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The Hobo Diet: Eat Less, Walk More, and Try Not to Die | 
 enlarge | Author: Logan Mosier
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1457799
Media: Paperback
Pages: 264
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 1434396150
Dewey Decimal Number: 817
EAN: 9781434396150
ASIN: 1434396150
Publication Date: August 6, 2008
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Product Description
After graduating from college, I decided tospend five weeks living as a homeless man in Sin City.So on New Year's Eve, I boarded anairplane and flew to Vegas to be homeless (and, yes, I noted theirony). All I had on me was a backpack with one change of clothes,a cheap blanket, and some pens and notepads. The first person I saw as a "homeless man" was a cop.Actually, there were three of them , and they quickly pointed out thatI was on the street and that I needed to hop the long fence borderingthe casinos to get out of traffic. In the process of doing so, Iunwittingly cut my hand open on the fence and was immediatelysurrounded by police and paramedics. Two ambulance rides and twelvestitches later, I found myself outside a hospital miles away from "TheStrip" with no money, no insurance, and no identity. Over the next five weeks I slept in shelters and in druginfested lots, worked day labor jobs for minimum wage only to lose themoney at the casinos, and met an array of interesting individualsranging from Tiger Todd, motivational speaker to the homeless, toBlack, a very high and horny gangster with a gray glass eye and aseemingly endless supply of cocaine. That said, the overwhelmingmajority of people I met living in the shelters and on the streets werecompassionate, interesting, often inspirational individuals. Check out The Hobo Diet: Eat Less Walk More, and Try Not to Die. It's like reading a firsthand account of homelessness if it were produced by Vh1, only with a lot less lists and a lot more drugs.
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Ona Lee's Review September 11, 2008
Snorkelling Fan (Eugene, OR USA)
Do you have a stereotypical view of what homeless people are like? What in the world would it be like if you were homeless? What kind of challenges would you face? Would you still need to have I.D.? Logan,
after graduating from college, must have asked himself many of these same
questions and more. He deliberately choose to experience first-hand what this aspect of human existence is like, meet other homeless individuals, and then journal and write about it all. He documents his time with wit, satire, warmth, and understanding as we see through the eyes of a hobo in Las Vegas. If you're curious, like I was, be sure and read his book.
Excellent book! September 9, 2008
Derek J. Fulcher
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book about an outsider's view of our nation's homelessness epidemic. It's full of brilliant insights and humor that make it a great read. I would highly recommend it!
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