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At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream: Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life

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At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream: Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life

By: Wade Rouse  

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5

Description:
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 radically reduced conditions."

In this rollicking and hilarious memoir, Wade and his partner, Gary, leave culture, cable, and consumerism behind and strike out for rural Michigan–a place with fewer people than in their former spinning class. There, Wade discovers the simple life isn’t so simple. Battling blizzards, bloodthirsty critters, and nosy neighbors equipped with night-vision goggles, Wade and his spirit, sanity, relationship, and Kenneth Cole pointy-toed boots are sorely tested with humorous and humiliating frequency. And though he never does learn where his well water actually comes from or how to survive without Kashi cereal, he does discover some things in the woods outside his knotty-pine cottage in Saugatuck, Michigan, that he always dreamed of but never imagined he’d find–happiness and a home.

At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream is a sidesplitting and heartwarming look at taking a risk, fulfilling a dream, and finding a home–with very thick and very dark curtains.


Publisher: Crown

Release Date: 2009-06-02

Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Take the "Gay" of the City - Loved it. Read for its lightness and frivolity. Taken tongue in check makes it enjoyable. I would guess he has taken liberties on some of his escapades, but that is how a book gets written.

Customer Review: 1 out of 5
Terribly cliched - This is no Beekman Boys. The author's vanity and affected urban snobbery made me wince. The fish-out-of-water story was terribly cliched and distracting from any real parallel to Thoreau's Walden Pond. There were no meaningful insights into moving to rural America as a gay man and the author failed to make an impression on his country neighbors. Vapid, boring and a nasty stereotype of the gay man as a silly queen.

Customer Review: 1 out of 5
A cliched miserable tale - I have to admit I read less than half of the book. Being a gay male myself I thought I would be able to relate to the author on some level. Unfortunately I found him to be an irritating queen who was less than entertaining. I also found his constant references to his former narcissistic life of consumption in the big city (where Detroit?) extremely off putting and trite.
I read his early memoir of his childhood and was very moved by his struggles and emotions then. Compared to his earlier work this felt like play acting.

Very disappointing.

Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Laugh out loud - It is a rare author that can make me laugh out loud. And not just once, but throughout the book! Wade Rouse has a delightful sense of humor and is an incredibly gifted writer. I am now anxious to visit Michigan thanks to this book.

Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Great Book would recommend to ALL. Two thumbs up~!!!!!!!! - Great Book. Couldn't put it down becuase I was laughing so hard and wanted to see what would happen next. Would recommend to ALL

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