Evasion

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Summary: Wow
Review: A travelling, dumpster diving, shoplifting, sXe,plain looking, Vegan writer & hindu saint and it's not me? Damn, I must be dreaming!

Actually, there are a lot of dissimilarities between me and the Evasion kid, but any similarity between us is hardly the point. Mack can write, and he's using his writing to showcase the life he's living, a slightly more selfish version of failed 19th century trancendentalism.

He has an ego on him, for sure, but the arrogant tone only helps the narrative flow. He's surviving and having fun doing it.

This book is inspiring. Buy it, sucka.

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Summary: great stuff
Review: I picked up this book because I thought it would be interesting to read about someone whose lifestyle is 180 degrees different from mine. Though it is pretty fascinating, the writers are kinda reverse-classist and basically see themselves as God. This book won't teach you how to live the free life but it will open your eyes a little.

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Summary: Avoid this garbage
Review: I read another book published by this company, and that was great. However, this book is terrible. Honestly, the worst book I've ever read. I actually had to stop reading it halfway through, something I VERY rarely do. The author is a complete moron. There is nothing revolutionary about this book or the author.

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Summary: Life is what you do for a living... not work.
Review: If you get this book, you WILL read it, and you WILL think about leaving your job, and whole life behind at least one time... for about a week or so. When you walk down the sidewalk and you see some begging homeless punk kid, and think, "I wonder if that's him" and then the college kid behind you drops some change into his cup... you feel bad, he has much less money than you and he just gave what might be the author of the book you're reading money! Actually the author is the average looking college looking kid, and he is the one living off dumpsters, not that kid in rags for clothes. How does this work? America throws out alot of good stuff, why not use it for something other than land fill? Read the book, think about it, then make friends with him... I did, and by the way his name is Mack. There is no way you will not love this book, or the author.

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Summary: entertaining
Review: Ok, so some could argue that this persons lifestyle is not essentially "revolutionary" but is more so then sitting around and criticizing it. It is however monkeywrenching what is happening, and on top of that the life in itself is revolutionary because it is full of passion, which is all but gone in our sterile culture. Plus some of these stories are hilarious and beautiful, i found it very easy to follow, if you can think more than one thought . Loved it, what can i say,

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Summary: Everyone should read this book
Review: This book has changed my life. It has made me open my eyes to the real world and undertsand that you do NOT have to pay for everything that you want, or need. This world that we live in is very giving, and they do not even know it. Evasion shows us this with his great zine like novel. Please, please read this book, it WILL change your life.

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Summary: Amazing!...
Review: This book is fantastic. It was hard for me to put it down. I serioulsly read it in about 48 hours. One of the best books yet. About a straight-edge vegan, who travels across the U.S. by jumping trains, hitch hiking, and ocassionaly riding a bus. He lives off the dumpster and stealing. Any where that this author can sleep he will. He sleeps on top of stores, in abandend cars, and once in a great moon is peoples houses. Another great book by Crimethinc.

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Summary: Even Anarchists need some structure
Review: This is a book that basically lists the reason adults in america hate teenagers. Evasion is the tale of a kid to stubborn to ignore is own truths and go with a trendy rebellion that in the long run seems to make no sense at all. I wouldn't know what happens in the long run because I could NOT seems to finish this book even after I promised myself not to do so. The book is a good 300 pages of the same story over and over. Kid gets hungry, kid gets poor, kid steals food, return to start.
A particular part of this book made me mentally sore when the main character discovers his favorite brand of juice is made in a factory and feels betrayed. I just kind of put the book down and walked around by myself for a while after that.
Aside from its blatanly unintelligent parts there is also the manner of glorifying poverty that is brought up again and again. A kid has a great house and a family to take care of him and he chooses to live on the streets where people would give a limb to live like he once had it.
All in all, everyhting I can say about this book can be summed up in one statement. There's a reason the author chose go go anonymus for this one.

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Summary: Avoid this garbage
Review: Well, first off, there are some really good stories in here, which definitly is a plus. But however, the author definitly has a large ego, and can get a bit overboard at times. But either way, I would definitly recommend reading this book, although its more the type that you should borrow from a friend than buy.

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Summary: Mental Chains
Review: While the author shook off the chains the wage-slavery society, he is much less proficent in shaking off the chains of the ideas he has about himself. The author seems to suffer from a cult of his own personality, which makes the book less about freedom and more about him defining himself. I am sorry to say that this is not "revolutionary", but quite ordinary. Having travelled and lived in India, I have seen true renounciates...of both body and mind. One star is in recognition of the courage required to live that way, and the second is in recognition that in order to live that way in a society such as ours, maybe a strong self-image/arrogance is needed. WHAT A PROFOUND MEASAGE IT WOULD BE IF IT WASN'T!