There's No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure
by Doug Lansky (Editor)
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The perfect trip, where nothing goes wrong, is surely not the memorable trip, which is whereeverything goes wrong and one lives to tell the tale -- and laugh about it. This collection captures the wackiest and most bizarre experiences of well-known writers whose travels have taken a detour. Stories include Nigel Barley escorting a monkey to the movies in Cameroon, Dave Barry vainly trying to learn more Japanese than how to order a beer, Alan Zweible high-tailing it to a nudist camp, Donna show more Marazzo bravely attempting to use a high-tech Italian toilet, and Richard Sterling feasting on deep-fried potato bugs in Burma. There are even practical tips here too; readers can surely learn from Mary Roach, who discovers that utilizing an Antarctic ice-sheet outhouse at the very moment a seal chooses to use its opening as a blowhole may not be the best way to start the day. show lessTags
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I have read this one before, but it was a great re-read. My favourite pieces are Dave Barry's on Japan, because sometimes learning Japan does feel like that--actually most of the Barry's and the Bryson. A great laugh.
Some stories are funnier than others but overall it makes a good travel read
Some pretty decent stories in here, and some that I thought fell pretty flat. But it certainly reinforced my desire to not travel to third world countries...
Half of this collection of short stories are great. The others not so much.
I just didn't find most of this very funny. It's hard to say why, but most of the anecdotes seemed dull.
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- Canonical title
- There's No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure
- Original publication date
- 1998
- Epigraph
- Humor is not a trick.
Humor is a presence in the world—
like grace—
and shines son everybody.
Garrison Keillor - Blurbers
- Barry, Dave
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- Genres
- Travel, Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 818.5402 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American miscellaneous writings in English 20th Century 1945-1999
- LCC
- PN6084 .T7 .T54 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Quotations English
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- 150,348
- Reviews
- 5
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- (3.22)
- Languages
- English
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- Paper
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- 2
- UPCs
- 1
- ASINs
- 1
