false hilarious so far. love the writing style. 1 2009-07-02T02:09:43-07:00 964760 2009-07-13T02:12:34-07:00 20 2009-07-02T02:09:43-07:00 2 0 false false Sat Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 02:09:25 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 01:40:26 -0700 2009
Although brief moments stood out in this book, I don't find him to be an intriguing person. He's a homebody from Iowa that seems to only enjoy himself when he is comfortable, when things are simple, and when there's CNN in every hotel room he goes to.

Most frustratingly, his broad generalizations of places and people in Europe based on a couple bad experiences lack any objectivity that an otherwise intelligent person might have. Everything sucked or everything was awesome.

His flashbacks to his time traveling with Katz were the fun parts, because they seemed the most real to me. But his traveling as a mature adult seemed to cater to a lowest common denominator of broad pop culture intelligence, reinforcing xenophobic stereotypes that the average American has of Europeans, most of which were dead wrong, but probably sell a lot of books.]]>