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The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America - Community Reviews back

by Ernesto Guevara
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All about me
All about me rated it 7 years ago
I didn't mind this book. It wasn't great, but nor was it terrible. It was interesting getting a perspective on what drove Guevara to take the path that he did. In some ways it was a brave book because there was no sanitising of Guevara's words; some of them I didn't agree with and found misplaced. B...
Timmeloche
Timmeloche rated it 12 years ago
2.5 StarsNothing groundbreaking in this short read. I was interested in reading this after my visit to Cuba. Ernesto "Che" Guevara was, if nothing else, an interting and complex person. In reading the novel you follow a young Che on a trip through Latin America before he graduates Medical School ...
halfmanhalfbook
halfmanhalfbook rated it 12 years ago
This is the fist of the diaries that Che Guevara wrote when he first set of on a journey around South America. It starts as two lads having a bit of a laugh on a motorbike, and as het meets more people he starts to seethe with the injustice that they suffer.Well written and well translated.
Osho
Osho rated it 13 years ago
This makes me feel old, but in a good way. I don't want to be carousing about drunk on stolen wine, ill, with no money, pitching off my broke-down motorcycle over and over, misrepresenting my credentials and trying to score with cute women. I mean, it sounds good on paper, but I've made different ch...
Sharon E. Cathcart
Sharon E. Cathcart rated it 15 years ago
One of my biggest complaints about modern US civics education (where it appears to exist at all) is the short shrift given to certain historical figures. All most of us ever learn about Ernesto Guevara is that he was a revolutionary, assassinated by the CIA, and that revolutionaries are "bad." (Ne...
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