Tim Moore
The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold: Adventures Along the Iron Curtain
A story of extreme adventure but from the start I was thinking why do this to yourself except to write a book about how you should have planned the trip better. I just found it pointless to be honest and his descriptions of extreme cold for days on end made me wonder how he didn't end up with frost bite. His descriptions of the places and people he meets risk stereotyping to a degree that I felt insulting. His descriptions of individuals are often very harsh and in the context of stereotyping bordering on xenophobic. I'm sure (I hope) that this was all in the interest of amusing anecdotes but it grated so much that by the time he got down to Germany I had to give up on the book.
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