How Not To Avoid Jet Lag other tales of travel madness edition by Joshua Samuel Brown David Lee Ingersoll Humor Entertainment eBooks
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What's the road-toasted travel writer to do after leaving the road behind?
Why not put together a series of insights and observations from Belize to Shangrila, have each illustrated lovingly with a one-panel cartoon and put together a collection of short stories with a memorable yet slightly unwieldy title?
How Not to Avoid Jet Lag & other tales of travel madness by Lonely Planet Author Joshua Samuel Brown consists of nineteen stories ranging from new journalism and creative non-fiction to surreal dreamscape and exotic hallucination.
"I've often thought that guidebook writing attracts the mad, the bad and the slightly crazed. If he didn't start that way – perhaps a pre-writing career as a bike messenger helped – his years on the road have certainly contributed to Joshua’s off-kilter take on the world." - Tony Wheeler, Lonely Planet Co-founder.
Among the off-kilter tales in How Not to Avoid Jet Lag & other tales of travel madness
My Parents Are Little People, a story of the bizarre lengths a travel writer will go in pursuit of a hotel review;
Supper in Uyghurville, a gritty tale of menace, drugs and journalism from Beijing's darkest hutong;
The Milky Teat of Serendipity, a hallucinatory flight of fancy featuring a Singaporean Prime Minister, a Taiwanese president, and a wandering goat-milk salesgirl;
The Worst Place in the World, strong contender for the 2015's "travel story most likely to garner a cease and desist letter from Ikea" award.
How Not to Avoid Jet Lag & other tales of travel madness Nineteen stories, observations, and exotic hallucinations from the increasingly demented mind of Travel Writer Joshua Samuel Brown, with illustrations by David Lee Ingersoll.
How Not To Avoid Jet Lag other tales of travel madness edition by Joshua Samuel Brown David Lee Ingersoll Humor Entertainment eBooks
Sure, we all have travel stories...but Brown's are just in another league of hilarious and weird! It's a treat to read these all together--it's sort of like sitting around at a hostel late one night, listening to people swap tales from the world. Except this is all in Brown's wild voice, which is lively and natural.Not every story is a singular gem, but many of them have stuck with me, either because they describe something so wondrous (a dream sequence about a fantastical South American country and its train system; a little Calvino-ish) or because they capture a certain what-the-hell-just-happened feeling that's so familiar from traveling...even if the thing in particular that happened has never happened to me. E.g., random Englishman appears and tells a dirty joke, then keeps walking. Whaaaa? But, right, things like that happen, and all you can do is write it down and hope it makes a little more sense some day.
Thanks, JSB, for writing it all down!
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How Not To Avoid Jet Lag other tales of travel madness edition by Joshua Samuel Brown David Lee Ingersoll Humor Entertainment eBooks Reviews
When I read the carefully anonymous prose of a travel guide, I always wonder what the writers of these bland signposts were really thinking. Occasionally one of them will break silence and fortunately for readers who love dark humor and careful observation, one of them is Joshua Samuel Brown in How Not to Avoid Jet Lag.
Brown has been a Lonely Planet writer for decades. He's also a seasoned expat who lived long enough in Taiwan to teach himself to become fluent in Mandarin. His travels have taken him from Beijing to Belize, where his peculiar and quirky sense of adventure have often thrown him right over the edge. And now he's taking us along with him in a collection of travel stories that bring to mind Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Whether he's suffering from gout in Beijing, where he hobbles down a staircase carrying a bucket full of broken glass and bloody rags, or scoring hash from the Uighurs in that same city, or creatively lying to hotel P.R. people about the accommodation needs of differing sets of mythical relatives ("Either of 'em get in this bathtub you'll need a crane to hoist 'em out. You'd be better off just bringing someone in here to hose 'em down once a day," he says of his morbidly obese, imaginary relatives, and of the travel difficulties faced by his parents whom he mendaciously claims are little people, he confides "People pick them up and hug them."), Brown breaks new ground in travel literature.
And yet he provides useful information in spite of himself. His title essay is a fine meditation on the peculiar joys of jet lag and his fantasy of living in the Hong Kong airport with no way out gives tips on how saner travelers might choose to spend a layover. An IMAX theater? Really?
Illustrations in a book of essays are often a dubious enhancement but Brown got lucky. David Lee Ingersoll is a kinder, gentler incarnation of Ralph Steadman and his black and white line drawings are the perfect complement to Brown's sardonic tales of travel noir.
Whether you embrace or avoid jet lag, this book is the one to accompany you as plane reading on your next flight. Just don't let your laughter keep other passengers awake as you travel with one of the most original minds in the business.
I love travelogues, stories and adventures in other countries. As a frequent world traveler it's always fun to see others perceptions. I just couldn't get into this book. The IKEA chapter kinda put me over the edge. It's as if Josh ran out of material. Kinda like when Fonzy jumped the shark. Weird read and just not that funny.
Hysterical and in some ways informative, if you go for that kind of information. Personally, I loved the last two pieces. When a good book ends with really powerful last words, it is now a terrific read. The artwork also tickled my funny bone. Great book to read on
a short plane trip. But not while you are the navigator.
I was really impressed by How Not to Avoid Jet Lag. On one hand it has a manic energy as the author careens through a variety of misadventures. On the other hand it is shows evidence of thoughtfulness and a sense of focus that offers insights and revelations. It is funny and touching by turns. One comes to feel that the speakers of these essays and stories are that kind of friend you wish would always come through town like a sudden gift. Funny--hysterically so--but also allows seasoned travelers a sense of the absurd that is so much a part of the traveler's life. But one can also live vicariously through the eyes of the these stories and essays and come to know new lands, see new vistas. I recommend it!
For the full review http//www.savvygirltravel.com/how-not-to-avoid-jet-lag-other-tales-of-travel-madness-by-joshua-samuel-brown/
The unique aspect of How Not to Avoid Jet Lag… is the almost psychedelic feel to several of the narratives without clarification of what’s real and what’s not. For instance, in the story “The Worst Place in the World”, the author describes a trip to IKEA as “Distortion of the time/space continuum coupled with an overwhelming sense of despair as everyday items take on strange, menacing dimensions and reality becomes a grotesquely exaggerated nightmare from which only the passage of time offers release.” His “reality” becomes progressively more distorted and reminiscent of scenes from Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Other stories, such as “Supper in Uyghurville” (a trek into the Muslim ghettos of Beijing in search of hashish) and “Blood and Condiment” (a close shave with the authorities while covered in blood and soy sauce), are grounded by facts and description, but their events are so bizarre the reader wonders how they could have happened in actual real life. But then, truth is stranger than fiction, amiright?
Sure, we all have travel stories...but Brown's are just in another league of hilarious and weird! It's a treat to read these all together--it's sort of like sitting around at a hostel late one night, listening to people swap tales from the world. Except this is all in Brown's wild voice, which is lively and natural.
Not every story is a singular gem, but many of them have stuck with me, either because they describe something so wondrous (a dream sequence about a fantastical South American country and its train system; a little Calvino-ish) or because they capture a certain what-the-hell-just-happened feeling that's so familiar from traveling...even if the thing in particular that happened has never happened to me. E.g., random Englishman appears and tells a dirty joke, then keeps walking. Whaaaa? But, right, things like that happen, and all you can do is write it down and hope it makes a little more sense some day.
Thanks, JSB, for writing it all down!
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