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With the exception of a few lines, this was a total bore. It‘s about two men (who I never cared about) discussing events and experiences (that I had no reason to care about) on a journey (of which I didn‘t care about) riding a motorcycle (that doesn‘t make it) around South America. My local bookstore‘s Books to Movie event led me astray for the first time.

This book is a great example of liking both the book and the movie, but for different reasons. The movie for its gorgeous cinematography and visuals of South America, and the book for watching a young man start a long journey with youthful exuberance and gradually become more thoughtful and introspective as the miles go by.

I've inherited a small fascination for Cuba from my father. Therefore, I've already read books about the island itself, but this was the first time coming a little closer to Che Guevara himself. I was surprised by his writing style. One really feels his youth, his eagerness. But also writes with wit and has a good feeling for situations. That all makes this book an intriguing work, and I'm glad I finally read it.

@TheAromaofBooks #BookSpinBingo

"Some give the impression they go on living only because it's a habit they cannot shake."

Well... he definitely reads as a fanciful, idealistic, 24 year old heroistic know it all

However it is an interesting read between his friend and himself. 2.5/5📚

Think most people forget he was Argentinian. Book starts in Argentina and travels across South America.
There is a film too but I haven‘t seen it!
#dontcryformeargentina #wanderingjune

Reading for the third time because I inevitably forget how good it is and need to read it again.

I have just started reading Che's 'Motorcycle Diary', bought couple of years back from a train traveling to Kerala in South India...

#juneitselectrifying #bikerboys

#tickettoride

I have been so fascinated by this man that I went to Cuba to visit his mausoleum and the museum attached, and that I read his motorcycle diaries - they were very boring. #heyjune

For a change of pace during the @DeweysReadathon #readathon I'm swapping over to my boyfriend for a bit 😍😍 got distracted from reading for a while due to some very attractive men ripping an old garage down right outside my window, but I've got my focus back lol 👷🏽‍♂️🙋🏼‍♀️💖

This was written almost 70 years ago. Food for thought.

The full moon, silhouetted over the sea, showers the waves with silvery sparks. Sitting on a dune, watching the continuous ebb and flow, we each think our different thoughts. For me, the sea has always been a confidant, a friend which absorbs all you tell it without betraying your secrets, and always gives the best advice–a sound you can interpret as you wish.

I‘m a sucker for a good travelogue.

"Così venne deciso il viaggio, che in ogni momento si sarebbe attenuto alla linea generale su cui era stato progettato: l'improvvisazione... Ogni altro problema che non riguardasse la nostra impresa ci sfuggiva in quel momento, vedevamo solo la polvere della strada e noi sulla moto a divorare chilometri nella fuga verso nord."

#ErnestoCheGuevara #Latinoamericana

"Non è questo il racconto di gesta impressionanti... È un segmento di due vite raccontate nel momento in cui hanno percorso insieme un determinato tratto, con la stessa identità di aspirazioni e sogni..."

#ErnestoCheGuevara #Latinoamericana
#compagnienotturne

So I chose a continent not a country 😝 I've never been to South America, and this book covers several of the countries I'd like to visit. Now that I'm a mom, my travel dreams have evolved. But we'll get there! #NFaboutacountryidliketovisit #UncannyOctober

#drive #anditsaugust

Started a new audiobook while I finished my puzzle. 5+ hours into #24in48.

I remember reading about the #motorcycledriveby Che Guevara through Latin America. His diary is not that interesting, the person himself I find fascinating though. In Cuba, I once visited his mausoleum with a small, quite interesting museum. #90sinjuly

I am a huge fan of first person history accounts so was excited to read Che Guevara's own words. But I felt like I was looking through someone's vacation slides. It isn't until the end that he gives a speech on his beliefs, which could be summed up as US intervention is awful & South Americans are all one people. He then proceeds to be homophobic, sexist, and racist, so one wonders who he considers part of this collective.

So I've gotten to the part where Che is in Cuzco, Peru and every single time he mentions it I think of the Disney character in the Emperor's New Groove, which reminds me of this amazing academic article on the film's relationship with historic cultural plundering (a bit dry but SO informative) http://www.academia.edu/5220054/_2002_Groovin_to_Ancient_Peru._A_Critical_Analys...

Walking my dad's dog & listening to Che Guevara's vacation stories!

This book gave me such good company on my constant train rides to school and work that I held onto it for another week after finishing because I just couldn't part with it.

I really enjoy travel memoir/journal books. This aspect was the only part of the book that was able to hold my interest. Something about it kept me distant and unable to connect. Good. Not great.

Memoir made into film category book #motorcyclediaries. Warm cozy blanket and reuniting with my love for this genre ❤📚

This made me forget the revolutionary and meet the teenager on a daft journey with his best mate. More than anything else this is the writing that made me realise that icons can be flawed, warm, funny people full of youth and friendship. Here's to the next adventure, che.

This book was a huge part of my 2016 goal to see the world from a different perspective, and man! I was challenged. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who wants to view the world differently during election time and challenge what mainstream America is showing us in the news. Also...Che has some AMAZING prose--and this is even a translation!

Haven't needed a highlighter for a book since college, but this prose is just too good. "At night, we would look out over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two of us leaning side by side on the railing, each of us far away, flying in his own aircraft to the stratospheric regions of his own dreams. There we understood that our true vocation was to move for eternity along the roads and seas of the world."

"I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel....Perhaps one day, tired of circling the world, I'll return [home] and settle...at least for a pause while I shift from one understanding of the world to another."

This fall, I challenged myself to get out of my "white girl reads" routine. I've read books from Pakistan, Nigeria, and now South America. I read an LGBTQ book, read some adult fiction (instead of just YA), and I'm really thankful for how my reading life has grown and challenged my ways of thinking. So here's to the next one...Motorcycle Diaries!

#booktober Book set in S America. The movie is fantastic, too.