Great read, U R a total loser & arsehole if you don't complete the book!

Everyone should read this, recommend that everyone copy & paste this link

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/79...7/index19.html

on various 2+2 forum rooms & elsewhere on the web . . . should be required reading for many . . .

Please!!!!!!! Just one more story. This is prly THE best ive ever read

somebody notify me when Adzman publish his book.

Ouch, that's harsh. Getting close to finishing first draft and realising that writing a book is not that hard. But writing a good book is damned difficult.

most books i read i think "this book sucks i could write this without breaking a sweat"

Simply amazing stuff, i have read this 3 times and printed off several copies to hand out to friends who all loved it as much as me. Once your book is published i have at lest 8 copies sold for you already.

Your story actually left me feeling guilty by the end of it, guilty that i will probably never experience the stuff you have or have the balls to do the things you did.

You are truly an inspiring person.

We mustn't be reading the same books.

Great read, just read every page of the thread. Sad to think that I have continually skipped over this thread for months by not opening it up. Sick life ftw.

i know 1000 people have said it but thanks for writing this. easily one of the best things ive ever read, cant wait for the book. i have one and a half years left of college and am planning on taking some time off to travel the world, reading this makes me want to drop out and leave tomorrow!

A little late to this thread, but this was a fantastic read, adsman!

I'm grunching, as I'm only on page five, but adsman I have to say, you have inspired me to change my life and not be afraid of traveling to new places without any idea where it will take me. Thank you so much for writing this, and I cannot wait to finish reading it.

the last five books i read were:

Beyond Good and Evil
The Gay Science
The Lighthouse
The Revolt of the Masses
Fear and Trembling

... actually the first four books there are books so good I don't think I am ever capable of making anything comparable. Which is so rare. (The last book I don't understand what the author was saying). Still though to get to those five books I've had to pick up, read for a few hours, and then put down mediocre books. For instance I am looking at my bookshelf and see, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamis (Tom Robbins), Hotel Honolulu (Paul Theroux), Ya Ya Sisterhood, Radicalism and the American Revolution (won a pulitzer prize). I am not saying they aren't without value. But there was nothing in any of them that made me think "wow, that was incredible, what genius." The number of really talented people in the world who also put all of their energies into a craft is soooo small and I don't think books are anything different.

What's the last five books you read that left you so impressed and discouraged with your own capabilities?

Just after spending 3 nights reading this thread. Its simply the best thread i've ever read. It is very inspirational and just what I needed to read as I'm stuck in a lull right now at this moment in my life. I'm going travelling thailand, Australia, NZ and Fiji in September and your story has me all psyched to go. Thanks a millon and please let us know when you release your book for I would love to buy a copy!

Your experience on what Africa does to you is what I've felt for a while now. Where I live drinking and driving is encouraged, people cover one eye so they don't see double. Running red lights is standard, I've done it plenty of times with a cop stopped at the light. There is no real law, security guards don't do ****, shops close at sundown because they've been robbed too much, I've sped past police officers asking me to stop -- even ones with a car and a radio.

Girls cost $20/ half hour and they are gorgeous...

I need to leave though, I don't feel like this place is doing anything good for me. There are a lot of expats here, but they crowd amongst themselves and the other whites. I spend most of my time playing poker with drug runners, police officers and just straight gangsters. Every day I'm here I feel as if my sense of the worth of life gets worse.

The funny thing is that I wanted to move from where I was living because of all the laws.. getting a parking ticket pissed the *** out of me, here people park on the sidewalk. I just hated the structure and insect like organization of living in the first world, I wanted to get out to a developing country and do whatever crossed my mind.

This place is far more structured then Africa I'm sure, but it's still a huge leap from the first world.

I think it's Argentina next

neverthere, where are you? i empathize with you, from Bolivia.