The Mosquito Coast
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The Mosquito Coast
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Narrated by:
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David Aaron Baker
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Written by:
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Paul Theroux
About this listen
Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured messianic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness.
©1982 Cape Cod Scriveners (P)2010 Recorded Books LLCWhat listeners say about The Mosquito Coast
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- Peter L
- 2020-07-11
great book!
loved it! read it in high school. came back to it years later. Just as I remembered it!
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- Momma bear
- 2019-04-19
Brilliant.
Hard to believe that so many years after it’s publication, the underlying themes are the same today. This is the heart of darkness, American style. The character of Allie is so finely wrought that the writing itself is worth reading, however dark the story. I have read all of Theroux’s travel books...but this fiction sets the tone for everyone of them. This is a classic.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- Charles L Arbez
- 2021-12-02
Tedious
I like Paul Theroux’s travel books very much; there are always some new insights. After The Plain of Snakes I tried this book. Unfortunately it reads like a Hollywood script, stereotypical, sentimental, predicable & way too long. The experience is amplified by the narration which is overly dramatized.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Nic
- 2024-02-09
Mixed feelings about this book
On one hand, it's a book that elicited a strong emotional reaction toward the main character, but on the other hand, it was borderline insufferable. The performance by the narrator was on point and really conveyed the pressure-cooker situation. The story itself is pretty straight forward, it's the characters that make it interesting.
Only three stars overall from me, I didn't enjoy it enough to recommend it.
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