Negative Positive
Title: The book you get after a born stylist has risked his life.
Review: I read Facing the Congo several months ago, and finished it within three days, a rare thing for me, someone who sets a high bar for the style of what he reads. The story itself, of Tayler's trip with a local guide down one of the deepest, widest and most violent rivers in possibly the world's most dangerous country, guarantees interest, but it is his honesty about his reasons for taking the trip, and his varied and surprising writing, that make it a joy to read. One moment that stuck out for me is when Tayler and his guide are camping in the brush on the bank of the Congo, which is so wide and deep it seems to have tides, and in the black of night a storm breaks out and the river "turns into a violent negative of itself" when lightning strikes. There are dozens of such moments and but reading them without the book will not do them justice.I read a lot of travelogues, and this is one of my favorites.
Is the review positive or negative? 