Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road

I picked up Stuart Stevens' "Night Train to Turkistan" because both of the book-related websites I visit recommended it for me. I have no idea why. I made it about half-way through before I got so bored I gave it up.

Stevens' book details his travels through China along the Silk Road. He mostly carps and complains about the conditions of the hotels, conditions of the train, conditions of the roads... you get the general gist. He also seems to have a great dislike for every single person he encounters.

This is a good contender for one of the worst travel books I've ever read.

An unlikely journey across a cultural divide. Stevens' humor is infectious and it seems to infuse every mile they travel.

A contender for the title of worst travel book ever written on China, but there's intense competition for that title, and even if the field is narrowed to Chinese Central Asia, there's yet one worse still.

Good grief. This will cure you of any romantic ideas you might have of travel in China!

A journey through western China to Kashgar on the SIlk Road -- under ghastly and frustrating conditions that are better to read about than experience.