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US Mall 1 - Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
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List Price: $28.00
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 915.04425092
EAN: 9780618418879
ISBN: 0618418873
Label: Houghton Mifflin
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: 2008-08-18
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Studio: Houghton Mifflin
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Summary: The Older the Violin, The Sweeter the Music
Comment: I have been reading Theroux's travel books for more than 30 years, and I have to say that they and he get better all the time.
This latest book is the funniest, wisest, kindest, most beautifully written of the books. What the author has lost in endurance (he goes to sleep much earlier than ever before) and appetite (he stays pretty much away from the bars), he makes up for in humanness.
Like all the great writers, he's a man on a mission, and the mission is to tell us that there are people in the world who deserve our love and admiration and there are people in the world who don't deserve anything because they are here to hurt us. He tells us this in such a way that we realize that the world isn't such a bad place and that it's a good thing to stick around a little longer.
John Guzlowski
Lightning and Ashes
Customer Rating:
Summary: Fast service - good book
Comment: The book, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, is an excellent travel book. It does go even further, however, in his many conversations with the people he meets along the way. It is informative and well as entertaining.
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Summary: Return of the king
Comment: Theroux returns for a repeat encounter with the people and places that made him thirty years ago with the Great Railway Bazaar. The protagonist has aged from young turk to an itinerant king who hobnobs with luminaries such as Arthur Clark and Murakami in an 'oh by the way' manner amongst his weekly jaunts. The places have similarly 'grown up' from exotic (not always desirably so) to emerging (with increasing prosperity accompanied with a loss of innocence).
The resulting chemistry (in particular his encounter with the Indian 'outsourcing miracle') has depth, balance, introspection and even a touch of melancholy. You could argue that this is now a more serious man, a more considered view.
But in the hindsight of having made it to the book's back cover - Theroux has lost more gunslinger that he's gained sagacity. The amplitude of his insights have decreased, the observations more palatable but not as trenchantly original. Still a great read, but from a master traveler who's lost a step or two with age.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Classic Paul Theroux travel book
Comment: This book is a great read from one of the best travel writers of the past 35 years. I've read all his travel books and essays and some of his fiction. I voraciously consumed this book in a couple of weeks. If you like travel writing, give this a try. You won't be sorry.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Bliss, as he would say, sitting on a train, heading off into a foreign land
Comment: If you like Paul Theroux travel books, then you wont be disappointed - this is a great book. Read it - slowly. Enjoy!
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Editorial Reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: The Older the Violin, The Sweeter the Music
Comment: I have been reading Theroux's travel books for more than 30 years, and I have to say that they and he get better all the time.
This latest book is the funniest, wisest, kindest, most beautifully written of the books. What the author has lost in endurance (he goes to sleep much earlier than ever before) and appetite (he stays pretty much away from the bars), he makes up for in humanness.
Like all the great writers, he's a man on a mission, and the mission is to tell us that there are people in the world who deserve our love and admiration and there are people in the world who don't deserve anything because they are here to hurt us. He tells us this in such a way that we realize that the world isn't such a bad place and that it's a good thing to stick around a little longer.
John Guzlowski
Lightning and Ashes
Customer Rating:
Summary: Fast service - good book
Comment: The book, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, is an excellent travel book. It does go even further, however, in his many conversations with the people he meets along the way. It is informative and well as entertaining.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Return of the king
Comment: Theroux returns for a repeat encounter with the people and places that made him thirty years ago with the Great Railway Bazaar. The protagonist has aged from young turk to an itinerant king who hobnobs with luminaries such as Arthur Clark and Murakami in an 'oh by the way' manner amongst his weekly jaunts. The places have similarly 'grown up' from exotic (not always desirably so) to emerging (with increasing prosperity accompanied with a loss of innocence).
The resulting chemistry (in particular his encounter with the Indian 'outsourcing miracle') has depth, balance, introspection and even a touch of melancholy. You could argue that this is now a more serious man, a more considered view.
But in the hindsight of having made it to the book's back cover - Theroux has lost more gunslinger that he's gained sagacity. The amplitude of his insights have decreased, the observations more palatable but not as trenchantly original. Still a great read, but from a master traveler who's lost a step or two with age.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Classic Paul Theroux travel book
Comment: This book is a great read from one of the best travel writers of the past 35 years. I've read all his travel books and essays and some of his fiction. I voraciously consumed this book in a couple of weeks. If you like travel writing, give this a try. You won't be sorry.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Bliss, as he would say, sitting on a train, heading off into a foreign land
Comment: If you like Paul Theroux travel books, then you wont be disappointed - this is a great book. Read it - slowly. Enjoy!
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