World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain
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Web ID: 11773147Traveling to the Other Side
He had enough of traveling the world.
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Anthony Bourdain doesn’t disappoint.
Great read! Purchased for a family member for Christmas .
Charismatic
After I had purchased this book, I was eager and anxious to start reading it. Anthony Bourdain is a very charismatic writer and they way he spoke on several of the TV programs he was in: No Reservations, A Cooks Tour and Parts Unknown, really comes out in the book. His love of food, traveling, and people are openly shown in the book with excerpts of what he said in the TV programs that he starred in about his travels eating around the world. I miss his writing very much and this is only a tear jerker for me when I read it.
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An affront to Bourdain
If Tony was alive, he would surely have nixed this crass commercialization of his good name. He was a brilliant traveler, narrator and writer and this book does not do him justice. It was marketed as "by" Tony, but truth is it was not. It rather reminded me of the episode when Tony traveled to Sicily and a rigged octopus "fishing" expedition, the organizer threw dead octopuses in the ocean for Tony to "catch," left him with a bad taste in his mouth. This, too, was equally "fishy."
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Not what I was expecting
I really wanted to love this book, but I didn't. This is more of a where did Tony stay, eat, how to get around, and what to do in each country. I'm really not sure who the target audience is. It may be a nice book to give someone who loved Anthony Bourdain's series, but it doesn't have his normal tone. Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the opportunity to review this book.
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No one like him
It's hard not to hear him. I still want hear his snarky remarks, his reverence for ingredients, his passion for reaching out beyond borders. This book is the closest we will get to doing that again. It was to be a project completed with the Laurie Woolever, but became hers to carry alone. While it can be jarring to juxtapose the lyrical words or Bourdain with the utilitarian voice Woolever, the book does convey a sense of place with the information required. This is a book I would have loved to have seen in full blossom, but that was not mean to be. I commend Ms. Woolever for a fine job in presenting the love of travel, people and food that was the core of Anthony Bordain. My thanks to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC of "world Travel" in exchange for my honest review.
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A grand feast and Bourdain legacy
In the foreword, Laurie Woolever discusses the one and only planning meeting she and Bourdain were to have to set up the format and content of a new book- one year before Tony’s death. As you travel back in time, sharing the stories of Bourdain’s world wide culinary and other escapades with his crew, friends, chefs and brother, his words are bolded - swooning, wisecracking, praising, irreverent words you would probably recognize anyway as only his. These destination reviews are small bites, not a meal, but taken as a whole, Laurie Woolever has brought it all together as a grand feast and Bourdain legacy. It’s a travel taste of how, where, when, why, what and who. He did his research, traveled, told us what it was all about, and left it up to us.
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A disappointment to Bourdain's memory
I preordered this book months before it was released as I was eager to read some of Anthony Bourdain's last written words for the world to read. After all, the book was marketed as being completed by his assistant Woolever as he was unable to finish it. However, when the book arrived I learned in the introduction that Bourdain in fact did not write a single word in this book; it was a mere idea shared with his assistant prior to his death. This irreverent travel guide isn't so irreverent. The only direct contribution from Bourdain is any quote he said regarding a specific country which..... will sound familiar to you if you've already watched his shows. I'm doubtful that Bourdain would have approved of this Yelp style travel guide. Based on his television personality and other writings, I expected a guide which encouraged free spirited travel- not what major airports are in which city.
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