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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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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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Title	:	The Mosquito Coast
Author	:	Paul Theroux
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary 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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I am shocked that Paul Theroux has written such a book. I am shocked that he wanted to have it published with him as its author. I read it to the very end. I thought there had to be something good here, something I was missing, but no, it gets worse and worse as you go. Dont even consider reading this. Phew, I am so glad it is over! The story is set in the late 70s, early 80s. The central protagonist is an American going by the name of Allie Fox. He is married, has a son of thirteen years, a

I always have the same reaction to Paul Theroux; I'm impressed with his artistry, but the world-view he presents (at least in his fiction -- I haven't read any of his travel writing) is so bleak that I'm left feeling fairly depressed. The Mosquito Coast was no different in this regard. Allie Fox is best described as a cult leader, but his followers are merely his wife and his four children. The story is narrated by Charlie, who at 14 is his oldest child, and begins with the family living on an

Part adventure story, part comedy, part travelogue, part horror story. This is a gritty YA novel written for adults. Google Maps just won't help you finding your way here in this jungle world of divine retribution against the man who dares to change nature and ultimately pays for his blasphemy. It's a three-part chronicle of the gradual descent into murder and madness by a man of great intelligence, individuality, photographic memory and deeply analytical genius. That descent would be even more

Paul Theroux understands fathers and sons like few authors I have read, but I still struggle with Allie Fox's descent into madness. Part of me feels that we are supposed to struggle with his descent, to feel pity and empathy for him, but part of me feels that I am expected to feel anger and hate towards him -- things I do not and can not. Whether this is the failure of the author or the reader is beyond me, but it is enough to drop this book out of my true favorites (and it was one of my

An overzealous father uproots his family in the middle of the night to leave America, with only their clothes on their back, to journey to the deep jungles of Honduras. Here he has grandiose hopes to build a radical new civilization in which he is the leader of. Although a brilliant inventor, he is both paranoid and manic and the journey that transpires is both disastrous and dangerous, putting his family at risk. The story is taken from the perspective of his eldest son, Charlie, who throughout

I have to say that I didn't find anything at all funny about the book. It was a bleak, bleak tale, a heart of darkness, a descent into madness, a story of horrific hypocrisy and abuse. It features an amazingly weak female character, a man who abuses his own children to the point where his two sons openly fantasize about killing him (and for good reason!) even as they are overwhelmed by his personal charisma and energy.Truthfully, I didn't like the book. I'll never read it again. I do, however,

Life lesson:When you let a friend borrow a book, be sure to stress "borrow." Borrow. BORROW, God dammit! Especially when your usual book arrangement with the fellow is letting him have the ones you want to get rid of since he takes them to the library/goodwill once he finishes them or doesn't want them. I know for a fact I said "borrow," but I didn't stress it. I also realize it was a rushed conversation and we were going over some other cat-sitting stuff at the same time. This crossed my mind