Wow. So I originally picked this up at my library because they’d lost their copy of The Great Railway Bazaar and I wanted to see what Theroux was like in some fashion after having heard him talk about his newest book on NPR.

I’ve been reading this side by side with the Great Railway Bazaar (yay, Paperspine.com!) and I have to say… he’s a lot crankier in this book than in Bazaar. Really downright unlikeable on the subject of his traveling companions on the way to Turkey. Yucky!

So what made him so unhappy in between these two books?