Helpful Score: 2
No hope, meaning, faith or desire to keep living. One year after the first tragedy, Neil was choosing between life and his own death. Finally, all he could decide on was motion. He got on his BMW R1100GS motorcycle, and over the next fourteen months, rode 55,000 miles, in search of a reason to live. On a journey of escape, exile and exploration, he traveled from Quebec to Alaska, down the Canadian and American coasts and western regions, to Mexico and Belize, and finally back to Quebec. While riding "the healing road", Neil recorded in his journals his progresses and setbacks in the grieving/healing process, and the pain of constantly reliving his losses.
He also recorded with dazzling, colorful, entertaining and moving artistry, the enormous range of his travel adventures, from the mountains to the sea, from the deserts to the Arctic tundra, and the dozens of memorable people, characters, friends and relatives he met along the way, and who increasingly contributed to his healing and sense of meaning and purpose. He begins the journey with nothing, "the Ghost Rider." What he finally attains is joy, love, and indelible memories of the most extrordinary journey of his life.
Ghost Rider is a bold, brilliantly written, intense, exciting, and ultimately triumphant narrative memoir from a gifted writer and musician, who started out as a man reduced to trying to stay alive by staying on the move.
Neil Peart is the drummer and lyricist for the legendary rocks band RUSH, and is the author of The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa. With his bandmates, he is a recipient of the Order of Canada.
He also recorded with dazzling, colorful, entertaining and moving artistry, the enormous range of his travel adventures, from the mountains to the sea, from the deserts to the Arctic tundra, and the dozens of memorable people, characters, friends and relatives he met along the way, and who increasingly contributed to his healing and sense of meaning and purpose. He begins the journey with nothing, "the Ghost Rider." What he finally attains is joy, love, and indelible memories of the most extrordinary journey of his life.
Ghost Rider is a bold, brilliantly written, intense, exciting, and ultimately triumphant narrative memoir from a gifted writer and musician, who started out as a man reduced to trying to stay alive by staying on the move.
Neil Peart is the drummer and lyricist for the legendary rocks band RUSH, and is the author of The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa. With his bandmates, he is a recipient of the Order of Canada.
Helpful Score: 1
Good story with meaning. Well written by Neil Peart, drummer for band RUSH. Story of his coping with the loss of his 19 yr old daughter in a car accident and then his wife from cancer. He put 50k on his BMW just traveling till his mind could handle the losses.
