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Title: Roads to Santiago by Cees Nooteboom ISBN: 0156011581 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 21 February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8
Rating: 5
Summary: EVER WONDERED HOW TO TRAVEL?
Comment: first of all, cees nooteboom is a shining oasis in the arid intellectual desert of contemporary travel writing, and secondly, you should let go of everything that makes you unhappy, and set sail tomorrow.
the sheer profundity and wit of nooteboom's observations left me, for one, in like total dumbstruck awe, and his seemingly divine ability to translate the most visceral of emotions into words (a medium of communication i had always, up till now, considered inferior) made me feel a little bit the same way i felt the first time i went skydiving. folks, this here is a man who knows how to travel, as well as being a freakin miracle of a writer--and anyone who is capable of firing a sincere philosophic-type synapse will LOVE HIM. also read "the following story," all you existential types out there--he's like a dreamy, colorful Camus, and his prose will make your eyes feel clean for the first time in years.
Rating: 3
Summary: Disappointed in this book.
Comment: Am still trying to finish this book! Compared to some of the others on the subject, it's a hard read. I'll probably sell it.
Rating: 1
Summary: A silly babble-logue about Spain.
Comment: Spain becomes grist for the cracked mill wheel of Cees Nooteboom's mind. The book isn't really about Spain, it's about the author and his obsessive fixation with certain Spanish topics. He does this with painfully long rambling descriptions of various Spanish cultural icons that have caught his attention, drilling down to the time when they first caught his attention and the many times since then that he has pondered them. The topics themselves are interesting but almost irrelevant to the self indulgent dredging of the author's own mind. You would learn more hard facts about these topics from a museum brochure. The twin pillars of this tortuously slow moving narrative are the painter Zurban and Romanesque architecture. He drops and picks up these topics at random, throughout the book, and prattles on about them as if he is possessed with a reoccurring fever. He also slathers his book with an impressive amount of trite clichés about Spain, Spain the land of contrasts, Castille La Mancha the land of desolate panoramas, etc. He goes on ad nauseum. He also plays a little fast and loose with the few historical facts he deigns to use. He states that the aqueduct in Segovia was used until 1974; according to Segovia's municipal web site it is still in use. He states that Pizzaro left from Extremadura with an invasion force for Peru; Pizzaro left from Central America where he had been established for some years. Obviously no fact checker touched this book before publication. There are many wonderful books about Spain. This isn't one of them.
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Title: The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago De Compostela by William Melczer ISBN: 0934977259 Publisher: Italica Press, Inc. Pub. Date: 1993 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom ISBN: 015600254X Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 1996 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago: The Complete Cultural Handbook by Linda Kay Davidson, David M. Gitlitz ISBN: 0312254164 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Rituals by Cees Nooteboom ISBN: 0156003945 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 1996 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Pilgrim Stories: On and Off the Road to Santiago by Nancy Louise Frey ISBN: 0520217519 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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