The world is getting smaller. Thanks to the Internet that unites people across the globe and airplanes that can make journeys in hours that once took years, virtually nowhere on earth in inaccessible. Mostly, that’s a good thing. But for world travelers, I’ve heard this is a real bummer. That everywhere they go, they’re surrounded by Guess jeans and McDonalds. That the terrain is basically spoiled by globalization and no place is unique anymore. But what if there were still a place, hidden away, unknown […]
Lord of the Flies meets Survivor, but with less Jeff Probst
The Beach arrived in my inbox from JB, he of Shantaram and The Brothers K and Edgar. (I’ve decided that people who give you books are the best kind of people.) Our protagonist is Richard, a twenty-something British traveller, drifting about southeast Asia with no real discernible purpose. On his first night in Bangkok, he shares a wall and a joint with another traveller, Mr. Duck, and in the morning, discovers Mr. Duck’s bloody body as well as a meticulously drawn map to a hidden […]
Oh, so there really is such a thing?
Yes, dear Meg, there is a tesseract. And I can’t remember what else I wrote for this post, but here’s the link to my review again.