(Auto)Biographies and Memoirs

Not Afraid · 01-14-2007, 04:11 PM

In this category, I read mostly travel memoirs. Bill Bryson and Paul Theroux always tell a good story and even Peter Mayle can be fun if I'm in a French sort of mood. For some reason, I stopped reading other forms of memoirs abd autobiographies. I think Anais Nin was the last diary I actually read (and that was ages ago). I do have a copy of Marly and Me hanging out by the bedside, but I'm sort of afraid to read it.

I've gotten myself through a few emotionally fragile author's memoirs in the past and usually end up wanting to slap the author for ruining what would otherwise be a good read. Gary Paul Nabhan's "Songbirds, Truffles and Wolves" is a prime example.

3894 · 01-14-2007, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Not Afraid

In this category, I read mostly travel memoirs. Bill Bryson and Paul Theroux always tell a good story

I've only read Theroux's Riding The Red Rooster about the trans-Siberian railroad to China. I was suffering nausea 24/7 and the skies were gray day after day at the time. The book really brightened my life.

Just thought of another: Roald Dahl's Flying Solo. Man, the writing chops of that guy ... I think I've read the book probably three times, I loved it so much.

01-14-2007, 04:11 PM	#1
Not Afraid HI! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 17,108	In this category, I read mostly travel memoirs. Bill Bryson and Paul Theroux always tell a good story and even Peter Mayle can be fun if I'm in a French sort of mood. For some reason, I stopped reading other forms of memoirs abd autobiographies. I think Anais Nin was the last diary I actually read (and that was ages ago). I do have a copy of Marly and Me hanging out by the bedside, but I'm sort of afraid to read it. I've gotten myself through a few emotionally fragile author's memoirs in the past and usually end up wanting to slap the author for ruining what would otherwise be a good read. Gary Paul Nabhan's "Songbirds, Truffles and Wolves" is a prime example.
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