Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
The Great Railway Bazaar
Theroux comes across almost as a parody of a grumpy old man; age may have made him more reflective, but it has clearly failed to make him more tolerant.
Books Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
- Author
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Paul Theroux
- Year
- 2008
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
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After reading the auto-hagiography of the Turkmen leader Niyazov, Theroux summarizes it as “pages and pages … most of it self-reverential.” He could be writing a press release for his own book.
Jason Webster
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Theroux seems rather disenchanted with the kind of personality his first book did so much to encourage. The traveler’s worst nightmare, he writes, isn’t the secret police or malaria “but rather the prospect of meeting another traveler.”
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