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[QUOTE="sillydoll, post: 59272, member: 8"] Anyone who has never read a book about the Camino will find a smorgasboard of Camino stories out there. To me, they fall into four main categories. 1) The rather mundane, day-to-day accounts, eating bocadillos, sleeping in crowded dorms etc etc, with little information of the sights or the history of the Camino. These become very boring if you happen to read more than one in the same vein. 2)The 'life-changing, inspirational, self help" type story usually filled with deep inner searching and personal revelations. The writer often has a special reason for walking the camino and we know that the pages will be filled with the writer's philosophies and religion (or lack thereof). Because we all share a commonality of emotions and experiences this kind of book seems more interesting and relevant if it is written by someone famous - or infamous! - than when it is written by Joe Soap. (Would be as interested in watching the Martin Sheen movie 'The Way' if it was made by an amateur film maker with unknown actors?) 3) The angst ridden, whinging and comlpaining saga that often includes a dash of anti-religion and xenophobia (pushy Americans, aggressive Germans, hauty French, loud Spanish). This is my least favourite book and I feel that it could be set on a walk through the writer's neighbourhood for all they learn about the Camino. 4) The new age, esoteric story - you know, the ones that are trying to emulate Shirely Maclaine and Paulo Coehlo. Boring!!! There is one more but because there are so few of these, I don't give them their own category, and this is the 'Comedic Camino' such as Tim Moore and his donkey. Parts were very funny; he is a good writer, but the relentless humour and satire became a bit tedious. On a Travel Writer's blog one person suggested that 'Tim Moore merely used the Camino as a hitching post to hang his jokes onto." (Hape Kerkeling's book falls into this category but his changed towards the end and wasn't so funny anymore!) [/QUOTE]
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