false 130516 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171993787m/130516.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171993787s/130516.jpg 130516 8 125692 2005 Blinding Light: A Novel total:126|5:7|4:24|3:44|2:30|1:21| 126 344 190 33 9599 3.69 8389 1157 45460403 1008236 742700 0618418865 9780618418862 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177923043m/742700.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177923043s/742700.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/742700.Blinding_Light_A_Novel 3.00 1 Steadman becomes addicted to the drug and the insights it provides, only to have them desert him, along with his sight. Will he regain his vision? His visions? Or will he forgo the world of his imagining and his ambition?
As Theroux leads us toward the answers, he makes fresh magic out of the venerable intertwined themes of sight and insight. He also offers incisive, sometimes hilarious takes on the manifold ironies of travel, of trespass and trangession, and of the trappings of the writer's life—from the fear of the blank page to the unexpected challenges of the book tour.]]> 2005 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:33:50 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:33:50 -0800 2009 Theroux's 26 books should eliminate him as the basis for Blinding Light's blocked protagonist Slade Steadman, yet critics still compare the protagonist and his creator. Theroux and Steadman do share an eye for withering details, an intellectual interest in the nature of sexuality, fame, and the act ...

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I love his travel books, and while I don't feel as enthusiastic about "Blinding Light", it is a good book.
It's a story about a writer in the pursuit of, well, writing. Becoming blind via a drug, he sudd...more...]]> 28269099 316512 130508 0771085788 9780771085789 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171993772m/130508.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171993772s/130508.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/130508.Blinding_Light 1.60 5
Slade Steadman is the ultimate one-book wonder. His lone opus, published twenty years ago, was a cult classic about his travels through dozens of countries without benefit of passport. With his soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend in tow, he sets out for Ecuador’s easternmost jungle in search of a rare hallucinogenic drug and what he hopes will be the cure for his writer’s block.

But his world is altered profoundly when he becomes addicted to the drug and the insights it provides, only to have them desert him, along with his sight. Will he regain his vision? His visions? Or will he forgo the world of his imagining and his ambition? As Theroux leads us toward the answers, he makes fresh magic out of the venerable, intertwined themes of sight and insight. He also offers incisive, sometimes hilarious takes on the manifold ironies of travel and the trappings of the writer’s life — from the fear of the blank page to the unexpected challenges of the book tour.]]> 2005 0 0 false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 10:49:36 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 07 05:48:30 -0700 2008 Blinding Light to read his voice. I think I would have enjoyed this book much more and finished it if it were not for two things:
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And also so much repetition, at one stage i seriously thought i was...more...]]> 50547133 244088 130516 0618711961 9780618711963 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171993787m/130516.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171993787s/130516.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/130516.Blinding_Light_A_Novel 2.73 126 2005 0 0 false Thu Mar 26 15:14:05 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 15:14:34 -0700 2009 3737705 233611 130516 0618711961 9780618711963 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171993787m/130516.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171993787s/130516.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/130516.Blinding_Light_A_Novel 2.73 126 2005 3 0 false Sun Jul 29 07:00:38 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 02:41:10 -0800 2009 more...]]> 74300034 1352059 130516 0618711961 9780618711963 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171993787m/130516.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171993787s/130516.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/130516.Blinding_Light_A_Novel 2.73 126 2005 4 0 false Mon Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Oct 12 13:12:37 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 16 07:44:56 -0800 2009 33133769 1045084 130516 0618711961 9780618711963 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171993787m/130516.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171993787s/130516.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/130516.Blinding_Light_A_Novel 2.73 126 2005 2 0 false Wed Sep 17 18:51:44 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 18:54:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 19186706 133166 130516 0618711961 9780618711963 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171993787m/130516.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171993787s/130516.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/130516.Blinding_Light_A_Novel 2.73 126 2005 4 0 false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 07:10:55 -0700 2008 Wed May 21 09:59:26 -0700 2008
i really liked the first part of this book. towards the second half it started to get both predictable and weird. everything that happened that wasn't predictable was downright w...]]> 6141783 338831 130516 0618711961 9780618711963 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171993787m/130516.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171993787s/130516.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/130516.Blinding_Light_A_Novel 2.73 126 2005 4 0 false Thu Sep 13 07:27:58 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 18 18:41:11 -0800 2007 4929669 17642 130516 0618711961 9780618711963 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171993787m/130516.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171993787s/130516.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/130516.Blinding_Light_A_Novel 2.73 126 2005 0 0 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 22 06:57:32 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 24 06:24:28 -0700 2007 29521840 1035300 130516 0618711961 9780618711963 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171993787m/130516.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171993787s/130516.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/130516.Blinding_Light_A_Novel 2.73 126 2005 3 0 false Thu Aug 07 10:15:57 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 07 10:17:26 -0700 2008 21590201 182589 130516 0618711961 9780618711963 28 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171993787m/130516.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171993787s/130516.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/130516.Blinding_Light_A_Novel 2.73 126 2005 1 0 false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun May 04 16:06:24 -0700 2008 Sun May 04 16:06:33 -0700 2008 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=130516