Re: (Tears) Beyond Rejection (Beyond, volume 1) by Justin Leiber

On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:58:24 +0000, John
<john@building-m.simplistic-anti-spam-measure.net> wrote:

Jerry Brown <jerry@jwbrown.co.uk.invalid> writes:
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There's also the non-fiction "Tramp Royale" in which RAH pioneers the
slightly snarky travel book decades before the likes of Bill Bryson
and his successors.

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I guess you could say he pioneered the slightly snarky travel book, but
only because Mark Twain pioneered the *extremely* snarky travel book in
the previous century.
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The title "Tramp Royale" may even be a wink to "A Tramp Abroad"
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I could have done without the final chapter in which he advises the
reader that they might as well travel the USA as its sights are better
than anything the rest of the world could offer.

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A deeply Heinlein attitude, although I agree that some Americans have a
weird tendency to not view it as a "real" vacation unless an ocean was
crossed.

I came to the conclusion that "visiting the relatives" and "real
vacation" were not the same thing (except, of course, in my family) --
but I didn't think you had to cross an ocean to have a real vacation.
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Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"