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Hotel Honolulu
Written by Paul Theroux
Narrated by George Guidall
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Critically acclaimed author Paul Theroux weaves a multilayered tale charged with humor, lust, and tragedy. Looking to get away, a man suffering from writer's block winds up at the run-down Hotel Honolulu, where he becomes the new manager. Intrigued by the human drama developing all around him, he hopes to rekindle his writing passion.
Author
Paul Theroux
PAUL THEROUX is the author of many highly acclaimed books. His novels include The Bad Angel Brothers, The Lower River, Jungle Lovers, and The Mosquito Coast, and his renowned travel books include Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and Dark Star Safari. He lives in Hawaii and on Cape Cod.
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Reviews for Hotel Honolulu
Rating: 3.3661417007874013 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
127 ratings5 reviews
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5DNF@15% Ultimately a collection of short stories that have an annoying air of pretentiousness and feel annoyingly repetitive because of the finish given to the end of each chapter/story. While I find a lot of the writing very engaging, the tone of the last few lines to complete and/or twist the story are just irking me. Perhaps I could tolerate this better if I was just reading a single chapter before bed or something, but reading one after another it really wears.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I love this book! There is some sexual stuff but other than that, I love it! The writing style, the exotic characters, the plot twists. This is the perfect book!!!!
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5No more than a clutch of linked, thinly developed short sketches. Disappointing.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This was not really a novel. It was an excuse to write a whole bunch of disconnected stories about people whose lives barely touched each others'. None of the characters had anything about them that induced sympathy or make you like them. There was so much greed and vice and sheer nastiness about everyone that I didn’t want to hear much more.The only interesting thing was the writer’s relationship with his wife. He married her because she was strong and earthy and sexy. He kept mentioning how she wasn’t very smart and when she would come out with some nugget of wisdom, he was always surprised that her tiny brain could have produced it. It seemed a weird basis for a marriage. And the daughter they had was just unreal. So literal and pedantic at age 5 that you wondered if she had been born without an imagination the way some kids are born without limbs. A birth defect.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5So much fun, so many characters, very well written. The premise of the hotel as a gathering place (and in this case watering hole) for a cast of very colorful and transient characters is facinating.