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I know people often come to the "other caminos" (i.e. not the Camino Frances) after having first walked a camino or two. I wonder if it is the same for books about the other caminos.Well worth reading. I think one would relate to it more after having first walked a camino, or two.
I chose to buy it as an actual book and am still waiting for it to arrive. I will stick to Kindle in future!I have just finished reading it (last night), for the second time! Kindle edition.
Excellent writing.
Well worth reading. I think one would relate to it more after having first walked a camino, or two.
I like the way she often brings in a Spanish word or phrase, but neatly adds the English translation.
I wanted to like this book, but could not get into it. From the start there was an undercurrent of an attitude I did not care for. She failed to compel me to continue reading, but I persevered. I, too, lost her completely at the end when her holier-than-thou attitude really showed itself. I came to dislike Alisa - don't want to share a cafe con leche with her or even talk to her along the way if we met. Too self-righteous. Absolutely not what the Camino I experienced is about or anything like the people I met. Deleted it from my Kindle. There are so many much, much better Camino books available. How did this lame tome even get selected?At the end of her book, she mentions the “new age wannabes,” in Santiago. That haughty attitude was the final straw for me; Looking down on others while writing hifalutin stuff about the magnitude of the challenge she was taking on, the path less traveled, the weight of the sins that she was shouldering ... and then offering lame excuses for taking lifts in cyclists' support vans and other vehicles.
Och ... Don't be like that.How did this lame tome even get selected?
I have just started this as it only arrived on Friday. I disliked the previous one (Walk in a Relaxed Manner) quite intensely at times but it clearly clicked with a lot of other people.I wanted to like this book, but could not get into it. From the start there was an undercurrent of an attitude I did not care for. She failed to compel me to continue reading, but I persevered. I, too, lost her completely at the end when her holier-than-thou attitude really showed itself. I came to dislike Alisa - don't want to share a cafe con leche with her or even talk to her along the way if we met. Too self-righteous. Absolutely not what the Camino I experienced is about or anything like the people I met. Deleted it from my Kindle. There are so many much, much better Camino books available. How did this lame tome even get selected?
Me too, and thank you @gns for writing my thoughts almost exactly! I think I started this book once before, but abandoned it before too long. In service of the Book Club, I finished it this time.I finished this a couple of days ago and have been mulling over my response to it.
there were was no point where my memory was lit up by the description
Yes, I had some trouble feeling her remarkable "duende" and I got tired of trying to figure out "palimpsesto." Mostly I was distracted by trying to pronounce and spell it.I think this may be because the descriptions are always very self-centred. We don't get to enjoy any place or experience without a strong overlay of the author's specialness.
Amen!Come back Sister Rupp. All is forgiven.
The copy that I was loaned didn't have the postscript, and I don't intend to buy a copy. Can you write a spoiler in this thread to let me know what it was about? (Use the "spoiler" option in the menu to protect the sensitive eyes of the folks who want to read it for themselves).I actually found the postscript more interesting than much of the book
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