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A review by linazu
A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East by Tiziano Terzani
3.0
I loved it, and I despised it.
This book is full of "romanticizing" of life. Likely I'll keep referring to it when I talk about slower living. About the fact that all the airports look the same and how taking the road or sea transport, we share something in common with everyone traveling - boredom. And how there's beauty in this.
Regarding cultures and people, my favorite little story was about tribal women selling goods and rejecting a much higher bill for two smaller ones - two must be worth more than just one, right?
It is a well-worth-a-read book, yet for me, it was torturous at times. The author would write somewhat cynically with a hint of superiority. Yes, we live in a world consumed by consumerism and capitalism and making money - I got tired of the rants. In addition, the back and forth of still going to the fortune tellers but simultaneously criticizing and judging them became repetitive.
This book is full of "romanticizing" of life. Likely I'll keep referring to it when I talk about slower living. About the fact that all the airports look the same and how taking the road or sea transport, we share something in common with everyone traveling - boredom. And how there's beauty in this.
Regarding cultures and people, my favorite little story was about tribal women selling goods and rejecting a much higher bill for two smaller ones - two must be worth more than just one, right?
It is a well-worth-a-read book, yet for me, it was torturous at times. The author would write somewhat cynically with a hint of superiority. Yes, we live in a world consumed by consumerism and capitalism and making money - I got tired of the rants. In addition, the back and forth of still going to the fortune tellers but simultaneously criticizing and judging them became repetitive.