Vertical: Passion and Pinot on the Oregon Wine Trail: Wine Blogger Early Review Edition, (Paperback)

I loved taking this JOY RIDE with Miles, Jack and the whole crew. I read the first unedited edition, and this new edition was MILES AHEAD (no pun intended)! The story-line hooked me from the beginning and the rich characters (with all of their flaws) had me staying up late every night to see what was going to happen next. I laughed and cried, and was actually bummed that the book had to end. Hoping to see this on the big screen! Cheers!

Buyer beware: this is not the original "Vertical" that "Sideways" author Rex Pickett wrote. I ordered it by mistake. I read it, and it read okay, I guess, but when I found out it wasn't the original book that the author wrote, I was both appalled and felt ripped off at the same time. Why would the publisher, without the writer's involvment or cooperation, have some hack editor chop his award-winning book that was released 5 years ago (!) into bits? Then, sprinkle it with badly-done cartoons [sic]! And don't get me started on the publisher's introduction, which is nothing short of a lame rationalization for doing what he did without the author's permission or collaboration. Really? Is this done? I don't think so. It's an affront to every writer who's ever written and published. But, to an award-winning novel? Why? It doesn't make sense. It is a new low for independent publishing, and this particular "publisher" who seems to feel he had the right to destroy Rex's novel. Wow.