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Cleopatra's Needle: Two Wheels by the Water to Cairo

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This could have been a very interesting true bicycle journey to read about, but I found I just had to put it down after 50 pages, and I stopped right there. There is simply too much information coming at the reader way to fast. This is a long bike journey, and it reads as if the author is verbally speaking into a tape recorder as she pedals along, giving you quick blow-by-blow minute description of what she is seeing, along with a ton of historical data on each site. Before you can grab onto one thought or place, she's within seconds hightailing it off to the next site up the road and I felt I was experiencing this trip on fast forward unable to catch my breath. If the author had slowed it down, and carefully chosen some of the better, more interesting sites to focus on and inform us on, it would have been so much more palatable. To cram it all in so fast with just minute details and mundane facts that were so very uninteresting, ruined the feel of it. A lot of editing could have been done here and careful selection of choice site seeing could have made for a much better read. I was greatly disappointed and would not recommend this.