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At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream: Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life
At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life
Author: Wade Rouse
We all dream it. — Wade Rouse actually did it. — Finally fed up with the frenzy of city life and a job he hates, Wade Rouse decided to make either the bravest decision of his life or the worst mistake since his botched Ogilvie home perm: to uproot his life and try, as Thoreau did some 160 years earlier, to "live a plain, simple life in rad...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780307451910
ISBN-10: 0307451917
Publication Date: 6/1/2010
Pages: 320
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2.9 stars, based on 8 ratings
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 3
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Think Sedaris but in a self-reflective I want to have a better life/be a better person kind of way. And with Burt's Bees lip shimmer...
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jazzysmom avatar reviewed At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream: Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life on + 907 more book reviews
What a fun book. I laughed for a week just reliving in my mind some of the experiences Mr. Rouse went through trying to adjust to country living. He and his partner were so out of their element and unprepared for moving to their little well selected private wooded area out of reach of a Guchi and Starbuck's. They were looking for a calmer easier life. Little did they know.
This story is far from boring, full of "what the heck could possibly happen next to this poor guy", and just plain laugh out loud funny. I loved it.
reviewed At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream: Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life on + 7 more book reviews
Laugh out loud funny! It wasn't a 'can't put it down' book, but I read it quickly and really enjoyed it.


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