By David Gordon. self-published, 2017.
Well worth reading if extremely frustrating at times.
The author tells us his autobiography with particular emphasis on the time he spent as a young man in the late sixties and early seventies hitchhiking where he needed to go. Along the way, Gordon encountered the interesting, the dangerous, the weird, and the ordinary.
One very obvious thing is how being sent away to a school for the blind for fourteen years affects someone psychologically and, quite honestly, these effects are apparent in Gordon's demeanour, not in just his actions. This is what makes the book frustrating to read.
Still, I got some big laughs out of "Hitchhiking" and was in awe at how much Gordon was allowed to do and experience in a time when people were generally less uptight in some ways in which they certainly are today or even were when I was growing up in the eighties and nineties.
Purchase it here.
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