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Probably Should Have Just Stuck with Alice

The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux

March 23, 2023 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

CBR15Passport India The Elephanta Suite is a collection of three tales, each describing the encounter of an Anglo with India.  The first story is that of a retired British couple who stay longer than they intended, the second is of a Bostonian businessman who become a Jain monk, and the third is of an American college student who falls in love with an elephant.  Unfortunately, I was not a fan of the first two.  The retired couple were self-centered, and treated the Indians with whom […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: CBR15Passport, Elephants, India, paul theroux, Travel (but not enough), Westerners abroad

elderberrywine's CBR15 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: CBR15Passport, Elephants, India, paul theroux, Travel (but not enough), Westerners abroad ·
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Jungle fever

The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux

August 13, 2021 by The Book Omnivore Leave a Comment

Allie Fox is not your average guy. You can tell by the way he raves about the world and the people in it. At first you might think he’s just a little eccentric. After all, he does have some good points. But then you get to know him better and you realise he’s not just some harmless hippie whom you can humour for a minute or two, until you get tired of his ramblings. Fox is an inventor living in USA with his wife, two […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: paul theroux

The Book Omnivore's CBR13 Review No:49 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: paul theroux ·
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The Mosquito Coast – Paul Theroux (1981)

The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux

February 18, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The movie version of this novel came out when I was a kid and for whatever reason we watched it as a family when it was on tape. I am not saying my dad is the same as the dad in this book (played by Harrison Ford in the movie, and by Justin Theroux, nephew of the author Paul Theroux, in an upcoming series), but they have some similarities. The dad here is officious, and maybe brilliant, clearly intelligent, seemingly a dry-drunk, paranoid, racist, some […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: paul theroux, the mosquito coast

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:71 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: paul theroux, the mosquito coast ·
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“There is an English dream of a warm summer evening on a branch-line train”

June 4, 2018 by TheShitWizard Leave a Comment

I’ve had this sat on my kindle for the longest time – I read Mosquito Coast (and loved it) years ago, and so thought I’d give Theroux’s travel writing a go. Sat on a beach in Portwrinkle on a glorious day, a jaunt around the British coast seemed just the ticket. Having already lived in London for years by that point, Theroux decided to travel clockwise around the British coast as a way of getting to know the country better. Starting at the bottom of […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: non fiction, paul theroux, travel

TheShitWizard's CBR10 Review No:37 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: non fiction, paul theroux, travel ·
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