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    <body><![CDATA[I started out really enjoying this book with its colorful locale and offbeat characters. The protagonist is a stranger coming to grips with a strange land--a middle-aged writer from the mainland who leaves behind his family and old life to start over in obscurity in Hawaii and ends up managing a sec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8148586">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love reading Theroux's fiction and non-fiction because they both manage to carry his totally un-PC observations of human nature and culture without being overtly offensive.  I picked up Hotel Honolulu in anticipation of my upcoming move to the island.  Even though it is fiction, I couldn't help bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57841123">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book because it was one of a few recommended in a Lonely Planet guide to Oahu intended to give an accurate flavor of life in Hawaii.  That it did offer. I enjoyed the book, which was the story of a writer who in his fifties found himself managing a mid-market high rise in Waikiki mostly ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24549959">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, I have yet to finish this book.  (I have a horrible tendency to read 2-4 books simultaneously.  No wonder I retain so little about these books that I read for pleasure.  Oops.)  However, I'm close--only 100 pages from the end.  <br/><br/>Thus far, I've really enjoyed this book.  It's a fast ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6336049">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is hard to put down because the writing is excellent and the stories are captivating in their weirdness and irony. It is also a difficult book to read all at once because it's morbid, the characters are unhappy or meet unhappy ends, and the narrator seems uncomfortably voyeuristic in his o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63582104">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked Theroux's Dark Star Safari.  Reading that book prompted me to pick up more of his stuff.  This book is a little dark and satirical - there is no denying that Paul can write (I get to call him Paul since my name is also Paul).  <br/><br/>It's not very uplifting or cheery, but you wil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69761307">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel is more of a collection of short stories about the guests, residents, and workers at the Hotel Honolulu where the narrator works as a resident manager.  Athough the stories range from funny to tragic, there is an emphasis on sexual exploitation that got pretty old.  The best stories revol...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46270431">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A loose account of life in a small hotel along Waikiki by an author who has stopped writing and finds a new career as hotel manager. I enjoyed the glimpses of Hawaiian life..language, expressions, relations to tourists, etc. but it was also fairly crude. Only for someone wanting to get a feel for Ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78666934">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this when I was in Hawaii and read it on the plane home. It kind of disillusioned me, as it is largely about the dregs of Hawaiian society, and I was coming off a ten days of beach bliss. It was an ok read, but not good enough to read anything else by this author (is there even anything els...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61249016">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The nattator, David, lives in a cheap hotel in Honolulu. The parade of hotel guests, friends, employees and family are the whole story. Some very bizarre happenings and stories.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A (weak at times) 3.<br/>More a collection of linked short stories, often sexual (not necessarily sensual). Some great characters, especially Buddy, and situations. But somehow the sum of the parts doesn't form a satisfactory whole.<br/>Very well read by George Guidall.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first intro to Paul Theroux . . . a good, fast read about a bunch of freaks who hang at a Hawaii hotel]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[UPDATE: Finished this book a while ago and I still think about it every once in a while.  Like I said before, I can really relate to how he describes Honolulu - which was both comforting and unsettling.  I'm definitely going to give his other books a try.<br/><br/>I'm about 100 pages into this boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38630795">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[before this i'd only read theroux on africa and as a travel writer.  i like him even more here - he is such a voyeur of ugly intimacies, engaged with experience in ways that are sometimes uncomfortable.  i read some reviews of this that referred to it as hilarious and comic; this is perhaps true but...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9897131">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[series of interesting vignettes about an unnamed hotel manager of a less than 5 star hotel in honolulu.  enjoyed the tales of madame ma and her son/lover chip and lover amo, as well as buddy hamstra's larger than life character, and royce lionberg's infatuation with buddy's relative rain.  not much ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11278222">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[awesome read on vacation in Hawaii]]></body>
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