Sideways Chile, Rex Pickett
Sideways Chile, Rex Pickett
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Sideways Chile
A Novel

Author: Rex Pickett

Narrator: Scott Brick

Unabridged: 9 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/16/2014

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

From the Academy Award–winning writer Rex Pickett comes the third installment in the Sideways series.Sideways: Chile follows the further adventures of Miles Raymond (played by Paul Giamatti in the critically acclaimed movie Sideways). It’s now a few years later and Miles is a successful author with a blockbuster movie adaptation under his belt, but he’s still searching for something, and depression has him, once again, in its taloned grip.When he is offered a chance to travel to the country of Chile and visit their wine regions for a magazine assignment, Miles—his world turned upside down by bad financial investments and even worse luck with relationships—happily agrees. A somewhat rudderless Miles finds Chile, their people, and their spectacular and vastly diverse wine regions, to be just the first step in a life-transforming journey.

About Rex Pickett

Rex Pickett is the critically acclaimed author of the novel Sideways, which was adapted into the iconic film of the same title. Sideways was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning for Best Adapted Screenplay, among 350 other plaudits. Pickett is the author of three Sideways sequels—the IPPY Gold Medal–winning Sideways Oregon (previously published as Vertical), Sideways Chile, and now Sideways New Zealand. He is also the author of The Archivist. Pickett is currently working on a post–Sideways New Zealand trilogy. A Southern California native, the Rex Pickett Papers are currently enshrined at Geisel Library on the campus of his alma mater, the University of California San Diego.

About Scott Brick

Scott Brick, an acclaimed voice artist, screenwriter, and actor, has performed on film, television, and radio. He attended UCLA and spent ten years in a traveling Shakespeare company. Passionate about the spoken word, he has narrated a wide variety of audiobooks. winning won more than fifty AudioFile Earphones Awards and several of the prestigious Audie Awards. He was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine and the Voice of Choice for 2016 by Booklist magazine.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tracy on July 11, 2016

Really, really, really wanted to like this book. Sadly, I didn't. I really loved Vertical, the first sequel in the series. It showed a somewhat happier Miles Raymond who had basically switched affluence with Jack. I had hoped that Miles would have evolved further and come into his own. It appears th......more

Goodreads review by Valerie on August 02, 2022

3 and a 1/2. I think Pickett is a very good writer from the standpoint of his command of the English language and his ability to break down a wine tasting experience. Did not get as much feel for the wines of Chile in this travel journal, which I take as being a polite way of saying the country need......more

Goodreads review by Coachcliff on January 10, 2015

Miles' neuroses hit an all time high in this 3rd and final (hopefully) installment of the Sideways series. Rex Picket brings it home well, but the book took quite a while to really get going. I am not sure that many people can connect with Miles in this sotry, as there is far too much whining in thi......more

Goodreads review by Amy on November 29, 2024

Basically read this to feel drunk vicariously as nothing really happened......more

Goodreads review by Vicki on March 15, 2023

I loved Sideways and I really liked Vertical, but I actively disliked this ending to the trilogy. Firstly, it’s just so badly un-edited that it’s hard to read. It’s as though Rex Pickett put this together using notes he’d made while in Chile then didn’t bother reading back over his own work himself.......more

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