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Naked In Dangerous Places: The Chronicles Of A Hungry, Scared, Lost, Homesick, But Otherwise Perfectly Happy Traveler (2009)

by Cash Peters(Favorite Author)

3.24 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0307396355 (ISBN13: 9780307396358)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Broadway Books

review 1: Funny and unvarnished, this satisfying read recounts Peters' year he spent toiling to make a survival TV show for the Discovery Channel. From Kenya to Cambodia, Morocco to Dubai, he visits many fascinating cultures, eats and sleeps with them, and very nearly doesn't survive at all. This is the perfect short, pick-me-up read. It was only a matter of time until he branched out from his hilarious, public radio pieces.
review 2: What a disappointment. The title of this book might lead you to think that this (nonfiction) piece is actually about the stories of a happy traveler, but it's not. This is a book that Cash Peters seems to have written in order to drag out his fifteen minutes of fame from his stint as a reality TV host to sixteen minutes. What this i... mores not: a travel story.What this is: a tell-all musings of a travel radio host who somehow, magically, ends up pitching the premise of a reality TV show (completely copied from the premise of Survivor, if he's to be believed) where he - the host - is dropped into a foreign land with no knowledge of where he is, with no money and nowhere to sleep. Being that this is a reality TV show, there are, of course, crew members. And although technically he has to find someone to offer him a stay in their home, he doesn't actually have to sleep there. Nor does he ever actually go hungry or meet strangers, because those he meets and interviews have all been pre-screened by the producers of the show.In the end, this book is more about how reality TV is anything but real: it's contrived in every imaginable way in order to get viewers hooked. Perhaps I would have liked this book more if the publishers had been more forthcoming about what it really is, rather than posing it as something else. Much like the show itself, I suppose. less

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