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Original Title:	The Mosquito Coast
ISBN:	0618658963 (ISBN13: 9780618658961)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Honduras
Literary Awards:	James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (1981), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (Hardcover) (1983)

The Mosquito Coast

Paul Theroux

Paperback | Pages: 384 pages

Rating: 3.83 | 9178 Users | 654 Reviews

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Title	:	The Mosquito Coast
Author	:	Paul Theroux
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	June 1st 2006 by Mariner Books (first published 1981)
Categories	:	Fiction. Travel. Adventure. Classics. Novels. Literary Fiction

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In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life. But his utopian experiment takes a dark turn when his obsessions lead the family toward unimaginable danger.

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Ratings: 3.83 From 9178 Users | 654 Reviews

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Its a hard book to categorise, this one: coming-of-age yarn, adventure story, literary fiction? Well, in truth, all of the above. Id read one of the authors renowned travel books (which I thoroughly enjoyed) but this was my first experience of his fiction. And a pretty good experience it turned out to be.Allie Fox is an engineer, an inventor and a bombastic know-it-all. Fed up with America its fast food, television, religion and pretty much everything else he surprises his family one day by

not the best of Theroux. let him stick to travel

THE MOSQUITO COAST is a marvelous novel by Paul Theroux. Brilliant writing and great characters. Highly recommended.

Sometimes you just have to say, this is not the book for me. I could plow through it for the sake of my book club, but why put myself through 3 or 4 hours of angst and misery, reading about a wildly dysfunctional family trying to create their own utopia in the jungles of the Honduras?In an intellectual way I appreciate that the father, Allie Fox, is an amazing character, but he's just painful for me to read about. It was like fingernails on a chalkboard. He pursues one scheme after another, with

This will be my third or fourth Paul Theroux read, plus short stories in The New Yorker. I wouldn't be reading it if I didn't like his writing(duh ...). I first heard of this book when the movie came out. Didn't see it, but it helps to imagine Harrison Ford embodying Allie Fox, world's biggest a-hole. I tried to think of anyone I'd ever met who was so thoroughly and obviously narcissistic, but couldn't. Allie's like that guy/stranger in a bar that overhears your conversation and busts in with

Excellent book about the dangers of monomania and pride. Allie Fox is basically Captain Ahab reborn as an inventor with a real bone to pick with American society and culture. This was an incredibly engaging book and would be a good read for both those looking to think and those looking to be entertained. I always tell my wife that I want to sell everything and move to Australia, raise sheep, and live the simple life. This novel made me reconsider my dream. In America we love to romanticize the

Funny, funny book.Well, that was my review the first time I read it. Now, after a reread some 20 years later, I wonder why I didn't pick up on what was really going on with the father. This time it was clear to me, and gave the book, despite its comedic moments, a sense of ever-increasing dread.