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Title: My 'Dam Life: Three Years in Holland (Lonely Planet Journeys (Travel Literature)) by Sean Condon ISBN: 0-86442-781-6 Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Worth the Read
Comment: His first two books were hilarious, as is this third, but there is also something in this book that the other two don't have...a sense of the writer letting his guard down and letting his true insights show. There are some episodes of the book that are not only serious, but are handled with a professional delicacy that gives this book a maturity the others didn't have. Of course, Sean Condon still remains a goofball and one can only look forward to his next works to come....especially 'Film', a book out in the UK but still being anxiously awaited her in the U.S.
Rating: 3
Summary: The Slacker Diaries
Comment: My 'Dam Life: Three Years in Holland
Sean Condon
Lonely Planet 2003
Sean Condon is an Australian travel writer and unwilling ad man. His two previous books were about aimless drives around Australia and the US. His new book, My 'Dam Life is about his aimless wanderings around the city of Amsterdam. Condon comes off as a younger, less inspired Bill Bryson. Where Bryson manages to balance tales of his own idiosyncrasies with hilarious and insightful commentary, Condon spends too much time on his own psyche and not enough on the places he's visiting.
While I really would have preferred a lot less Sean and a lot more Amsterdam, My 'Dam Life is still an enjoyable read. Having visited Holland four times, I'm familiar with a lot of geography Sean covers, which makes me wonder why he doesn't mention things like Jeronemous Bosch when he visits s'Hetogenbosch. That really would be more interesting than rambling on about punctuation like he does.
Once you accept Condon's myopic worldview and come to terms with the fact that there is precious little you can glean from his books that would help you plan a trip of your own, My 'Dam Life is a fairly amusing account of a slacker's attempt to make a new life for himself in Amsterdam. I have to wonder though. How much of Sean's troubles with shop keepers, dentists and the police were of his own making? My own experiences with the same groups in Amsterdam were much more positive. I guess you just have to shrug and consider the source.
Rating: 2
Summary: Self absorbed
Comment: Boring. Sean comes across as self absorbed, lazy and whiney. The laughs seem forced. The story meanders and doesn't seem to go anywhere or achieve anything. It's probably a personal preference, but I prefer my travel books to reveal some sort of journey - spiritual, emotional or physical, and this book is not one of them. Shallow and pointless. Try other aussie travel writers such as Sarah MacDonald's 'Holy Cow'or Sarah Turnbull's 'Almost French'instead.
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Title: Sean & David's Long Drive by Sean Condon ISBN: 0864423713 Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Drive Thru America by Sean Condon ISBN: 0864425066 Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Amsterdam: A Traveler's Literary Companion by Manfred Wolf ISBN: 188351309X Publisher: Whereabouts Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Streetwise Amsterdam by Inc Streetwise Maps, Michael Brown ISBN: 0935039821 Publisher: Streetwise Maps Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson ISBN: 0380713802 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 06 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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