Title: This is one weird book.
Product review: Ok, I'll admit it.I enjoy arm chair travel books to places I would never,ever go to in real life. "No Mercy"-- about Lake Tele in the Congo-- seemed to fit the bill. Wrong. It's not that its badly written but...well, its more along the line of J. Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" then it is a travel book. Its full of angst, and sturn und drag, and soul searching, the author against nature, the author against himself (he carefully chronicles his brushes with madness...I mean, toward the end he was THIS close to falling off his perch, if you know what I mean.) A mental health professional who also enjoys travel books would doubtless enjoy this "Heart of Darkness" type mode, but for the ordinary arm chair traveler-- like your's truly-- forget it!
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