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I Should Have Just Stayed Home: Award-Winning Tales of Travel Fiascoes
This hilarious book makes life on the road a joy. The fifth volume in a series that proves how easy it is to turn the trip of your dreams into an effortless nightmare, I Should Have Just Stayed Home is perfect bedside reading in the emergency room. In this book stories from around the globe also feature the winners of recent worst trip contests sponsored by the publisher in many states including California, Wyoming, Colorado, Michigan and Illinois.
Sure to delight a wide audience, I Should Have Just Stayed Home takes a close look at the new high security travel environment. The latest volume in RDR's bestselling trouble travel series, which has sold over 130,000 copies. National publicity tour promoting the entire series includes television, radio and newspaper appearances in California, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, New York, Boston and Washington DC.
Sure to delight a wide audience, I Should Have Just Stayed Home takes a close look at the new high security travel environment. The latest volume in RDR's bestselling trouble travel series, which has sold over 130,000 copies. National publicity tour promoting the entire series includes television, radio and newspaper appearances in California, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, New York, Boston and Washington DC.
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275 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2003
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About the author
Roger Rapoport
47 books1 followerAs a newspaper and magazine writer and aviation specialist Roger Rapoport has written in all 50 states, 6 Canadian provinces, and 30 foreign countries. A lifelong sailor and enthusiastic kayaker, he has traveled extensively throughout the Great Lakes, along the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Atlantic Coast.
Roger Rapoport graduated with a Bachelor's of Arts in Journalism in 1968 from the University of Michigan where he was editor of The Michigan Daily.
While working on a story for Ramparts Magazine he met his first wife, Margot Lind. They had a son & daughter and later divorced in 1993.
In 1978, Rapoport began to work at California newspapers, including The San Jose Mercury-News, the San Francisco Chronicle & the Oakland Tribune.
In 1991 Rapoport went to work for Ulysses Press in Berkeley learning about the publishing business.
In 1993 he launched his own publishing effort, RDR Books in Oakland, CA and has since published more than 60 books.
Rapoport met Martha Ferriby, director of Hackley Public Library, while in Michigan in 1995. They married in 2000.
Rapoport moved to Michigan in 2004.
In 2007 RDR became a defendant in the seminal fair use case J.K. Rowling. v. RDR Books, aka The Harry Potter Lexicon Case. Rapoport and Steve Vander Ark, founder of “The Harry Potter Lexicon” website had sought to publish a book version of the Vander Ark's Potter fans' website.
Author J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. claimed copyright infringement. RDR Books claimed the right to publish under the fair use doctrine.
Although RDR lost the case, Judge Robert B. Patterson Jr. awarded the plaintiffs less than $7,000 in damages for infringement, the minimum amount possible.
Judge Patterson concluded that "reference guides in general, including the Lexicon, are transformative in nature and capable of fair use protection, and that the Lexicon could be published with less appropriation from the original works. "
On January 16, 2009, RDR Books released The Lexicon: An Unauthorized Guide to Harry Potter Fiction and Related Materials including more commentary than before the suit.
For more information see: Right to Write.
RDR Books is now closed. Most of the former RDR Book titles are now available from Ashley Creek Books.
Books written and edited by Roger Rapoport are now available from New Lake Books and Lexographic Press.
Rapoport published Steven Faulkner's Waterwalk. With Richard Harris he has since co-produced and adapted Faulkner's story for a film starring Robert Cicchini.
Roger Rapoport graduated with a Bachelor's of Arts in Journalism in 1968 from the University of Michigan where he was editor of The Michigan Daily.
While working on a story for Ramparts Magazine he met his first wife, Margot Lind. They had a son & daughter and later divorced in 1993.
In 1978, Rapoport began to work at California newspapers, including The San Jose Mercury-News, the San Francisco Chronicle & the Oakland Tribune.
In 1991 Rapoport went to work for Ulysses Press in Berkeley learning about the publishing business.
In 1993 he launched his own publishing effort, RDR Books in Oakland, CA and has since published more than 60 books.
Rapoport met Martha Ferriby, director of Hackley Public Library, while in Michigan in 1995. They married in 2000.
Rapoport moved to Michigan in 2004.
In 2007 RDR became a defendant in the seminal fair use case J.K. Rowling. v. RDR Books, aka The Harry Potter Lexicon Case. Rapoport and Steve Vander Ark, founder of “The Harry Potter Lexicon” website had sought to publish a book version of the Vander Ark's Potter fans' website.
