Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780241142530
ISBN: 0241142539
Label: Hamish Hamilton
Manufacturer: Hamish Hamilton
Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: September 04, 2008
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Studio: Hamish Hamilton

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Rating: - As tedious as a rail journey to Macclesfield
I have enjoyed Theroux's books of his other rail journeys, particularly Black Star Safari but this one left me cold and bored. There's little or nothing in this book that hasn't been said before and you will get neither a sense for a country nor will you learn anything particularly new.

Apologies to Macclesfield, by the way

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Rating: - A new twist on the old formula
Theroux usually sticks to a formula that has worked well in the past, since he managed his first blockbuster with The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia (Penguin Modern Classics): go to someplace, look around, tread the untrodden path, do some witty observations, and carefully hide your own feelings, writing what looks like a intimate journal, but is really not.
Here, however, revisiting his 70's trip to Asia, also revisits his own feelings when he wrote about that trip and recounts ... Read More

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Rating: - A Writer Reflects on His Life and Humanity by Revisting His Past

If you want a book about how to travel by train, skip this one.

If you want a book about what you'll discover about yourself if you revisit old haunts, you may find this book intriguing enough to propel you back to your former hangouts and to review your memories . . . both painful and pleasant.

If you enjoy literary pilgrimages, you'll enjoy several entertaining moments.

If you want keen insights into nations you haven't visited, you won't find enough ... Read More

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Rating: - An intelligently written set of cliches
Reading 'Ghost Train to the Eastern Star' is to be transported immediately into the presence of a master of his craft. Perhaps one of the greatest travel writers alive, Paul Theroux revisits the journey he took through Europe and Asia 33 years ago, musing along the way on how both he, and the countries he travels through, have altered over the years.
But where his writing is undeniably engaging, especially when he relates his talks with fellow authors he meets along the way, the conclusions he draws ... Read More

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Rating: - A master at the height of his powers
Ever since I accidentally came across his work as a teenager in the mid-1990s, picking up a copy of his novel `My Other Life' at a book sale and being immediately drawn to its ambition and clarity of prose, Paul Theroux has been a hero of mine. His work has been an inspiration as I made my own way as an author and journalist, simultaneously delighting and depressing me - the former because he is so good, the latter because I doubt I will ever match his talent. Like a literary groupie I have read his every ... Read More

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