Download or read book Tales from the Cab written by Ray Flynn and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of customer quotes and stories. This collection is definitely not for kids! It's a blender out there!

Download or read book Hack written by Dmitry Samarov and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cabdrivers and their yellow taxis are as much a part of the cityscape as the high-rise buildings and the subway. We hail them without thought after a wearying day at the office or an exuberant night on the town. And, undoubtedly, taxi drivers have stories to tell—of farcical local politics, of colorful passengers, of changing neighborhoods and clandestine shortcuts. No one knows a city’s streets—and thus its heart—better than its cabdrivers. And from behind the wheel of his taxi, Dmitry Samarov has seen more of Chicago than most Chicagoans will hope to experience in a lifetime. An artist and painter trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Samarov began driving a cab in 1993 to make ends meet, and he’s been working as a taxi driver ever since. In Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab, he recounts tales that will delight, surprise, and sometimes shock the most seasoned urbanite. We follow Samarov through the rhythms of a typical week, as he waits hours at the garage to pick up a shift, ferries comically drunken passengers between bars, delivers prostitutes to their johns, and inadvertently observes drug deals. There are long waits with other cabbies at O’Hare, vivid portraits of street corners and their regular denizens, amorous Cubs fans celebrating after a game at Wrigley Field, and customers who are pleasantly surprised that Samarov is white—and tell him so. Throughout, Samarov’s own drawings—of his fares, of the taxi garage, and of a variety of Chicago street scenes—accompany his stories. In the grand tradition of Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, Mike Royko, and Studs Terkel, Dmitry Samarov has rendered an entertaining, poignant, and unforgettable vision of Chicago and its people.

Download or read book Tales from the Cab Part 2 written by Ray Flynn and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-07-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have been driving cab for over eight years. I hear some wild stories and lots of unforgettable quotes. It is a fun job and an interesting job, to say the least. Fair warning: there are F-bombs and other bombs printed in this book. It is not for kids.

Download or read book Taxi Cab Stories written by John Egan and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-22 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infused with John's unique sense of wry humor, these stories take the reader along on a ride through John's experiences as a cab driver in Brockton, Mass during the late 1970s. The stories are a mixture of the hilarious, odd, insightful, and sorrowful; introducing the reader to such characters as Black Laurel and Hardy, Captain Quaalude, and Mr. Magoo.This is how one cab ride ended as John pulled up to an ER..."An orderly, hearing the tires give up their remaining tread in an anguished squeal, ran out expecting a near death emergency arrival. I jammed my driver seat forward and ran over to open Mom's door. She got out calmly, I was anticipating a warm "thanks."She got hold of her purse. I figured to get the fare and a great tip. Instead, she starts beating me with it! Hard! I am 6′4″ and she was able to hit me squarely on top of my head. She was going to nail me into the ground like a human spike!She said, "I told you to get me to the hospital quickly, not to put me in it!" (as she rained beats down on me with her purse) Little Guy (her son) was hopping up and down saying "Can we do that again!?! That was unbelievable!" which made Mom angrier.The orderly skidded to a stop, wondering if I was the bad guy, Mom was a maniac, or this might be some personal matter between two consenting adults, especially one (Mom) that weighed about 4 times what he did. He said nothing, did not come an inch closer. He seemed frozen in fear, a desire for personal safety, and a crushing curiosity to see how it played out."This is how another cab ride ended after two guys considered robbing John..."I got them to their destination in one piece. The fare was just under $10, blond threw me a twenty and said, "Keep it," as they fell over themselves in their hurry to get out. I didn't even thank them for the tip, just acted as if I expected it. Like it was payment for the 'joy ride.'The last thing the black-haired guy said as the scrambled out. "I never met someone as nuts as you, man. Never!"Blond goes, "You're not safe, man. You're nuts. You shouldn't be f**kin' driving!"I looked at them with a bored, 'do this all the time' look and shrugged....I radioed for Gary to get the cops. I gave the address, a description, and said the cops should be careful as at least one was armed."Join John for other fares as he drives from experience to experience, wending his way through an incredible world of stories from his cab driving days.

Download or read book Taxi Tales written by Lou Solitske and published by Taxi Tales. This book was released on 2001 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Confessions of a New York Taxi Driver The Confessions Series written by Eugene Salomon and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driving a cab for more than 30 years Gene Salomon has collected a remarkable selection of stories. He shares the very best in this unforgettable memoir.

Download or read book Call Me A Cab written by Donald E. Westlake and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final unpublished novel by MWA Grandmaster – a wild, romantic road trip across America by taxi cab – demonstrates why this beloved author is so fondly remembered and so dearly missed. “A book by this guy is cause for happiness.” Stephen King DONALD E. WESTLAKE GOES OFF THE BEATEN PATH In 1977, one of the world’s finest crime novelists turned his pen to suspense of a very different sort – and the results have never been published, until now. Fans of mystery fiction have often pondered whether it would be possible to write a suspense novel without any crime at all, and in CALL ME A CAB the masterful Donald E. Westlake answered the question in his inimitable style. You won’t find any crime in these pages – but what you will find is a wonderful suspense story, about a New York City taxi driver hired to drive a beautiful woman all the way across America, from Manhattan to Los Angeles, where the biggest decision of her life is waiting to be made. From Pennsylvania to Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Arizona and Nevada on the way to California, the characters’ odyssey takes them through uncharted territory – on the map and in their lives. It’s Westlake at his witty, thought-provoking best, and it proves that a page-turner doesn’t need to have a bomb set to go off at the end of it in order to keep sparks flying every step of the way.

