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The Mosquito Coast

By: Paul Theroux
Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
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Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured messianic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness.

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Part of me couldn't wait for this to be finished. I did pause it several times. But there was no way that I wasn't going to finish it. I doubt it's a spoiler if I tell you it deals with a dangerously fanatical genius who sets out to build his own version of paradise away from the USA and western civilisation/decadence. Wonderfully performed and beautiful writing that transcends into the sublime at times. I couldn't believe that the mother was so passive.

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I really could not stand this book. The character of the father was performed in a crotchety old man manner. Could not get into it at all. Gave up half way. Tv show way better

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