The Hotel Travel, Taipei Days

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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780975825600 ISBN: 0975825607 Label: Loroblonjo Publishing Manufacturer: Loroblonjo Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 444 Publication Date: 2007-04-09 Publisher: Loroblonjo Publishing Studio: Loroblonjo Publishing
Editorial Reviews: The Hotel Travel is a collection of traveler's tales about Western transients exploring contemporary Asia. Lives of inescapable Human Frailty. Mad Humor, Sexual Escapades, Drug Experimentation, Hopeless Passion and Physical Violence from their Dysfunctional Existence in the congested, neon-lit cities of the East. Each story is a surreal adventure unto itself. In total, they shape the tangible and intangible journeys of the disillusioned reporter, Sean Dinan.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Entertaining, evocative and alluring Comment: A great novel! Searingly honest and direct, it is obviously written from first hand experience of travel throughout Asia - variously bruising, exhilarating, shocking and funny. It is testimony to the capacity of humans to construct disaster and tragedy out of the times that should be the best of our lives. It contains scenes and events that will raise themselves again in your mind long after you have read the book. And it is not just an entertaining and evocative read. It is the perfect companion for travel around Asia, particularly to Taiwan. It evokes the experience of wandering through exotic locations, with every day full of unforeseen happenings, often taxing but always vivid. It tells you the things that the travel guides won't or can't. It will whet your appetite for travel and for living to the max while you travel. Customer Rating: Summary: A New Generation of Travel Writing Comment: The Hotel Travel is a breakthrough novel by Tony Akbar which heralds a new generation of travel writing. This concept of this Travel Novel is characterised by its raw personal passion. On one hand the book is a collection of grunge travellers tales. Irvine Welsh with a backpack if you like. The settings are the streets, markets, hostels and guest houses, bars and nightclubs in the congested, enervating cities of Calcutta, Taipei and Saigon and the places in between. The characters that inhabit these places are restless souls travelling through the backwaters and backstreets of Asia without a forward ticket or a particular destination. Their attitude is ambivalent and their humour black. Each of the stories describes one of their adventures. The suite of stories are linked by the journeys of Sean Dinan, a disillusioned journalist. I loved the intensity and brutal honesty of this great book. More Reviews