Andrew Mueller
Author of I Wouldn't Start from Here: The 21st Century and Where It All Went Wrong
About the Author
Andrew Mueller is Australian by Birth, Londoner by Choice, wanderer by nature, and journalist by profession. Unable to decide between being a rock critic, travel writer, or foreign correspondent, he hit upon the novel, if time-consuming, solution of trying to be all three at once.
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- Birthdate
- 1968
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Australia
- Country (for map)
- Australia
- Birthplace
- Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
- Places of residence
- London, England, UK
- Occupations
- Journalist
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- 5
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- Rating
- 3.5
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- ISBNs
- 15
Each trip is described in a chapter, and they are interesting, insightful, and in places, funny. You might find his point of view irritating if you are right wing or ultra-religious, but as the chapters on the Netherlands (and England) in the wake of the Mohammed-cartoons debacle point out, that’s your problem to get over.
If I have any quibbles, they are two: first, that his style of long, complex sentences (and yes, I am susceptible to the same habit myself) sometimes slips from his control, requiring you to go back and re-read the previous sentence, adding mental punctuation, to make sense of it. And second, that there are a very few places where dodgy grammar has slipped through the editorial net. For example (from Chapter 22), “When it became too dark to take pictures, Amir took Alan and I home to meet his family.” I? Argh. Still, a couple of those in 450-odd pages aren’t too bad.… (more)