Author J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. claimed copyright infringement. RDR Books claimed the right to publish under the fair use doctrine.
Although RDR lost the case, Judge Robert B. Patterson Jr. awarded the plaintiffs less than $7,000 in damages for infringement, the minimum amount possible.
Judge Patterson concluded that "reference guides in general, including the Lexicon, are transformative in nature and capable of fair use protection, and that the Lexicon could be published with less appropriation from the original works. "
On January 16, 2009, RDR Books released The Lexicon: An Unauthorized Guide to Harry Potter Fiction and Related Materials including more commentary than before the suit.
For more information see: Right to Write.
RDR Books is now closed. Most of the former RDR Book titles are now available from Ashley Creek Books.
Books written and edited by Roger Rapoport are now available from New Lake Books and Lexographic Press.
Rapoport published Steven Faulkner's Waterwalk. With Richard Harris he has since co-produced and adapted Faulkner's story for a film starring Robert Cicchini.
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April 20, 2013
Liked the story "The Norman Bates Airport Motel", in which the building is described as "seedy and just this side of scary." The storytellers arrived at that motel, with its 12-inch TV, in Pittsburgh after getting on the wrong flight and ending up in the wrong city.
In "Cliff Hanger," Jean Sigler describes a family's first hiking trip--in the Grand Canyon on South Kaibab Trail. Starting out with a 117 pound backpack, the author whittles it down before heading down the trail for which they are ill-prepared.
"RV's Aren't Us" by Joyce Evans tells the tale of traveling from Larkspur, CA to Death Valley in a rented RV. The rental becomes very expensive after the skylight and door step are ripped off in driving mishaps.
A hot air balloon ride takes a turn for the worse in "Flight of Fancy," Inette Distler. After soaring over the Napa Valley, the balloon hits a downdraft and crashes in a vineyard, with the author suffering a fractured pelvis and other injuries. That brought those travel dreams crashing down to earth!
Reading this frightening book makes one reluctant to even walk out on the front yard sidewalk to pick up the newspaper!
In "Cliff Hanger," Jean Sigler describes a family's first hiking trip--in the Grand Canyon on South Kaibab Trail. Starting out with a 117 pound backpack, the author whittles it down before heading down the trail for which they are ill-prepared.
"RV's Aren't Us" by Joyce Evans tells the tale of traveling from Larkspur, CA to Death Valley in a rented RV. The rental becomes very expensive after the skylight and door step are ripped off in driving mishaps.
A hot air balloon ride takes a turn for the worse in "Flight of Fancy," Inette Distler. After soaring over the Napa Valley, the balloon hits a downdraft and crashes in a vineyard, with the author suffering a fractured pelvis and other injuries. That brought those travel dreams crashing down to earth!
Reading this frightening book makes one reluctant to even walk out on the front yard sidewalk to pick up the newspaper!
June 6, 2014
Some of these stories are great, but others come across as annoying in terms of narration.
I really liked the people that sort of just dealt with their experiences and were able to laugh at them, or thought of them wistfully. Or were able to find some saving grace, something good to take from the experience. The most touching story comes from a woman who fell in love at first sight with an Afghani man who she never saw again, on a trip with unpleasant traveling companions.
Others in the face of absolute disaster were able to produce a passably funny story.
Some of these, though, the narration comes across from an entitled voice. Especially a lot of the middle aged women, like the one who visited the Grand Canyon. I can't relate to that at all.
A wide range of stories, but unfortunately the quality of narration comes in a huge range as well.
I really liked the people that sort of just dealt with their experiences and were able to laugh at them, or thought of them wistfully. Or were able to find some saving grace, something good to take from the experience. The most touching story comes from a woman who fell in love at first sight with an Afghani man who she never saw again, on a trip with unpleasant traveling companions.
Others in the face of absolute disaster were able to produce a passably funny story.
Some of these, though, the narration comes across from an entitled voice. Especially a lot of the middle aged women, like the one who visited the Grand Canyon. I can't relate to that at all.
A wide range of stories, but unfortunately the quality of narration comes in a huge range as well.
March 30, 2014
Vind het heerlijk om reisverslagen te lezen. Dit is een verzameling korte verhalen over alle gruwelen die je tijdens reizen naar verre oorden kunnen overkomen. Ik geloof dat ik dit jaar maar thuis blijf.
June 24, 2014
A fun read for anyone who loves travel. Reminded me of some of my 3rd world adventures/mishaps. Lots of great stories that you can skip around if you want.
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