Download or read book Taxi written by Graham Russell Gao Hodges and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why the cabdriver is the real victim of the false promises of Uber and the gig economy. 2007 Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Princeton University Industrial Relations Section Hailed in its first edition as a classic study of New York City's history and people, Graham Russell Gao Hodges's Taxi! is a remarkable evocation of the forgotten history of the taxi driver. This deftly woven narrative captures the spirit of New York City cabdrivers and their hardscrabble struggle to capture a piece of the American dream. From labor unrest and racial strife to ruthless competition and political machinations, Hodges recounts this history through contemporary news accounts, Hollywood films, and the words of the cabbies themselves. A new preface recalls the author's five years of hacking in New York City in the early 1970s, and a new concluding chapter explores the rise of app-based ridesharing services with the arrival of companies like Uber and Lyft. Sharply criticizing the use of the independent contractor model that is the cornerstone of Uber and the gig economy, Hodges argues that the explosion of for-hire vehicles in Manhattan reversed decades of environmental anti-congestion efforts. He calls for a return to the careful regulations that governed taxicabs for decades and provided a modest yet secure living for cabbies. Whether or not you've ever hailed a cab on Broadway, Taxi! provides a fascinating perspective on New York's most colorful emissaries.

Download or read book Taxi written by Biju Mathew and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on conversations with the drivers themselves, "Taxi!" details both the pressures and triumphs of life behind the wheel. Mathew reveals in this highly readable, fast-paced survey of New York's taxi business, that just about everything has been dramatically altered except the yellow paint.

Download or read book Diary of a Cab Man written by Jonathan Zissman and published by . This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diary of a Cab Man is a brief look into the life of a person everyone knows: a cab driver. Driving a taxi is a microcosm of life. There are ups and there are downs. Some people think it is a simple job. It is not. Learning what to do IS easy. But, you are thrown curveball after curveball after curveball. What if your passengers run away from you? Or, maybe you hit a nail in the road. Or lightning interferes with your GPS signal. Or your pick-up address is incorrect. These are among the things that conspire against you, and drivers have no control over any of it. Have fun reading these true stories and learn how crazy this profession can be.

Download or read book Driven written by Marcello Di Cintio and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Bressani Literary Prize • A Globe and Mail Book of the Year • A CBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2021 In conversations with drivers ranging from veterans of foreign wars to Indigenous women protecting one another, Di Cintio explores the borderland of the North American taxi. “The taxi,” writes Marcello Di Cintio, “is a border.” Occupying the space between public and private, a cab brings together people who might otherwise never have met—yet most of us sit in the back and stare at our phones. Nowhere else do people occupy such intimate quarters and share so little. In a series of interviews with drivers, their backgrounds ranging from the Iraqi National Guard, to the Westboro Baptist Church, to an arranged marriage that left one woman stranded in a foreign country with nothing but a suitcase, Driven seeks out those missed conversations, revealing the unknown stories that surround us. Travelling across borders of all kinds, from battlefields and occupied lands to midnight fares and Tim Hortons parking lots, Di Cintio chronicles the many journeys each driver made merely for the privilege to turn on their rooflight. Yet these lives aren’t defined by tragedy or frustration but by ingenuity and generosity, hope and indomitable hard work. From night school and sixteen-hour shifts to schemes for athletic careers and the secret Shakespeare of Dylan’s lyrics, Di Cintio’s subjects share the passions and triumphs that drive them. Like the people encountered in its pages, Driven is an unexpected delight, and that most wondrous of all things: a book that will change the way you see the world around you. A paean to the power of personality and perseverance, it’s a compassionate and joyful tribute to the men and women who take us where we want to go.

Download or read book Don t Take Me the Long Way written by M. C. Mars and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary memoir of thirty, true, truly outrageous taxi stories spanning four decades in the inner city. The majority of stories take place at night in SF (with a few earlier stories set in NYC and the NY area.) Through stories that are in turn -- funny, dangerous and simply outrageous, the reader meets a whole cavalcade of characters, and observes with the eye of a hidden camera, the stresses that create the cabdriver's evolution to a higher consciousness; a greater awareness of himself and the wolrd he inhabits.

Download or read book Taxi Tales written by Joyce Ibrahim and published by Publish America. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do you want to be scum of the earth? I give you thirty days before you get disgusted and quit," was my first conversation with another woman taxi driver. The small woman interrogating me was wearing a rat's nest hairpiece that she thought made her look more attractive, and sported a torn shirt-sleeve over her left arm to prevent sunburn. She was definitely trying to discourage me. This was the start to my love-hate relationship that lasted over ten years on the streets of Southern California. I frequently changed cab companies, looking for the magic money trip at the end of my rainbow, with no two days ever the same. Taxi tales are not new to cabdrivers; they have all experienced them. Some of these tales are the absolute truth and some only explained by "being alone in her cab too much."

