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Jun 2019
11:43am, 27 Jun 2019
43,407 posts
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Bintmcskint
I’ve just finished The Salt Path.
I’m glad I read it but I think my enjoyment was marred by the feeling that it was all a bit too neat and coincidence filled to be as true as is claimed.
About to commence Therese Raquin.
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Jun 2019
12:08pm, 27 Jun 2019
40,223 posts
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McGoohan
I feel a certain guilt here in that I've kind of murdered that book...
One thing I have thought about recently: both Laurie Lee and Patrick Leigh Fermor wrote their 'classic' travel tales years after the events described, decades in fact. Both were very young men when they set off and they were both in middle age when A Time of Gifts and As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning were written. Despite these being the giants of travel writing... they may well be taking as many liberties with the truth as The Salt Path. At least Raynor Winn was writing only three or four years after the event.
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Jun 2019
12:15pm, 27 Jun 2019
43,411 posts
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Bintmcskint
I had the same thought, McG.
Still it felt too perfect, I guess.
Don’t get me wrong, I did enjoy it! And I’m all for poetic licence.
I suppose the same criticism might be thrown at Wild by Cheryl Strayed but I loved that.
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Jun 2019
12:24pm, 27 Jun 2019
38,045 posts
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Diogenes
I think I might need to read it again with a different approach. Although I found some of it incredible, it didn't occur to me that it was overly enhanced, I just thought that some people live their lives in a very different way to me. The parts I remember getting irritated by were when she seemed to be trying way too hard to be a natural history writer.
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Jun 2019
8:13pm, 28 Jun 2019
43,423 posts
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Bintmcskint
The Tourist Office in Chamonix has this...
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Jun 2019
8:14pm, 28 Jun 2019
43,424 posts
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Bintmcskint
So when I arrived yesterday, I made a little addition
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Jun 2019
8:23pm, 28 Jun 2019
38,103 posts
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Diogenes
Le Chemin du Sel!
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Jun 2019
8:24pm, 28 Jun 2019
13,124 posts
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Serendippily
The Stendhal or the Sunday times bestseller
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Jun 2019
8:33pm, 28 Jun 2019
43,425 posts
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Bintmcskint
A chap was browsing them almost immediately after I put it there. He was clearly English as he picked up the only two English books there - The Salt Path and The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie.
He didn't take either.
I will check back before I leave to see if it's gone 
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Jun 2019
8:36pm, 28 Jun 2019
38,104 posts
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Diogenes
I have both of those!
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