Bobby Bolton Audiobooks

Truck It!: a self-narrated travel memoir about one long road and a new life

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.8/5 average

234 listener ratings

Who is Bobby Bolton?

Travel writing shelved next to the outdoors and, of all things, the home: Truck It! spreads across categories because the journey it describes refused to stay in one. The book follows a long overland drive, a truck converted into somewhere to live, a dog for company, and a life put back together on the way.

We keep to what the work shows. That is a memoir written in the first person and read in the same voice, warm rather than heroic in register, and unembarrassed about the mess that set the whole thing in motion.

Bobby Bolton in audiobooks

Seven hours and thirty-three minutes, narrated by Bobby Bolton in person. Author narration is the right decision for this kind of book: the accent, the timing and the shrugs are part of the story, and a hired voice would have smoothed them out.

Listeners have been generous, with a high score across a couple of hundred ratings, which for a travel memoir usually means the company was good rather than the scenery merely impressive. Worth trying if you like your adventure stories domestic in scale and honest about the low points. The audiobooks below are the way in.