The author may not make for the most sensible travel companion, but she is certainly one of the zaniest, with a knack for inserting herself (and her unwitting cohorts) into bizarre situations around the globe. Curator of kitsch and unabashed aficionadaof pop culture, Halliday offers bemused, self-deprecating narration of events from guerrilla theater in Romania to drug-induced Apocalypse Now reenactments in Vietnam to a perhaps more surreal collagen-implant demonstration at a Paris fashion show emceedby Lauren Bacall. A self-admittedly bumbling vacationer, Halliday sharesłwith razor-sharp wit and to hilarious effectłthe travel stories most are too self-conscious to tell

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