BrienC
Author of Camino Child
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Past: Francés, VDLP, Norte
2022: Portuguese
Rather than highjack an active thread, Highway of horror, I open this new thread and ask a question: What is your favorite Camino book?
Following my Camino, last summer, I read Hape Kerkeling’s, I’m Off Again, and enjoyed it.
During my Camino, I read The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho. Enjoyed it too.
Probably 15 years ago, I read Shirley MacLaine’s, The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit. That book was the beginning of my Camino.
Then I wrote my own book about the Camino, called Su Camino...
In the aforementioned thread, Kerkeling’s book is disparaged as “exaggerated” and inaccurate. He’s a comic and can’t be trusted, etc. MacLaine’s is regularly lambasted on this forum.
These books, and others, are in a category called, “creative non-fiction.” The “agreement” is that the story is real, at least from the writer’s perspective. Sure, it may lean more on creative than non-fiction. But it is for your reading pleasure—or not.
So, what is your favorite Camino book? And why, if you want to share.
Mine? Well, mine of course. Actually it would have to be The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho. Because of the time period: I like to imagine walking the Camino, or most anywhere in the world, before all the conveniences of today.
Cheers,
Following my Camino, last summer, I read Hape Kerkeling’s, I’m Off Again, and enjoyed it.
During my Camino, I read The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho. Enjoyed it too.
Probably 15 years ago, I read Shirley MacLaine’s, The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit. That book was the beginning of my Camino.
Then I wrote my own book about the Camino, called Su Camino...
In the aforementioned thread, Kerkeling’s book is disparaged as “exaggerated” and inaccurate. He’s a comic and can’t be trusted, etc. MacLaine’s is regularly lambasted on this forum.
These books, and others, are in a category called, “creative non-fiction.” The “agreement” is that the story is real, at least from the writer’s perspective. Sure, it may lean more on creative than non-fiction. But it is for your reading pleasure—or not.
So, what is your favorite Camino book? And why, if you want to share.
Mine? Well, mine of course. Actually it would have to be The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho. Because of the time period: I like to imagine walking the Camino, or most anywhere in the world, before all the conveniences of today.
Cheers,