Status Updates From On the Road with Bob Dylan

While some of the glimpses of Dylan and Baez are interesting, I’m not reading through 400 pages of this unpleasant author’s writing to get to them. It seems like Sloman thought he was going to have a lot more access to Dylan than he actually did, so the book devolves into a series of whines about being ignored. (Based on this book and what I saw of Sloman in the Rolling Thunder film, I’d avoid him, too.)

Part of me can’t stop reading this, and part of me wants to quit it because the author is so annoying, We’ll see.

Utter garbage, I'm afraid to say - but bonus points are awarded for nice sections on Mike Bloomfield and Joni Mitchell, as well as some interesting details of the wrongfully imprisoned boxer, Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter.

So far the book's ok as a document of Bob's mid 70s folkadelic tour thru small town america. All Bob's pal's are in the band, playing songs from the Desire album and some old classics...but frankly, the book's dull. Boring and yabbering, needy. And the casual use of racial slurs and such like is ridiculous, really off putting - (why not edit for the reissue ffs). But I'm gonna finish it and 113 is my lucky number

To begin this book seems ok as a ringside seat on Bob's mid 70s folkadelic traips through small town America. The narrator drives at the creative energy drawn from chaos and charged by performance. But the writing grates like adolescent whining and the casual use of racial slurs is foul and unforgiving(why not edit for the reissue ffs). So far, not my cuppa tea.

So far the book's ok as a ringside seat to Bob's folkadelic traips round small town America, and the writing drives effectively at the incredible way creativity is drawn from chaos and charged by performance - but I must say the casual use of racial slurs is really off-putting (coulda edited for the reissue ffs).