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The Mosquito Coast av Paul Theroux
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The Mosquito Coast (urspr publ 1980; utgåvan 2006)

av Paul Theroux (Författare)

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  • "A gripping adventure story."â??New York Times Book Review
    The paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life. But his utopian experiment takes a dark turn when his obsessions lead the family toward unimaginable danger.… (mer)
  • Medlem:jvalka
    Titel:The Mosquito Coast
    Författare:Paul Theroux (Författare)
    Info:Mariner Books (2006), Edition: Reprint, 384 pages
    Samlingar:Ditt bibliotek
    Betyg:***1/2
    Taggar:Fiction, eBook, Owned

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      bluepiano: A non-fiction book with a story and characters so like those of Mosquito Coast that I've often wondered whether Little's is the true story that Theroux supposedly based his novel upon. (Also published under the even more cringe-making title Survive!)
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    I found this novel less compelling than Theroux's travel writing. ( )
      sfj2 | Mar 10, 2024 |
    It had been a while since I read a book by Theroux. I love his travel books. He has been called a cynic by many, though I guess that could be seen as a recommendation as well. To me it isn´t necessarily a negative point. Theroux writes big books, which makes them ideal to take on a holiday, at least to me, as I read a lot and can´t take piles of books.

    The Mosquito coast is a novel, yet it is also a travel book. An American family decides to leave the States, the country is not making progress according to Father. They end up in Honduras where they manage to create a little community where they live happily, all doing their daily chores. Father even manages to build an ice machine, use fire to make ice, even in the heat of central America. Yet father goes berserk and things do not look as brightly as they did before.

    Great story, difficult to put down. It does help that I have been in Honduras and have some images in my head when I read this. Apart from that I saw a great movie with Robin Williams as the brilliant, yet crazy father. Greatly recommended.

    (I was wrong, it has been turned into a movie, yet RW wasn't involved) ( )
      privaterevolution | Mar 4, 2024 |
    A book that mirrors its journey into the jungle as it slowly falls apart like the main cast. The premise is wonderful; the most American American, the epitome of self reliance and independence, has to retreat from America to return to a more true way of life, away from the corrupt remnants of a once great nation. What that way of life is and how it's to be lived is what falls apart during the course of the book, in obvious allusions to those who dream those ideals back home. There's a separate man vs religion theme throughout the book as well, but less clear in purpose.
    Unfortunately it can't quite pull the threads together and they instead fall apart into a near parody of itself as the father's insanity and purity spiral continues, becoming more a Kurtz in the jungle. The more elevated threads seem lost in the end to pure antipathy for domineering father figures as the story limps home and you're left wondering if it was really just intended as a character portrait of insanity through the eyes of the son, any more clever threads left rotting on the jungle floor.
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      A.Godhelm | Oct 20, 2023 |
    Every parent is Allie Fox. Every child is Charlie. Mosquito Coast is metaphor in the extreme. Brilliant.
      Deni_Weeks | Sep 16, 2023 |
    Allie Fox, genio autodidacta, inventor visionario y fanático adversario del "american way of life", mantiene despóticamente a su familia bajo la fascinación de sus extravagantes ideas e iniciativas. Una mañana, harto de lo que él llama civilización, decide partir hacia un misterioso destino. No será hasta más tarde, ya embarcado en un carguero atiborrado de plátanos, cuando la familia conocerá el fin que le espera: la costa de los mosquitos, en Honduras, donde empezará para ella una aventura delirante.
      Natt90 | Jan 17, 2023 |
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    To "Charlie Fox," whose story this is and whose courage showed me that the brave cannot be killed. With grateful thanks for many hours of patient explanation and good humor in the face of my ignorant questioning. May he find the peace he deserves on this safer coast. Naksaa - P.T.
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    We drove past Tiny Polski's mansion house to the main road, and then the five miles into Northampton, Father talking the whole way about savages and the awfulness of America - how it got turned into a dope-taking, door locking, ulcerated danger zone of rabid scavengers and criminal millionaires and moral sneaks.
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    "A gripping adventure story."â??New York Times Book Review
    The paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life. But his utopian experiment takes a dark turn when his obsessions lead the family toward unimaginable danger.

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