Roadshow: Landscape With Drums: A Concert Tour by Motorcycle by Neil Peart Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Roadshow: Landscape With Drums: A Concert Tour by Motorcycle
Book Review: Peart's best book to date
Summary: 5 Stars
Roadshow is the most entertaining book from Neil Peart so far. Will especially be enjoyed most by Rush fans. A very cool, and very well-written account of life on the road.Book Review: interestingly poignant
Summary: 5 Stars
I found Neil Peart to be insightful and interesting regarding the landscape of an American back-drop; the idiosyncracies in the ways we drive, and our literal landscape are told with such insight that I couldn't help but laugh at my own memories of some of those roads and places. He really hit it right on, and being from Canada I felt really aided him in his objectivity as opposed to having some warped sense of patriotism. And yet he clearly is loving this country and has made it his home, but no place is without its faults, and its own sense of idealism and beauty.Book Review: No-Show
Summary: 2 Stars
Neil is a rather pedantic author, and I get the feeling that he really does not care all that much for America or Americans in general. The book is disappointing in a few ways. It's rather slow, and as far as content goes it lacks any real insight. There is no point to it. It is not even a good travel journal as far as I was concerned. I'll give it to a rabid Rush fan who might be able to overlook its shortcomings.Book Review: Peart - what else can you say?
Summary: 4 Stars
Not only is Peart an incredible drummer he is a very articulate writer. This book is interesting and quite funny, just makes you want to keep reading.Book Review: Rush Fans: Motorcyclists: A Book to Appeal to the Intersection of These Submarkets
Summary: 4 Stars
The book does not recount any real adventures - unless losing a saddlebag or a bike tow counts; it provides little insight into Rush - still don't know how the collaboration between Mr. Peart's lyric-writing and Lee and Lifeson's music composition results in the final product; and the 'on-the-road' philosophy can be glib at times - "adventures are not fun when you're having them," but somehow, this unpretensious book about nothing is a very engaging, page-turning experience. I enjoyed it quite a lot, as I did the previous "Ghost Rider" (which was much more about travel and personal experiences, naturally, than this).
What comes across most of all is that Peart is the antithesis of the rock-star. He is an insightful, studious, literary, and complicated gentleman who happens to play the drums and make his unlikely living in the music business.
This book would probably appeal more to motorcyclists than Rush afficionados (I happen to be both), due largely to the aforementioned lack of detail concerning the band (although it does give a good account of the touring aspects of the group), but will probably be read by more of the latter, as there are more Rush fans than motorcyclists. If I didn't ride, I should think I would have enjoyed the book less. If I didn't like the band Rush and didn't ride, the book would never have crossed my Radar screen: which does lead to the conclusion that this is, at the end of the day, a novelty book for Rush fans (and motorcycling Rush fans, in particular).
So if you are reading this review, you are certainly in the target audience and should probably give this book a try.
One constructive comment to Mr. Peart: shorter chapters, please! I ended up reading it faster because there are few good places to pause.