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A review by sreddous
The Best American Travel Writing 2008 by Anthony Bourdain, Jason Wilson
4.0
This is an interesting collection of stories that go to a nice diverse range of places. It's lovely to get a little blurb from Anthony Bourdain (coincidentally, I purchased and read this book the month that he died), and then these stories range from more-educational, to funny, to somber.
If anything, I think these stories feel... a bit "temporary," as in, the framing of too many of them in my opinion are, like, "I visited this place." I get that this is a book about travel (implying traveling, not moving somewhere permanently), but it means that we get stories that tell us things like, "Wow, China sure is changing fast," and ... I'd like to know more about architecture! Or interactions with people who are living among that change! I personally like a lot of descriptive language with my travel books (a reason why I love Anthony himself so much!!) so I think I wish a lot of these stories were MORE padded-out.
But, in any case, this is a neat collection. A cool peek into a bunch of different places.
If anything, I think these stories feel... a bit "temporary," as in, the framing of too many of them in my opinion are, like, "I visited this place." I get that this is a book about travel (implying traveling, not moving somewhere permanently), but it means that we get stories that tell us things like, "Wow, China sure is changing fast," and ... I'd like to know more about architecture! Or interactions with people who are living among that change! I personally like a lot of descriptive language with my travel books (a reason why I love Anthony himself so much!!) so I think I wish a lot of these stories were MORE padded-out.
But, in any case, this is a neat collection. A cool peek into a bunch of different places.