Negative Positive
Title: Pretentious And Ultimately A Bore
Review: Sorry to disagree with so many here but I really wanted to enjoy this. I've read other works by the author that I thought were very good and I believe he is a very talented and thoughtful writer.In this book his reflections on his travels seemed joyless and trite. His interpretations of the artists and what they were conveying through their work didn't always seem to ring true to me. I kept reading hoping this would get better but I was disappointed. When he describes places he visits the people who inhabit them are strangely absent from his reflections. As a frequent solo traveler I believe you don't know a place unless you know at least something of it's people but the author seems to avoid human contact as much as possible to indulge in his intellectual fantasies about the meaning of the most trivial details. I think traveling with him would be a bore. Sorry but in my opinion this is a classic case of missing the forest for the trees.
Is the review positive or negative? 