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

Don't Stop the Carnival

Herman Wouk

Paperback | Pages: 416 pages

Rating: 3.93 | 2908 Users | 315 Reviews

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

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The great comic drama - if it could go wrong, it did. Sometimes I found myself covering my eyes (makes it hard to read) knowing already what was going to befall poor Norman Paperman. As I read, some little gnome in the back of my mind kept poking me, asking "and you think you want to run away to the tropics and never come back? See what happens?" Well, yes, I still do (and the gnome can just shut UP already) - a fun look back at New York society of years gone by, and of island life that is

I picked this up because Jimmy Buffett wrote a musical based on the book, and that intrigued me. The main character, Norman Paperman, is a New Yorker who falls in love with the Caribbean, decides to chuck it all and buy a hotel on a small island called Amerigo. Hilarity and tragedy ensues as he tries to adjust to the peculiar, laid-back lifestyle of the islands. Problems surface that would be unimaginable on the mainland. Like running out of water. I'm grateful for the map of the imaginary

I read this a few years ago, after listing to Jimmy Buffett's concert CD of the play he made out of it. A fun cautionary tale about a middle-aged Broadway PR guy who has a mild heart attack and buys a hotel on a fictional Caribbean island. Very quickly Norman runs afoul of the trials and tribulations of building ownership in the tropics, such as a wonky water cistern, crazy employees, and his financial backer who managed to get one of those crazy employees mad enough to hunt him down with a

I was standing in the office of a tire shop in my small, East-Texas hometown. The air conditioner was ineffectually humming, failing to contest the heat coming through two doors open to the stale baked air outside. A small man was hunched over a small desk, fingers pecking awkwardly at a keyboard, squinting into an undersized monitor. There was a 2013 calendar on the wall. I can't tell you how I would have felt witnessing this scene before reading "Don't Stop the Carnival" - but I can tell you

I���m going to finish this, but more out of grim determination than anything else. There are so many isms that seem to come so naturally to the period. I don���t know why they shock me so. It isn���t as if I never read older works. I think one of the things I find most distressing is his casual assumption that it���s perfectly okay for men to have affairs, but not women. He divides his characters along strict moral and gender lines, and it never occurs to him to do differently. There are good

I just finished reading Don't Stop the Carnival while on vacation in Akumal Mexico (sea turtle sanctuary). Not a better place to read this one. I thoroughly enjoyed this book by Herman Wouk. Being a Jimmy Buffett fan and knowing that he made this book into a musical, I've always intended to read it and finally did at the perfect location. The book is set in the early 60's and is about Norman Paperman's mid-life crisis. Paperman is a NY city Broadway publicity agent who is sick with his life when

A good holiday read.