Brenda B

This book is maybe interesting as a historical document but the diary is badly edited and extremely repetitive...I suppose it still attracts readers for the story of a woman with a bad life story and its shock value...but from a literary perspective, it hasnt withstood the test of time.

Really? A Pulitzer? We follow...in a very stereotypical fashion, a priveliged white guy's journey around the world, in what is supposed to be tragedy/comedy, but is really just another travel novel full of clichés of the places he visits (ie the places the author has visited, yawn yawn) and a supposed heartbreak...sounds like how many other novels, films, etc? Bad writing, unmemorable characters..I wish I had not read through to the end...I did not find any of it tragic, or funny. There are many great books out there, but this one is not one. The worst part was the Hollywood ending.