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Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America

Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America

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Author: Jenny Diski
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 7 reviews
Sales Rank: 207244

Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 0.9

ISBN: 1860499953
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9781860499951
ASIN: 1860499953

Publication Date: January 15, 2004
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Customer Reviews:   Read 2 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars the art of writing is not dead   September 27, 2008
If you despair of modern writers and their lack of style; weep no more. This book is a wonderful piece of writing and is unputdownable (sic).


5 out of 5 stars Wonderful   March 4, 2007
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Loved this. Picked it up at random in the library and as soon as I finished it I went back to borrow Nothing Natural which I enjoyed just as much! There was something in both books that really spoke to me. Am about to start reading Like Mother, hope it's just as good!


5 out of 5 stars So much more than a travel book!   July 9, 2004
 12 out of 12 found this review helpful

This is NOT a travel book! This is people watching by words - in her unmistakeable individual style Jenny Diski 'talks' to you on such a level that you often feel like her thoughts are actually yours and you forget you are reading at all! I read this book on holiday and came home feeling more like I had been on a train in the USA for a week than on a beach! Her reminicenses of her past are touching and poignant. You finish this book feeling like this excentric, rather neurotic lady is your friend, and her journey, yours. A highly addictive book, I would recommend this to anyone who has ever found themselves transfixed by the actions of a complete stranger, no matter how mundane they may be.


2 out of 5 stars Very poor y not a great Travel Book   June 7, 2004
 1 out of 14 found this review helpful

This is the first book I've read by Jenni Diski, and I'm told its not typical of her work. Certainly this was disappointing. It's not a conventional travelogue; in fact after 70 pages (25% of the book) she still hadn't got on the train!

Throughout she shows a brief insight into the personality of a dozen fellow passengers, but spends more time describing her problems gasping for a cigarette - hasn't she heard of nicotine patches?

In 8 lines (lines, not pages) she dismisses the whole journey from Portland Oregon to Sacramento to Denver to Albuquerque - and she doesn't even mention Nevada & Utah. Was she asleep the whole time? Then Arizona to New York via New Orleans vanishes in a dozen pages with 2 anecdotes. Was she bored?


4 out of 5 stars Diski's Brave Exploration of The American People   May 5, 2004
 5 out of 5 found this review helpful

Again, this book shows Jenny Diski's ability to tell a vivid, real life account, whil mixing in memories from her youth. She manages to see the positive in both cases and reminds us to learn from every experience. She inspires me to take time out to daydream and to keep an open mind.

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