The Accidental Tourist
Meet Macon Leary—a travel writer who hates both travel and strangeness. Grounded by loneliness, comfort, and a somewhat odd domestic life, Macon is about to embark on a surprising new journey. It's called love—and it arrives in the unlikely shape of a fuzzy-haired dog-obedience trainer who promises to turn the Accidental Tourist into a happy traveler...
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- "Kokoro" by Soseki Natsume. (What is inside you matters above all things)
"The Accidental Tourist" by Anne Tyler. (There is a crack in everything; that's how the light gets in)
"Dom Casmurro" by Machado de Assis (also his "Epitaph of a Small Winner") (The narrower the life, the more intense the obsessions)
"The Count of Monte Cristo" (get the Robin Buss translation from Penguin) ("Wait and hope")
- This reminds me of the book, The Accidental Tourist by Ann Tyler, also a movie in which William Hurt plays a travel writer who specializes in travel guides for reluctant business travelers. It is to travel writing what Castaway is to survival, not particularly useful but still a lot of fun.
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