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Original Title:	Don't Stop the Carnival
ISBN:	0316955124 (ISBN13: 9780316955126)
Edition Language:	English

Don't Stop the Carnival Paperback | Pages: 416 pages

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Title	:	Don't Stop the Carnival
Author	:	Herman Wouk
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 416 pages
Published	:	May 15th 1992 by Back Bay Books (first published 1965)
Categories	:	Fiction. Humor. Travel. Literature

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It's every parrothead's dream: to leave behind the rat race of the workaday world and start life all over again amidst the cool breezes, sun-drenched colors, and rum-laced drinks of a tropical paradise. It's the story of Norman Paperman, a New York City press agent who, facing the onset of middle age, runs away to a Caribbean island to reinvent himself as a hotel keeper. (Hilarity and disaster -- of a sort peculiar to the tropics -- ensue.) It's the novel in which the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such acclaimed and bestselling novels as The Caine Mutiny and War and Remembrance draws on his own experience (Wouk and his family lived for seven years on an island in the sun) to tell a story at once brilliantly comic and deeply moving.

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Ratings: 3.93 From 2908 Users | 315 Reviews

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Have you ever wanted to run away from life and begin again in the tropics? If you are anything like Norman Pepperman it is a bad idea! But I am so glad that he suffered from this particular midlife crisis and that Herman Wouk allowed me the pleasure of witnessing the antics that followed. If anything could go wrong ... it did. And poor Norman tried so hard to stay positive and upbeat. He tried so hard to make his new beach life work. This book made me laugh out loud when I was listening in bed

Hilarious! I laughed out loud.This book was recommended to me because some of the antics that happened on the island of Amerigo happens on Caye Caulker. Maybe if I ran a business here on the caye, I would agree whole-heartedly with that thought. Here's one example: on Amerigo, Columbus Day is January 2nd because Columbus stopped on Amerigo on that day to get water so it's the holiday on January 2nd. I laughed because Mother's Day in the US this year was May 11. In Belize it's May 10 and in

An interesting tale of an expatriate trying to eek out a life in the Caribbean. Set in 1960s. Some of these things can still be felt happening today. The slowness of the Island, the government and the warmth of the people. good read .. a really quick ending but good read nonetheless

I brought this 1960s-era novel along to read on our recent vacation, and it ended up being a really good choice. In it, native New Yorker Norman Paperman chucks his stressful show-biz/theatre life in the city to buy a run-down hotel on a small Caribbean island, and what ensues -- the constant hotel disasters, the quirky new friends he meets, his naïveté about island politics and work ethics, etc. -- makes for really funny and entertaining reading. It was so easy to imagine the hilarious missteps

This book... objectively is a 3-4 star read but Im too close to it to be objective (this is a reread for me). Bad news first: its attitudes towards women, Caribbean people, and the LGBTQ community are ANTIQUATED. Capitalized. Underlined. Antiquated. However, considering that it was written in 1965 its forgivable in that it does accurately capture the zeitgeist of the time. The good news: the story is a tragicomedy about the illusionary paradise of running a hotel as an outsider in the Caribbean

Here's the problem: you can't write 380 pages of comedic farce, then abruptly switch to tragedy for the last 20 pages. You're humming along contentedly with this colorful Caribbean pageant, and all the sudden, it's rather like being kicked in the gut. Too bad about the ending, because I mostly enjoyed the book up to that point, except for the abundant racism and homophobia.

I adore this book. I read it when I was probably 13 and found an old hard back copy in one of my parents stacks of books. Neither of them knew where it came from or had read it. I thought that was so odd but adored reading it and have gone back to it many times since. I own very few books though I am a voracious reader. If it isn't a book I really love and see reading multiple times it isn't worth it for me to have it on a shelf. This book makes me giggle and smile with it's eccentric