Books of The Times: Some Dirty Little Detours on the Road to Shangri-La
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Chuck Thompson demolishes the dream vacation in his acidic take on travel journalism and the multitudinous horrors that lie just beyond the airline check-in counter.
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LANNING a trip involves many difficult decisions, but near the top of my list is standing in a bookstore trying to choose from a daunting lineup of guidebooks, a purchase that brands the owner
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How many gilded fairy tales do you want? There was the Magnificent 7 in Atlanta in 1996 and the Fantastic 5 in Anaheim last summer. Was anyone really counting on dethroning the Romanians at an overseas Olympics?
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The local-global conundrum, a thoroughly modern predicament, has found its way into a small shelfâs worth of new food books.
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1. "The Almost Moon" by Alice Sebold (Little, Brown)
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Risk takers like Steve Fossett stir controversy and fascination by pushing the limits, but the pursuit of a daring dream can also be the quickest way to find a nightmare.
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SAN FRANCISCO  - The romance of the open road has proved irresistible to adventurous young men from Jack London to Jack Kerouac and, more recently, Christopher McCandless, a troubled college grad who in the early 1990s burned his cash, junked his car and disappeared into the north Alaskan territories, where he died an agonizing death from starvation, alone.
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Travel: Rosemary Mahoney describes the freedom and fears she encountered on her great river adventure
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Rewrite the book and rule the pages -- take a souvenir.
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Who gets to the top of the corporate greasy pole -- and how that has changed over the past century -- is the subject of a fascinating book, "Paths to Power."
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Anyone taking a road trip to follow the Hoover family's route in the Academy Award-nominated "Little Miss Sunshine" should be forewarned: The movie shows the family driving hundreds of miles out of their way.
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Life & style: Readers' advice for a woman at the end of her tether, plus Linda Blair's expert view.
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America's often bloody  conquest of the southwest as it pursued its "manifest destiny"  is the subject of Hampton Sides' new book, a gripping narrative  which centers on the enigmatic Christopher "Kit" Carson.
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Sometimes, it pays to be a looky-loo.
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Before heading out to unknown territories, travelers who spend a little time online can minimize such unpleasant surprises as hotel staff retribution, an airplane seat near the toilets, crying babies or wrinkles.
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Travel: When burnout hits, even the most robust business traveller needs a pitstop, Max Levene notes.
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Mostly, these lists give me an excuse to remind readers of good and great films that they may have missed. But in some respects, the actual list is the least of it.