Read Hack: Stories From A Chicago Cab (2011)

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Author

Dmitry Samarov

Genre

Memoir & Autobiography

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3.43 of 5 Votes: 1

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ISBN

0226734730 (ISBN13: 9780226734736)

Language

English

Publisher

University Of Chicago Press

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Hack: Stories From A Chicago Cab (2011) - Plot & Excerpts

Dmitry Samarov has a keen eye for the people of Chicago who take taxis, and offers a view of both them and the life of a taxi driver. Some of his observations are hilarious, some are very sad, some show his frustration with the life of a cab driver. Maybe it was just because I grew up in Chicago, but as I was reading I could really see the places he was talking about and the people who were riding in his cab. If you enjoy slice-of-life stories, this is a great book. The anecdotes in this book are so brief and disconnected that it was hard for me to get invested in it. Since developing the characters of his passengers wasn't really his agenda, I found myself wishing that the book had developed the character of Chicago as a city. But I didn't really get a sense of it beyond "generic metro area." The author didn't win me over as a character in his own right either--his tone too often struck me as snide. There are some interesting passages about the inner workings of the cab industry, but I don't think they outweigh the book's shortcomings.

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