Sideways Oregon

The Sideways Series, Book 2

By: Rex Pickett

Narrated by: Scott Brick

The follow-up novel to the blockbuster Sideways—the inspiration for the award-winning film of the same name, starring Paul Giamatti—Sideways Oregon tracks the continuing story of Miles Raymond and his buddy Jack.

Seven years have passed since Miles and Jack took their infamous bachelor trip to the Santa Ynez Valley. Miles has written a novel that was made into a wildly successful movie, which changed his life. Jack, contrarily, is divorced, has a kid, and is on the skids. Phyllis, Miles’s mom, suffered a stroke that left her wheelchair-bound and wasting away in assisted living, and she desperately wants to live with her sister in Wisconsin.

When Miles gets invited to be master of ceremonies at the International Pinot Festival in Oregon, he hatches a harebrained scheme. With Jack as his copilot, he leases a handicapped-equipped van, hires a pot-smoking Filipina caretaker, and—with his mother’s rascally Yorkie in tow—they take off for Wisconsin via Oregon’s fabled Willamette Valley.

This is one road trip that is anything but predictable…

©2010, 2024 Sideways Oregon was previously copyrighted in © 2010 as Vertical, the second installment in the Sideways series (P)2024 Blackstone Publishing

Such a departure from Sideways…

Way too much pathetically written sex scenes, full of crude sexual imagery. It gets in the way of what may have been a good follow up.

I’m struggling to get through this book.