Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer

Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer
by Chuck Thompson

Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer
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Author: Chuck Thompson
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2007-11-27
ISBN: 0805082093
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

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Book Review: Absolutely too funny!
Summary: 5 Stars

As a "would-like-to-be" travelwriter this book was very helpful. Didn't make me feel like such a failure any more! Everyone trying to break into the field needs to read what s/he thought the industry was all about but was afraid to really think! Great and easy read.

Summary of Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer

From Bangkok to Bogot?, a hilarious behind-the-brochures tour of picture-perfect locales, dangerous destinations, and overrated hellholes from a guy who knows the truth about travel

Travel writer, editor, and photographer Chuck Thompson has spent more than a decade traipsing through thirty-five (and counting) countries across the globe, and he’s had enough. Enough of the half-truths demanded by magazine editors, enough of the endlessly recycled clich?s regarded as good travel writing, and enough of the ugly secrets fiercely guarded by the travel industry. But mostly, he’s had enough of returning home from assignments and leaving the most interesting stories and the most provocative insights on the editing-room floor. From getting swindled in Thailand to running afoul of customs inspectors in Belarus, from defusing hostile Swedish rockers backstage in Germany to a closed-door meeting with travel execs telling him why he’s about to be fired once again, Thompson’s no-holds-barred style is refreshing, invigorating, and all those other adjectives travel writers use to describe spa vacations where the main attraction is a daily colonic.

Smile When You’re Lying takes readers on an irresistible series of adventures in Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and beyond; details the effects of globalization on the casual traveler and ponders the future of travel as we know it; and offers up a treasure trove of travel-industry secrets collected throughout a decidedly speckled career.

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