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Great idea for a book/story. Too bad the author didn't have an ending in mind.

Scary, almost cultist approach to something that seems only vaguely related to buddhism. Couldn't finish it for the above reason and the stridently proselytizing tone.

A fun and cheeky scooter travelogue from an Australian driving from Milan to Rome on a Vespa that he bought on eBay.

Started out quite repetitive but redeemed itself in the later chapters by finally applying the overworked basic principle to other fields (police interviewing, politics, etc).

Could have been a good travel/scooter/history piece but suffers from Roskolenko's self-important, academic and, yes, someone tedious delivery. Particularly pompous to slag off all of the Beat poet/authors of 50s San Francisco as no one has heard of him, but everyone knows the artists he deemed hacks.

Some interesting photos, but a bit of a tedious 'look how cool me and my mates were' narrative that really doesn't tell you much about the Mod revival outside of the author's own circles.

An engaging scooter travelogue that I found much more compelling than Poet on a Scooter. Greer does dialog well, which really helps to drive the narrative. Found it fizzled a bit in the end, but overall quite an enjoyable quick read.

Not sure why the Dalai Lama's name is featured so prominently in this book. Perhaps fewer than 50 pages of the book contain material directly from him and the remaining 275 pages are narrative and 'interpretation' from the other author.returnreturnWhile the book covers some interesting and relevant topics, I feel it would have been much more effective in a more concise presentation.