Halfway to Heaven
By Mark Obmascik
Published in 2009 by Free Press,
a division of Simon and Schuster
ISBN13: 978-1-4165-6699-1
Reviewed by Martha Quillen
Halfway to Heaven is an adventure travelogue featuring harrowing tales of derring-do and death, along with passages about Colorado history, Colorado places (including Leadville and Salida), Colorado fourteeners, and mountain climbers; all held together with stand-up style comedy.
For me, this combination was not an immediate success. At first, I thought Obmascikâs jokes about marriage, aging, baldness, and parenthood blended with his profile on William Henry Jackson about as well as ice cream and lemonade blend to make a sundae.