Blue Highways

Reading Blue Highways to me was at first very boring.  It caught my attention at the beginning to read that this man was leaving to start a new beginning, to travel across the states.  Then, I began to get bored with the story line.  He just seemed to go from place to place with high detail of each place.  Eventually, with every place, he met new people, letting the reader know what goes on in each city.  Some of the anecdotes I found to be pretty boring, however, some caught my attention.  As I was going through the book, it became more interesting.  

I enjoyed reading about his travels through Kentucky, as I am from there.  However, there was not a lot mentioned about Lexington (where am I from), and there was more about the surrounding areas of which i was not very familiar with.  However, I have heard about them but I hadn't known much about them.

I hope that the book turns into more of a story line with the man.  I realize that his traveling is the story line, but it appears to me that one of the primary focuses of the novel is the anecdote of the people. Although it is interesting to learn about the many different places, I found it more interesting to learn about the different places through a story line like from the novel "Northern Lights".  

I have no idea of where and how this story will end up.  It is pretty different from what I am used to reading.  It has a story line that seems to change a lot.  One part of the book that I did find pretty interesting is when the author says : "I wondered why it's always those who live on little who are the ones who ask you to dinner".  The people that he found that didn't have a lot were very friendly and offered to have him for dinner and welcomed him in their homes.  I also found it interesting that since he was traveling alone, it made him want to become more social when he met people.  It didn't make sense to me before but when I read the part when he was talking to the waitress, it made more sense.