Bicycle Diaries - David Byrne Reviews
Description:Genre; Travel / Author: David Byrne / Publication Date: 2010 / Publisher: Faber & Faber
Newest Review: ... not just because it was a city that I wished to visit myself, but because I was interested in places such as the Stasi Museum ... more
... wihich he fleetingly describes. The essay on Buenos Aires is as entertaining a piece of travel writing as any I have read.
This is no travelogue or, indeed, collection of excerpts thereof. If a travel writer or a cycling writer had tackled this book it would have been very different. Byrne is a firm advocate of urban cycling but this is not the main focus of the book and readers hoping for a treatise on urban cycling will feel short-changed. While it could be argued that "Bicycle Diaries" suffers...more
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Bicycle Diaries - David Byrne: Cycle-killer, qu'est-ce que c'est? (982 words)by - written on 16/01/12, updated on 17/01/12 (Very useful, 59 readings)
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Back in the 1908s Talking Heads front man (and writer and artist) David Byrne started to use the bicycle as his primary means of transportation, not only when at home in New York, but when overseas either when touring or for gallery engagements. He bought a folding bicycle which he would stow in his suitcase re-assembling it when he reached his destination. "Bicycle Diaries" is a collection of nine essays, adapted from diary entries, which loosely describe some of his experiences combined with various musings on the nature of today's cities and the changes that could be made to make them better places in which to live and work, and the art scene in some of the . Read the complete review
