nomadic myth
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I'm reading this now, and it's the first time I read anything by Paul Theroux. It's a bit long, but I'm having a good time with it. I guess I enjoy his writing style and narrative because I look forward to picking it up each time.
I like his jabs at just about everyone he meets; they are quite funny at times. I find his unrelenting criticism of aid-workers to be convincing if only because of its persistence. He classifies most of them as self-righteous bastards driving around in white Land Rovers.
I'm not quite convinced he doesn't take home a lot of prostitutes. He mentions very often that although he sees them he doesn't take them back to his hotel. I mean, would it be good to include those details anyway?
Anyway, I'll never travel across Africa the way he did, so it makes for good armchair tourism. I don't really feel like going to anywhere else in Africa after all his cynical remarks of other tourists, but hey, we're not all Paul Theroux
, even though we do want to see Africa.
I like his jabs at just about everyone he meets; they are quite funny at times. I find his unrelenting criticism of aid-workers to be convincing if only because of its persistence. He classifies most of them as self-righteous bastards driving around in white Land Rovers.
I'm not quite convinced he doesn't take home a lot of prostitutes. He mentions very often that although he sees them he doesn't take them back to his hotel. I mean, would it be good to include those details anyway?
Anyway, I'll never travel across Africa the way he did, so it makes for good armchair tourism. I don't really feel like going to anywhere else in Africa after all his cynical remarks of other tourists, but hey, we're not all Paul Theroux
, even though we do want to see Africa.