ROASTBEEF'S PROMISE by David Jerome was read for the What's in a Name 3 Challenge (food).From the book jacket:
When Jim "Roastbeef" Hume embarks on a quest to sprinkle his father's ashes in each of the forty-eight contiguous states, he has no idea that a series of bizarre and ridiculous adventures await. But nothing will deter him from fulfilling the promise he made to his dying father - not a brief incarceration in Iowa or a punctured lung in South Dakota.
As he travels across the country, he picks up numerous new friends, presides over the ultimate frat party, poses as a lesbian's boyfriend, and gives away a very pregnant bride in a Las Vegas wedding. And who could have dreamed that somewhere amidst the craziness of dropping ashes from a crop duster and finding Elvis's toenail, Roastbeef would stumble upon a lucrative career?
Join Roastbeef as he drives, bikes, hitchhikes, rides the rails, and mo-peds his way around the country. This is one warm and funny road-trip you don't want to miss.
This book has been sitting on my bookshelf for quite a while. In fact, I can't remember from where it came. Sent by the author or publisher perhaps? If so, I want to give a big thank you!
I loved this book. Roastbeef started his trip in his old Hyundai, which soon met up with an elk and died a glorious death (the car, not the elk). But Roastbeef was not stopped - he continued his trek finding transportation wherever he could. He met a lot of interesting people along the way, made some money, lost most of it, but he carried out his father's last wish.
He met a man named Harlin in South Carolina who kept a notebook full of his thoughts and observations on life. One quote from that notebook "stuck" in his head: "Life is like a buffet dinner. You can have whatever you want, but you have to get off your ass to get it." So true.
Mr. Jerome is writing a sequel to this book entitled ROASTBEEF SPRINKLES. I can't wait to read it. It's going to be a very important book - Mr. Jerome posted the following on his Facebook page:
Good News Roastbeef Lovers! I've only completed 12 pages of the sequel, but I was just notified by the Nobel officials that "Roastbeef Sprinkles" has been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature!
7 comments:
I read this last year. I had to go look up my Goodreads acct to see what I thought, lol. 4/5 stars. I do remember liking it very much. Glad you did too! Didn't know a sequel was in the works. LOL the Nobel prize :D
That book sounds like so much fun! I wonder if the author is from South Carolina.
Sounds like my kind of book. How can someone get a Nobel prize for something not yet published???
Oh this sounds good! I love this kind of book. What fun. And I love the title.
Lynne, sounds like a great book! I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the review!
Thanks for the review. It will go on my wish list as well as the sequel.
Sounds great! I hadn't heard of it at all, so thanks for the review, it's going on the TBR list!
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