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I just started The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux. I've read The Great Railway Bazaar and The Happy Isles of Oceania by him, and I loved them because of his attitude. I know lots of people are put off by Theroux's travel writing because he's a lot more negative than most travel authors, but I love his curmudgeonly attitude because it's a different attitude than most travel writers. That and I can't help but feel he does it a weird homage to the 19th century travelogues he often references. Anyhow, so far The Old Patagonian Express is more of the same, but with him traveling by train from Boston to Patagonia. I'm only about a hundred pages in, but it's pretty interesting to read his take on what was south of the border 30 years ago.
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