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Title: The Old Patagonian Express : By Train Through the Americas by Paul Theroux ISBN: 0-395-52105-X Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 07 November, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.64 (22 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: start slow
Comment: Having read a few of Theroux's books, this one starts very slow...almost plodding along. It's very hard to read until he makes it through Central America. The characters (people) he meets from the time he leaves Boston until he reaches South America don't seem to add to the story. In fact, the author treats them in a seemingly condescending way. Once he reaches South America, however, the book becomes eminently more readable. I didn't enjoy this one nearly as much as "Riding the Iron Rooster", but interesting in it's own way.
Rating: 4
Summary: An obnoxious but fun book.
Comment: As a venezuelan I thank god that there is no train to my country and that Paul Theroux didn't stop in Venezuela because almost everywhere that he went , including part of the U.S.A, he had the ability, the gift to find only the negative things. So you should ask me, then why did I give this book 4 stars, because its fun to read. Paul Theroux, a young writer in the seventies, one day decides to leave his wife and kids in their home in London, go back to his parents house in Massachussets and from there take a train to the Patagonia: the farthest south that he could go. Sounds fun for an adventurous man, but all the time, all the places he keeps bitching about everything: The people on the trains, the people in the cities, how he misses his family, what is he doing there, about the food, about the hotels. Well you name it, but in the middle of all this bitching you can almost find yourself in the forest, in the middle of a civil war, in the top of the mountain, meeting Borges, every day completely different from the other.Paul Theroux can be real obnoxious, but he sure can write.
Rating: 2
Summary: Can we have an explorer's perspective please.
Comment: Paul's books provide a very detailed travel account. But, it appears to be a reporter's view. His writings lack the passion of an explorer. Travelling to distant places is essentially a journey within. Great travelers wouldn't ridicule the places they visit or the people they meet. In this book he seems describing the slums and the poverty of Mexico and other countries. Trust me, not many people want to be poor by choice.
Traveling is a sublime, spiritual & learning experience. It is an opportunity to look beyond our perceptions & bias. His writings are just an account of what he saw, they lack the light of a traveler...
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Title: The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia by Paul Theroux ISBN: 014024980X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux ISBN: 0804104549 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 28 March, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Pillars of Hercules by Paul Theroux ISBN: 0449910857 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 29 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain by Paul Theroux ISBN: 0140071814 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Happy Isles of Oceania : Paddling the Pacific by Paul Theroux ISBN: 0449908585 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 19 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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