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A Dead Bat In Paraguay: One Man's Peculiar Journey Through South America Paperback – July 12, 2009

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  • Paperback: 290 pages
  • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (July 12, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1442136367
  • ISBN-13: 978-1442136366
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.5 inches
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2.0 out of 5 starsYou will HATE the author after reading this book!!!
By The Kid on March 5, 2014
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I saw this book on his travel site and thought it was a cool topic and idea. The first of the book really draws you in but Roosh is the most self destructive person on the planet. I am going to point out how he ruined everything including this book,

PICKING UP GIRLS: It was not that Roosh does not have success in South America because he does. However he kills every chance he has. If the girl likes him he goes out of his way to make her hate him. If she's an easy pickup then he gets romantic and says she isn't good enough. If she's romantic and a good catch then he dumps her because we wants easy girls. Sometimes he develops a conscience right in the middle of a pickup and becomes the big brother instead. Most times you want to yell at the book as he walks away from a pickup and marks the 'easy win' as a 'no go' or a loss.

HIS HEALTH: Roosh lets his body get destroyed in South America. He doesn't go to the doctor until he is beyond sick so we are forced to hear about his sickness. Many times he creates illnesses in his head (scabies, rabies, etc.) even when the doctors tell him he is wrong. His health is the main reason he ends his trip early. He should have just gone to a doctor and finished what he started but like the girls he goes out of his way to make his own life miserable.

TRAVEL KNOWLEDGE: Roosh gives us very little about the places he visits. His major ideas about theft and "watching your stuff" could have been learned on a one page blog about travel. When he finds an amazing place like the Salt Flats or the sea lions he only gives us like two sentences about it.

LONELY PLANET: It doesn't take Roosh long to realize that if you use a guide book that all it does it keep you with the same gringos and tourists who use the guide book.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA unique and hilarious tale of a trek through south america
By cellblock4 on August 22, 2011
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I'm surprised that this book got a few bad reviews. It seems perhaps those readers didn't review the book description carefully enough. The title even reads: "peculiar." Anyway, if you're looking for a travel guide or some romantic endeavor into south american culture or history, this is not the book for you. However, if you're looking for a unique, uncensored and honest view into a young man's journey through south america, this is certainly a great read.

Travelling and picking up girls just scratches the surface of the many levels this book touches upon. The book delves into a young man's struggle with a mundane "office space" lifestyle, dealing with and overcoming failure, love, and making difficult life decisions. Besides the toilet humor, the book has very introspective moments that goes through a young man's mind and heart that many of us would not admit to. That said, the book is also full of hilarious stories during his travels and the characters he meets along the way. The combination of the aforementioned makes for a refreshingly different perspective to travelling.
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4.0 out of 5 starsA Different Kind of Travel Book
By JMB on September 16, 2009
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Roosh's new travelogue, A Dead Bat in Paraguay, is a fun and insightful read for anyone interested in backpacking travel. I say insightful because Roosh is at his best when he offers his travel perspectives including thoughts of his unique meaning of travel and what it offers him. But this book strays from other in the travel genre because a main theme of this book is traveling to meet women. Not shady sex tourism but the literal pursuit of women which is fascinating as Roosh details the differences between women around the world. He doesn't hold back with countless anecdotes of his death inducing bowel issues and epic failures.

What the book is not is some around the world trip about the stereotypical tourist sites like the Machu Picchu or Amazon jungle. Instead, Roosh focuses on the relationships he forms while traveling ranging from interactions with foreign women to interactions with other backpackers. The book does, however, have its limits. While Roosh does explore interesting topics like meeting women in different cultures or the expectations of traveling, he doesn't seem to integrate the topics together that well.

His theme of wanting to meet women is not evident from the beginning of the book and when it's first introduced it can come across as somewhat awkward for people unfamiliar with the new community dedicated to meeting women. For instance, he often goes into specific detail about his interaction with women including the more awkward subjects like kino. This may turn off people who do not look favorably on the pick-up-artist community. I would have liked Roosh to explain why his techniques are important in meeting women and why he got into using them in the first place.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsBetter than Expected
By Jokah Macpherson on September 8, 2014
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I've been reading Roosh's blog since the old DC Bachelor days a decade ago. It kind of goes through cycles of being really good and sort of stale and somehow I missed this book when it first came out. I finally got around to reading it recently and came in with very low expectations. The author's "bang guides" are excellent and to the point and he was insightful to spot this opening for an unfilled niche when he did but this doesn't necessarily translate over to composing something with a compelling narrative, especially when the memoir subject is chasing girls in South America.

Fortunately, this book vastly exceeded my expectations. Although he was semi-established as a "PUA guru" by the time he made this trip to South America, the differences of culture basically send him back to square one. This turns out to be fortunate, as it makes the narrative more relatable for someone like me (and I suspect most guys who devote unreasonable portions of their mortal lives to getting their egos smashed as they try to crawl out of sexual oblivion, yet see only the tiniest marginal improvements as fruits of their efforts). Roosh gets robbed, develops a chronic intestinal problem, sits cramped through day-long bus rides, and shivers in the cold due to his lack of foresight in packing for high altitudes. Meanwhile he is blown out by women left and right, including even the supposedly easy backpacker girls staying at the hostels. As for Venezuelan girls? Forget it.

His tone of honesty is refreshing throughout all this. He constantly asks himself what the hell he is doing with his life, and in doing so, pulls the anxious reader into the same soul-searching process he is undergoing.Read more ›
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsself deprecating sense of humor

This is a really fun entertaining book, with a self deprecating sense of humor. Imagine a young Larry David before he was famous, broke and traveling through South America. Read more

Published 3 months ago by Bug Girl
1.0 out of 5 starsA Horrible Book on Amazon: One Man's Attempt to Waste Your Time

This book was just strange. He obsesses over this one girl but does not want to commit to her, and obsesses just as much over sleeping with as many women as he can (while secretly... Read more

Published 3 months ago by Seb
5.0 out of 5 starsAn amazing story that will have you on the edge of your seat...

In this book, Roosh took me on a no-holds-barred journey on his trip through South America's vastly diverse countries (poor and modernized) as he searched for the meaning of life,... Read more

Published 4 months ago by Gadiel Russell
4.0 out of 5 starsWell written book about Roosh's travels through South America and ...

Well written book about Roosh's travels through South America and how he got started with his path to his current Notoriety. Read more

Published 5 months ago by Graduate
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Very good book. Roosh V is a talented writer.

Published 6 months ago by Matthew B.
5.0 out of 5 starsUnique tale of wandering around South America that you wont forget

Outstanding travel tale. Laugh out loud funny page after page with a twist at the end.

Published 9 months ago by Michael Roberts
1.0 out of 5 starsAbsolutely hated this book. May be the worst book of my life.

Wow, this was a terrible book. I absolutely hated the main character, and after about 50 pages, I just hoped he would die (or at least get ill enough to have to go home). Read more

Published 10 months ago by O. de Groot
1.0 out of 5 starsOne Star

Horrible.

Published 11 months ago by Amazon Customer
2.0 out of 5 starsThe Book is Repeditive

I have followed Rooshs sites for a while and decided to read his memior. I was intrigued because I figured the book would discuss the perils of traveling and how the grass isn't... Read more

Published 12 months ago by A
3.0 out of 5 starsI liked the book because it was written honestly

Well...I read this book because I wanted my 18 year old son to read it,too. He is planning a solo backpacking trip to Columbia and I am completely freaked out about it. Read more

Published 15 months ago by L. Smith

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