Lawrence Osborne





Lawrence Osborne

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Average rating: 3.46 · 658 ratings · 144 reviews · 13 distinct works · Similar authors
The Forgiven: A Novel
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions
The Accidental Connoisseur:...
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 194 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions
Bangkok Days
3.23 of 5 stars 3.23 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions
The Naked Tourist: In Searc...
3.37 of 5 stars 3.37 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions
American Normal: The Hidden...
3.06 of 5 stars 3.06 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions
The Poisoned Embrace: A Bri...
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions
Paris Dreambook: An Unconve...
2.91 of 5 stars 2.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions
The Wet and the Dry: Ventur...
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — expected publication 2013
Shangri-La
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3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
The Angelic Game
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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“For a long time I had wanted to take leave of Planet Tourism, to find one of those places that occasionally turn up in the middle pages of newspapers in far-flung cities, in which--we are told--a mad loner has been discovered who has lost all contact with the modern world. It seems inevitable that this desire will one day be listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association as Robinson Crusoe Syndrome.”
Lawrence Osborne

“There is nothing more exasperating than reading in contemporary guidebooks disparagements of places that are deemed to be "seedy." Do the writers not notice that such places are invariably crowded with people? When a neighborhood is described as "seedy" by some Lonely Planet prude, I immediately head there.”
Lawrence Osborne, The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall

“Sexual pessimism: The equation of sexual love outside the prerequisites of reproduction with death.”
Lawrence Osborne, The Poisoned Embrace: A Brief History of Sexual Pessimism

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