Bill Geist is no fool and the Emmy ward winning correspondent for CBS news has written several books through the years and it is his latest look at the fools of fly-by country that is the focus of todays book review. Geist goes through some of the peculiar charms of small-town America> Geist goes through many strange places known for their strange charm and he discovers many odd eccentric and neurotic individuals in Middle America. Geist's new book is called "way Off The Road" and few Americans would really be attracted to these places described by Geist.
One of them is detailed in a chapter of a ninety three year old paer boy who drops off newspapers by airplane to fellow geriatric ranch owner sin rural backwater America. Bill Geist has made a career highlighting these fools in his TV career and basically the whole book is about the foolish odd behaviors of some of these backwater folks. many of Bill's trips for this book takes him to middle Illinois as he searches White squirrels in Olney or eats shitty Moonburger in Moonshine burgers that some fools say are the best hamburgers in America. 
Most of his visits though are to very boring places whose desire to be on the map made it push some quirky fact that few people care of and this makes a very boring read once the oddity of thes eplaces is described. Geist also spends a long chapter talking about Wilson, North Carolina and their couch porch law ban. This ban on outdoor couches is practical and not so unique to Wilson, North Carolina and I wondered why Geist spent so much tie discussing this issue as outlawing nasty tacky indoor furniture by these hicks and fraternity types in many college towns is really not a new issue. 
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