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A-Z of Hell: Ross Kemp s How Not to Travel the World
Ross Kemp's fascinating guide of the worst places in the world. Want to know where to discover the perfect sunset in Fiji? How about a tropical paradise in St Lucia, or one of the world’s beautiful natural wonders in the Alps? Well this is NOT the book for you. But if you want to know about meeting transvestite prostitutes in a South African prison, or being attacked for a can of tuna in the Congo, buying crack cocaine in a Venezuelan prison, or being chased by dogs in a haunted house in Belize, then look no further. Ross Kemp has visited the worst places in the world, and here they are in all their horror—in a handy A to Z format. This is not one hell of a travel guide. This is a travel guide to hell.
256 pages, Hardcover
First published October 24, 2013
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November 11, 2024
Ross Kemp clearly has lived an exciting life and been to some mad places. He is a great TV journalist and comes across as a likeable character, but what he is not is a great writer. Advertised as The Sunday Times Bestselling Author really some of these chapters feel like they are just fluffing out the book to give it some volume.
Each chapter flits from one country/story to the next with no real flow or chronology to it. This means you can duck into it at leisure like a series of short stories in a children’s book but I personally like a bit more structure.
These are a series of his mad experiences and adventures but you get the sense that it means more for him than the reader. It’s like someone telling you a story that’s not really hitting home and then following it up with ‘You really had to be there’
Some of it is excellent and you do feel quite present, but mostly it’s just a written version of an extra directors cut for some of the TV he has produced. An excellent insight into the hellishness of human existence in some places however this is just another celebrity financially capitalising on presumably excellent TV work with a book. As a stand alone piece of work it’s pretty lacklustre.
Each chapter flits from one country/story to the next with no real flow or chronology to it. This means you can duck into it at leisure like a series of short stories in a children’s book but I personally like a bit more structure.
These are a series of his mad experiences and adventures but you get the sense that it means more for him than the reader. It’s like someone telling you a story that’s not really hitting home and then following it up with ‘You really had to be there’
Some of it is excellent and you do feel quite present, but mostly it’s just a written version of an extra directors cut for some of the TV he has produced. An excellent insight into the hellishness of human existence in some places however this is just another celebrity financially capitalising on presumably excellent TV work with a book. As a stand alone piece of work it’s pretty lacklustre.
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