Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia Reviews

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2 Reviews For Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia

  • Guest 10th Sep 2008

    Reviewer rating: 0.5 stars


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    Good Points: Terrible.


    Bad Points: Very repetitive and boring.


    General comments: I hated this book, I love the travelogues but this book was just the worst book I have ever read in my life. I had to read the whole story but If i ever had to do this for fun it would have been put down at page 80.

  • DaleSearle Rank: Lance Corporal 31st May 2004

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia is a book that is best read lounging on a sun bed under a palm tree on a hot, sandy beach overseas. It describes the places and the people the author visited and met whilst travelling by various trains from London's Victoria Station across Europe and India to the Far East; and his subsequent return via Russia. Anyone who has lived as an expatriate in Africa, the Middle East or the Far East will readily identify characters and locati ...