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09-20-2009, 05:39 PM
1. What was your travel route?
2. Why was it hellish?
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10-25-2009, 11:40 AM
Spoiler Alert
so...What ever happened to Mariana?
I am the cock carousel
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03-13-2010, 05:54 PM
I came back to Rio on December 1 of last year. And I leave again in 2 days. I just put the finishing touches on the epilogue today actually. I will release it some time this year.
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03-21-2010, 03:17 AM
Roosh,
I received your book a few days ago. Very pleasant and entertaining as well as informative read.
I'm not done with it yet, I'm about 1/3 through it. I was surprised to see you didn't include Colombia on your book as I was/am very curious to hear/read more about that.
Thanks for a great book IMHO. I wish more of those guys travelling accross SA/Asia would be more daring and write books of their adventures. WOuld make for very informative and enjoyable reading experiences.
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03-21-2010, 10:27 PM
Well the plan was to hit Colombia on that trip but as you'll read I ran into some difficulties.
I'm working on a separate colombia book right now.
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05-03-2010, 04:03 AM
Great book overall. I read it in Cordoba so I found that chapter particularly amusing. The book is also a major reason why I've avoided going to Bolivia.
Highly recommend to people who enjoy Roosh's stories on his blog, as well as anybody going backpacking in South America.
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05-03-2010, 07:29 AM
I'm guessing the Medellin Guide is being made into book format.... looking forward to that.
Roosh you mentioned two books this year... any hints??
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05-03-2010, 04:37 PM
Colombia book first, hopefully in june, then another game-related book towards the end of the year.
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06-26-2010, 10:04 PM
I loved your book. Some of the stories I look as parables and learned lessons from your experiences, others I took as entertaining. I see how this trip sculpted you into a better person.
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12-16-2010, 10:59 PM
Hi Roosh, just wanted to tell you I'm enjoying "A Dead Bat in Paraguay." Bought the Kindle edition yesterday and am up to Huaraz. I had been looking for a decent South American travelogue, hoping to find some insight about Huanchaco, Peru. I'm considering retiring there in 6 years at 55. It sounded like you liked it. But who knows, just joined here, might find out about some place even better. Thanks for the great read!
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08-07-2011, 02:19 AM
Just finished reading the book in Kindle for Android. I like the title because that means I can get it on my moms amazon account without raising any questions.
Pretty awesome book. I felt for you with your toilet troubles, I can see why you say the trip was hellish. I've had a couple of those situations in India especially once where there was a road blockage for a road strike. I really had to go take a crap but our cars couldn't go through. I had to find a bush to relieve myself......
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08-19-2011, 08:09 AM
1. In the epilogue I share something thoughts looking back. I found the trip to be a very life changing event that made it more clear what I wanted to do. It also "damaged" me to where I could no longer tolerate the cookie-cutter life I had been previously living in the States. If I'm not in a new country swooping foreign women, I feel dissatisfied.
2. It just made be more appreciative of what I have. While I still couldn't be happy with Dr. Wang, I learned that I need to be more reasonable and realize that so many people have it worse than I have. But I will still chase my happiness ideal.
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12-12-2011, 08:44 PM
I just finished reading this book. Goddamn man, I almost got tears at the end with the Mariana thing. It's funny how many similarities I could pick out between your experiences and my own. I've never traveled to SA or for longer than a few weeks, but I had the same sort of "relationship" with a girl I met in the Czech Republic. It really messed with my head, and coming back to the US was almost torturous knowing I'd have to go back to work, deal with workplace assholes, get gas, grocery shopping, pay bills, and other mundane things that really suck the fun out of life while this amazing girl was just waiting for me. You try in vain to keep in touch and keep that magic alive, but it never works.
I saw her again this year when she visited the US and it was just different. She smoked more, looked at her iPhone more, cared more about how she looked and was genuinely a buzzkill. I would've married this girl 5 years ago and now I find her annoying and somehow uglier. Your experience with Mariana really felt similar, and I can just imagine how you were trying to recapture even a fraction of what you had on the prior visit.
Anyways, great read. I can honestly say I might've had a different perspective if I had made the same journey considering I LOVE anything outdoors, but all the same, it was interesting to hear about the dark parts of that culture/continent that a Lonely Planet guide might gloss over. Brazil seems cool as shit