Roger Rapoport

I love travel and have had a few bad experiences, i.e. robbed by Gypsies in Dublin, two day flight delay in Iceland, pursued by a coconut carving junkie in Tobago, but nothing compares to the misadventures of these writers. Other reviewers have complained that the writing is uneven, but that’s ok. It’s like meeting strangers in a bar in a foreign country who are telling you the “Guess what happened to us” story. The tales are thrilling and you can suffer vicariously with those who have been stranded in war zones, assaulted by orangutans, had falling outs with their travel companions, and been forced to bribe border guards. It makes missed flights and lost luggage look like a cakewalk. Enjoy from the safety of your armchair or throw it in your bag as you hike the Andes.… (más)

A critical biography of Moore, centering on his brilliance as well as his hypocrisy (like living the high life while purporting to be a man of the people and the working class). Moore is a rabble-rouser, an actor, a filmmaker, a polemicist, a creative force. The author objects to the, well, sleight of hand that Moore employs in his performances and projects, but Moore uses tricks of rhetoric in service of the left, and the good of the many. Certainly we've had enough rhetorical tricks from the right; Michael Moore is the antidote, badly needed.… (más)