{"id":6983,"date":"2025-01-08T22:06:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/christopher-mcdougall-born-to-run-review-danecobain-com\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T22:06:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:06:58","slug":"christopher-mcdougall-born-to-run-review-danecobain-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=6983","title":{"rendered":"Christopher McDougall \u2013 Born to Run [REVIEW] \u2013 DaneCobain.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Title<\/strong>: Born to Run<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author<\/strong>: Christopher McDougall<\/p>\n<p><strong>Type:<\/strong>\u00a0Non-Fiction<\/p>\n<p><strong>Page Count\/Review Word Count<\/strong>: 296<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating:<\/strong>\u00a04\/5<\/p>\n<p>I picked this book up because I\u2019m a keen runner and I\u2019m always looking to learn more about the sport, and from a runner\u2019s point of view, I was kind of disappointed. Sure, running is central to the story, but in the same way that transportation is central to On the Road. The book wouldn\u2019t exist without it, but it\u2019s also largely incidental.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it\u2019s more about the disappearance of cultures and ways of life, and the way that cisgender Caucasians tend to bulldoze their way through whatever they find, even when they do so with the best of intentions. For example, Christian missionaries introduced all sorts of diseases to the Tarahumara Indians, the tribe that McDougall sets out to find at the start of the book.<\/p>\n<p>This, then, is the story of his adventure into uncharted territory as he tries to track down these elusive super-runners, but it\u2019s more about the journey than the destination. That\u2019s why there\u2019s less about running in this than I was expecting.<\/p>\n<p>With that said, I still enjoyed reading it, and it\u2019s the kind of narrative non-fiction that could appeal to a lot of readers, especially if they\u2019re fans of writers like Bill Bryson. If it was only about running then it wouldn\u2019t have been as widely read, and that means that I wouldn\u2019t have found it going cheap in a charity shop.<\/p>\n<p>And so all in all, I think Born to Run is worth reading, but if you\u2019re looking for something on the philosophy and act of running then you\u2019re going to want to look somewhere else. That\u2019s fine, just know what you\u2019re letting yourself in for.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/6289283-born-to-run?ac=1&amp;from_search=true&amp;qid=v0lNNPLEZ1&amp;rank=1\">Learn more about Born to Run.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Born to Run Author: Christopher McDougall Type:\u00a0Non-Fiction Page Count\/Review Word Count: 296 Rating:\u00a04\/5 I picked this book up because I\u2019m a keen runner and I\u2019m always looking to learn more about the sport, and from a runner\u2019s point of view, I was kind of disappointed. 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