fact that the actual hitchhiking portion was only the

The contours of memoir and fiction continue to overlap. It is sad to see how Waters has allowed himself to become watered down in his old age, all for the sake of being bi-coastal. I pretty much stopped giving a shit about what John Waters had to say after hearing him defend the party line on 9/11. He's become the quintessential example of how the establishment co-ops the counterculture, all for the sake of commerce.This book would have been a lot more exciting with less obscure film allusions