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54. Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux ... times, reading a few passages, and they always seem unpleasant. Maybe it's just the ones I pick up. I remember looking at Dark Star Safari and one whose title I can't remember about traveling through the Americas by train.
I'm afraid I like some humor in my travel books, things like Trillin, ... More 2009 reading:
16.Family of Secrets by Russ Baker 3 1/2 stars
17. 2666 by Bolano 4 1/2 stars
18. Dark Star Safari by Theroux 3 stars
19. The Burning Book by Maggie Gee 1 1/2 stars
20. The New York Trilogy by Auster 4 stars
21. Poor Folk by Doestoevsky
... ... childhood and her later book Scribbling the Cat, travels wlith an African Soldier
And, of course, Paul Theroux's Dark Star Safari : overland from Cairo to Cape Town is a classic. Re Dark Star Safari: I read Theroux's London Embassy last year and thought it was terrible, but it sounds like maybe he's better at non-fiction than fiction. I'll have to give him another shot, especially since I'm starting to develop an interest in African history and culture. I finished Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux, a leftover from February's Reading Globally--Africa segment, this week. Rather than a travelogue of the countries he visits on his journey (by foot, car, boat and train) between Cairo and Capetown, the bulk of the book consists of Theroux's ... 19.Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux (2003) 472 pp
In Dark Star Safari, Paul Theroux documents his trek by train, boat, car and foot from Cairo to Capetown. I read it as part of Reading Globally's Africa segment in February.
Theroux visits the countries of Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, ... I am reading Paul Theroux's Dark Star Safari in which he describes his trek from Cairo to Capetown by boat, car, train and foot. In Cairo, when he describes his plans for his trip at a party, a couple of people comment that they have never been to Africa. Theroux responds, "But this is A ... I'm in Santa Teresa, Mexico with 2666, and in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania with Dark Star Safari. Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux
Category: Travel
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Dark Star Safari has generated widely differing reviews. Some people find Theroux's insights into contemporary Africa well-informed and valuable. Others deride him as a constant complainer, arrogant know-it-all and secret hater ... Your review has inspired me to read Heart of Darkness. I am just finishing up Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux and it is riddled with references to Conrad. I can certainly outdo your ignorance about links between literature and the movies...I only knew that Apocalypse Now was based on Heart of D ... I'm in Biafra in Half a Yellow Sun when I'm not passing through the Sudan in Dark Star Safari. ... did not like The Mosquito Coast ( and have not read anything else by Theroux). I've only read a couple of chapters of Dark Star Safari and I am enjoying it so far because the subject matter is so interesting. It's not an in-depth comprehensive travel book--more anecdotal, like his evening ... Dark Star Safari sounds cool. But I read The Mosquito Coast and was soundly disappointed with Theroux, to the point that I vowed not to read any more of his. Maybe you can convince me, ABW! ... deebee--do you plan to read the other two books in the trilogy?
As part of the reading globally this month, I am reading Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux. His journey starts in Cairo, and he describes an evening spent in the salon of Mahfouz, who was then in his 90's. It was fascinating. I just started Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux. I'm reading a chapter or two or night as background for reading globally in Africa this month. Unfortunately, it covers East Africa, and the two novels (so far) I am planning to read are set in West Africa, so I guess I will have to find an ... ... high counter.
I make pictures in my mind with the words, and continuity errors just bring me to a screeching halt.
Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux (non-fiction)
This was also for a RL book group. The writer goes back to Africa, where he worked in the Peace Corps 20-30 years ago ( and ... ... like a great combination of arctic lore, Nordic mythology and Nazi creepiness. Can't wait for your review. I'm also reading Dark Star Safari so I'll look for your thoughts on that too. ... Yellow Sun
15. This Blinding Absence of Light
16. Family of Secrets
17. 2666
MARCH BOOKS
18. Poor Folk
19. Dark Star Safari
20. The Burning Book
21. The New York Trilogy
22. Hottentot Venus
23. Pale Fire
24. Blackwater
25. Headhunter
26. A Box of Matches
27. ... ... Trees *
The Bastard of Istanbul *
The Trouble With Magic *
Slipping into Paradise *
The Dragon's Nine Sons
Dark Star Safari *
Saving Fish From Drowning *
The Historian *
Sky Burial *
Time's Eye *
Books with a star are book group choices. I belong to 4, so they ... 9 Books on Travels
1. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
2. Heart Of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
3. Dark Star Safari - Paul Theroux
4. The ice museum : in search of the lost land of Thule - Joanna Kavenna
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113. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks - loved this book and will buy it in the near future
114. Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux - nonfiction
115. The Chase by Clive Cussler - my BC book for the week
As of 3/31, 35 nonfiction books and 13 audiobooks ... On the agenda for the coming week: Bangkok 8, Dark Star Safari, Kabul Beauty School, The Chase, Shakespeare: The World as Stage, Soldiers of the Night, Castle Nowhere, Three Victorian Travellers, The Queen of Attolia, Deathstalker, Perdido Street Station, Cry, the Belov ... ... of the Night by David Schoenbrun
Marco Polo by Laurence Bergreen
Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux
... much is fact and how much is fiction.
Lost Heart of Asia by Colin Thubron. Central Asia in the early 1990's.
Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux. Because there aren't too many trains in Africa, he does a lot of road travel in this recent one. ... Job for a Woman by P.D. James
Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn
Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls
Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux
Dark Fire by C.J. Sansom
(edited for touchstone) My favorite, which I just read this year, was Paul theroux's Dark Star Safari, overland from Cairo to Capetown. Others I liked were Greg Mortenson's Three Cups of Tea, and Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard ... Fables Choisies II
853--Italian fiction: The Betrothed
910--Geography & travel: From the Field
916--Africa: Dark Star Safari
917--North America: Day Trips from Houston
930--History of the ancient world: The Histories
936--History of the ancient world; Europe ...
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