Download or read book The Mystery of a Hansom Cab written by Fergus Hume and published by LA CASE Books. This book was released on 2022-08-28 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the classic work of nineteenth century mystery fiction, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, by Fergus Hume (1859-1932). Originally published in 1886, and set in Victorian-era Melbourne, Australia, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is the story of a mysterious body discovered in a hansom cab. The ensuing homicide investigation, led by our protagonist Detective Gorby, draws us into the long buried secrets of the rich and influential Frettlby family and the class struggles that divide the rich and poor in Victorian-era Melbourne, Australia. A lively and engaging novel, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is still a sensational read for lovers of mysteries stories, and is also a must-read for fans of the genre as a pivotal example of the evolution of the genre from sensationalist crime literature to complex detective thrillers. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab was Australia's first international bestselling novel and remains one of the bestselling detective novels of the 19th century. Published one year prior to Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study In Scarlet, it was ground-breaking and genre-defining, and in fact old-sold this first of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels.

Download or read book The Invention of Hugo Cabret written by Brian Selznick and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An orphan and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy train station. He desperately believes a broken automaton will make his dreams come true. But when his world collides with an eccentric girl and a bitter old man, Hugo's undercover life are put in jeopardy. Turn the pages, follow the illustrations and enter an unforgettable new world!

Download or read book Wild Tales written by Graham Nash and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A founding member of the bands Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and the Hollies shares the story of his life from his youth in post-war England through his creative relationship with Joni Mitchell and his career as a solo musician and political activist

Download or read book Creatura written by Nely Cab and published by Clean Teen Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE CREATURA SERIES IS THE DANTE ROSETTI FIRST PLACE WINNER, two years running, and a 2016 READERS' FAVORITE HONORABLE MENTION in the Young Adult-Fantasy category. Isis can control her dreams. Or she could―until recently. The creature in her nightmares has been haunting her for months. As if being dumped wasn't bad enough, now she dreads going to sleep. She decides to confront the creature and win back some of her peace; only, she finds that he's not a monster and he's not a dream. A sacrifice for love, a shocking discovery and a jealous ex-boyfriend blur the lines between reality and dreams, making it hard to tell who the real monsters are. Who would've known...that sometimes love is lethal? Creatura is the first book in the award winning Creatura Series. Continue Isis's heart-stopping adventure with Fruit of Misfortune (Creatura, #2), Marker of Hope (Creatura, #3), and Prelude (a prequel novella). *** WATCH THE BOOK TRAILER*** Check out the official book trailer professionally filmed by Timid Monster here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt22QpHUJcI REVIEWS: "An achingly beautiful love story." ⎯Author Sherry Ficklin "I give this story five stars, because I can't give it ten!" ⎯Amazon Customer "... an entertaining history between divine beings and mortals." ⎯Chanticleer Book Reviews "A beautiful twist on mythology." ⎯Author Cameo Renae "I cannot stress enough how much I enjoyed Creatura and how delighted I am that it is the first in a series of books, which I will be sure to add to my personal collection. I recommend Creatura to readers who enjoy humor, mystery, tragedy, action, thrill and romance combined in an incredible paranormal adventure." ⎯Rosie Malezer, Readers' Favorite "David is absolutely delicious!" ⎯Author Sara Humphreys Action Adventure Action Adventure Thriller Award winning books Books for Teen Girls books for teens Boys and Men Issues Coming of Age Contemporary Fiction Contemporary Romance contemporary romance modern Death & Dying demigods and Greek gods demons and supernatural Emotions & Feelings Fairy Tale adaptation Fairy tale retelling Fantasy Fantasy books fantasy urban Female Heroines folklore and myths Free romance Free teen books Free YA books Free young adult books Free young adult romance Girl power books Girls and Womens Issues Greek myth Greek mythology Horror Legends and myths light fantasy Mature young adult books mystery books teens Mystery Thrillers Suspense Myths and Legends paranormal romance adventure Romance Romance and adventure Romance books Romance historical Romance Science Fiction Science Fiction Science Fiction romance Social Issues Super powers Supernatural supernatural and monsters Survival Stories survival stories thriller Teen and Young Adult Books Teen fantasy Teen Fantasy books Teen fiction Teen fiction Teen fiction books Teen fiction series Teen love teen love story Teen Romance Novels teen romance suspense Teen Sci Fi Teen Science Fiction Urban Fantasy Urban paranormal fantasy Vampire books Visionary & Metaphysical Women and Girls YA books YA books best sellers YA books fantasy YA books for teens YA mystery suspense YA novels YA Science Fiction YA Series young adult adventure books young adult adventure fantasy young adult award winner young adult best sellers Young adult books best sellers 2017 Young adult books for girls Young adult books free Young adult books romance Young adult fantasy young adult fiction Young adult fiction series young adult horror fiction Young Adult Romance Books Young adult romance paranormal Young Adult Science Fiction young adult science fiction thriller Young adult series