Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781469283296 (1469283298)
Publish date: May 14th 2013
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Book Club,
Economics,
Education,
Biography Memoir,
Road Trip
I purchased the Kindle edition of this book. In this frank and witty memoir, Ken Ilgunas lays bare the existential terror of graduating from the University of Buffalo with $32,000 of student debt. Ilgunas set himself an ambitious mission: get out of debt as quickly as possible. Inspired by the fr...
I debated giving the book 2 stars because I actually liked the book and the main character for the first third of the book or so. It made me a little more sympathetic to the millennial generation -- coming out of college, faced with debt. Not because I think their situation is really so much differe...
I really enjoyed this book. It was full of really interesting adventures by the author, and the part of living in the van actually only took up a few chapters at the end. I could see some parallels in how he described his spartan living, and even made tables to show how it worked out financially, ...
Why did I read it? I have a significant amount of unsecured debt which I have been paying off for years, and I am contemplating returning to university to change my life, so this book definitely caught my eye, having read the synopsis. What’s it about? Ken Ilgunas recounts his adventures as he s...