Jim Fulner reviewed US guys by Charlie LeDuff
3 stars
I am glad I read LeDuff's "Detroit" before I read "US Guys." For if I read this first I may have never read the other. returnreturnBased on the description I had expected some hardcore manliness, some real MRM stuff. But there was none of that. returnreturnThere was little actually tying the book together at all. Each chapter was a story of its own of LeDuff traveling to a different part of the country to take part in some form of everyday life there. returnreturnThe first couple chapters dealing with Oklahoma really shouldn't have been first. Hanging out with meth addicts in a flea bag motel is not a way to get me to want to keep turning the page. returnreturnThat being said the chapter on Burning Man in Black Rock City, NV was absolutely amazing, I also really like the chapter on the Pentecostal movement in Cleveland, TN, and playing …
I am glad I read LeDuff's "Detroit" before I read "US Guys." For if I read this first I may have never read the other. returnreturnBased on the description I had expected some hardcore manliness, some real MRM stuff. But there was none of that. returnreturnThere was little actually tying the book together at all. Each chapter was a story of its own of LeDuff traveling to a different part of the country to take part in some form of everyday life there. returnreturnThe first couple chapters dealing with Oklahoma really shouldn't have been first. Hanging out with meth addicts in a flea bag motel is not a way to get me to want to keep turning the page. returnreturnThat being said the chapter on Burning Man in Black Rock City, NV was absolutely amazing, I also really like the chapter on the Pentecostal movement in Cleveland, TN, and playing in the AF2 in Amarillo, TX