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CHET NICHOLS
The novel:
The Last Riders On Rt. 66
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THE LAST RIDERS ON ROUTE 66
the novel by Chet Nichols
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COMMENTS FROM THE AUTHOR:
My last novel, The Last Riders On Route 66, is a story about two college students who decide to take a hitchhiking trip from Oklahoma City to Los Angeles. The story takes place during their two week Spring Break back in late March of 1967. They learned that Route 66 was officially about to begin its breakup up into various segments and subsequent assimilation into the interstate highway system in the fall of that year. So, they decide to see Route 66 before it is covered over by the pending Super Slab. In essence, it is the story of two “Happy Days” era young men colliding with the “Hippie Days”.
The storyteller in my novel is a young musician and songwriter who hauls his guitar along with him on the trip and he finds himself being inspired by many people, places and situations that he encounters along Route 66. With the story taking place at the time when America is caught up in the Vietnam War, the rise of the civil rights movement, the explosion of the arts and music, the sexual revolution, the psychedelic era, the burgeoning space program, and the social and spiritual upheaval that personified the 1967, there is a lot for these two travelers to react to and a lot of situations that have a lasting effect on them.
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A BOOK REVIEW:
"Riding High On Route 66"
The Last Riders On Route 66, by Chet Nichols, is one of the very few books which accurately lives the many states of mind of the 1960s. His writing depicts those times unselfconsciously; allowing the characters to tell their quietly exciting tales with transparent innocence. It is appropriately sexy, realistically spiritual, intelligent, spontaneously violent, and effortlessly comedic. Long after reading it, one can continue to swill this story in thought. It has a good after taste. The Last Riders On Route 66 has multiple dimensions, accessible to most age groups and walks of life. This may be an important book for young men to read in coping with choices, pleasures, and consequences. It's delightful for us females to get all stirred up by. We'll give it to our lovers as a hint, hint, hint. The Last Riders On Route 66 makes you miss places you've never been to. It's the long version of a well written song.
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A BOOK REVIEW:
"The Road Novel We've Waited For"
February 25, 2000
Spring Break, 1966. Florida - been there, done that. Road Trip - where? Route 66. Let's go. Buck and Pete step onto 66 in Oklahoma, and step off in a California many of us remember and long for. Music, women and a culture unsure of where the Viet Nam War would lead us, provide the guys with a Spring Break unlike anything they had previously experienced. Chet Nichols brings to life a story dedicated to leaving the path our parents would have wished on us, to explore a world the majority only dreamed of. The discovery of an idyllic life in Flagstaff, Arizona (punctuated by a redneck run-in) leads the guys to understand there is something beyond the confines of Oklahoma. (A side note - although a novel, I can assure you Josh and Maggie are alive and well, and their Granddaughters are every bit as wild as their mothers - Flagstaff lives on!). The beach, and the grandeur of the Pacific, leads to the world of sex, drugs and rock-n-roll - a time many of us remember with fondness, and Chet brings it all back in vividly written scenes that make an "old guy" long for a return to those times. The Last Riders on Route 66 is the Route 66 novel we've waited for. Guidebooks, histories, maps and, even a murder mystery have explored the Mother Road, but Chet Nichols takes us on a Road Trip that will stir the emotions of those who lived through the excitement of the 60's only to land in the boredom of the 90's and the new millineum. Well, researched (with only a couple of minor errors about the road), and written in a style that virtually demands you keep reading, The Last Riders of Route 66 is a book for every Roadie who lived through the sixties. Were Buck and Pete truly the last riders of Route 66? The answer is, sadly, yes, they may have been. The rest of us can only search the road and bring with us our memories of those Road Trips from years gone by - but through the pages of Chet Nichols novel we are allowed to share in one of the great Road Trips of all time. This novel will make one heck of a movie!
REVIEWER; Bob Moore, Editor – “Route 66 Magazine (Grand Canyon country)
A BOOK REVIEW:
"A New Generational Voice"
I was referred to your site and book by a friend here in Phoenix. I can not tell you how much I enjoyed this book. Very funny in places and very thoughtful in places. I also loved the free-wheeling writing style. Very natural dialogue. I'm a big fan of Tom Wolfe and Ken Kesey and you are right there with these great
generational voices. Look forward to your next book!
Sincerely,
Teddy Washington - Phoenix"
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