A Runaway Hit

Born To Run: A Hidden tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen


This book has everything a great story should have; its simply unbelievable but true. Its a story of a lost tribe of runners, ultra-marathoners, drug traffickers, a story of redemption. Its the story of men and women pushing themselves beyond their limits because they know their soul has none. Reading this book lets you into the ultra-human or ultra-crazy mind of the runners; its like your running with them. You will hit the wall of desperation when they do and catch your second breath as they do. You will be inspired to push your own limits. Born to Run is a marathon of soul searching, that concludes with why your born to live. Run free, live free.

You Own The Ground You Walk On ....

Jimmy Santigo Baca is better known for his Poetry, but in his non-fiction book, "A Place to Stand", he invites you experience the life that molded him into a poet. Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom in order to appreciate life.

Jimmy was born into rock bottom, with an alcoholic father who left his family, and a mother who left because she thought she deserved a better one. Jimmy was left to be raised with his grandparents, who would punish him physically and mentally. As soon a he was old enough, he ran away with a girl that intoxicated him more than the drugs he would get addicted to. Which led to jail, where he would see the harsher side of humanity, that at times was animalistic. You will read his experience but not want to believe. You wont believe that a man could come to better himself under such conditions. His talent as a poet comes out in the descriptions and imagery that will make you go read. Truly a great piece of work. That which breaks a man into a jigsaw puzzle and puts him back together again.

Deserving 4 out of 5 garlics.

El Camino Real

The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Read it before the movie comes out. A great way to impress a date is to let them know that you can read. It what separates you from a low wage job. Anyways back to the book.

The books starts with the end of the world, well more the end of civilized society as we know it. What you know at the beginning is that a man and his son survive. What they have do is simply figure out how to stay alive. So they hit the road, pardon the bad pun, and begin a journey. Interesting questions arise from the book: Is there a God? What is right or wrong when your trying to stay alive? Who can you really trust? Can you even trust yourself? But the most important question is what is humanity? McCarthy makes an attempt to answer them as simply as possible. What you have to figure out while reading the book is, whether the road leads to new beginnings or toward the end. A great summer book.

It gets 4 out 5 garlics .