Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer by Chuck Thompson. It's decently funny so far, if a bit sophomoric (e.g. author regales reader with details of Japanese colleagues participating in the Penis Olympics). Thompson's intention is to avoid glossy, happy ending vacation stories and he achieves this goal by sharing some of his most inappropriate anecdotes. I'm only at the fourth chapter but the running theme thus far is whores. Whores everywhere for the weary backpacker. It's all pretty rogue-ish, apart from the egregiously banal confessions sub-title. Check out Thompson's appearance on The Hour, where he tackles the subject of sucky travel writing.
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Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer by Chuck Thompson. It's decently funny so far, if a bit sophomoric (e.g. author regales reader with details of Japanese colleagues participating in the Penis Olympics). Thompson's intention is to avoid glossy, happy ending vacation stories and he achieves this goal by sharing some of his most inappropriate anecdotes. I'm only at the fourth chapter but the running theme thus far is whores. Whores everywhere for the weary backpacker. It's all pretty rogue-ish, apart from the egregiously banal confessions sub-title. Check out Thompson's appearance on The Hour, where he tackles the subject of sucky travel writing.
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