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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780394221519
Format: Import
ISBN: 0394221516
Label: Vintage Books
Manufacturer: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 1991
Publisher: Vintage Books
Sales Rank: 2860614
Studio: Vintage Books
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Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
This book tries hard to be poignant, but doesn't make it. Much too depressing, and not entertaining enough.
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A collection of travel writing, mainly excerpts from longer works, although a few are short essays, describing those trips that--well, did not seem quite so fun at the time, but make for great reading. I read this book as a primer and introduction to the writers therein, some of whom I plan to seek out later, including:
* Stuart Stevens--Reads like Mark Salzman, probably in part due to the fact that he traveled with Salzman.
* P. K. Page--Her bit on Australia was great--exactly ... Read More
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This anthology's title is off by one letter: it should be called Sad Trips, not Bad Trips. The phrase 'bad trips' (and especially the book's front cover description: "A sometimes terrifying, sometimes hilarious collection of writing on the perils of the road") suggests to me the journeys that are hell to live through but fun to look back on, like, say, the time I spent three days trapped in the Boise, Idaho airport with what seemed to be the entire population of the state of Idaho. Those are the kinds ... Read More
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This was a book I started, got bored with, and came back to later when the book pile was about exhausted. That should tell you something: most of the stories simply weren't too enthralling. I didn't notice a lot of humour; in fact, I found very little. When I came back to finish it, I liked it a little better but not too much. Most of the stories are too short to really satisfy.
On the positive side, quite the cast of authors has been assembled, and they can indeed write. The variety ... Read More
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Bad Trips is divided into various short stories by notoriously famous authors. Mamet, Geldof, Greene, and Updike, to name a few create very funny short essays of their unusual and sometimes precarious trips throughout the world. I would recommend this book to someone taking a cross-country trip for example from Seattle to Atlanta in a big van carrying unneccessary items on bald tires traveling through the winter months and sleeping in friends of friends houses while trying to use outdated maps. Anyone ... Read More
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