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

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

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Ratings: 3.93 From 2908 Users | 315 Reviews

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At first, I was into this book as the writing is good, the story zips along, and I enjoyed picturing NYC in the 50s. But as it progressed, I found it harder and harder to keep at it. Every bad thing that could happen does happen and poor Norman could never catch a break. I know I should not feel sorry for him, but I did. It wasn't even all the typecasting and slurs that bugged me so much since I was able to let those go as being the norm when this was written in 1965. It was that one disaster

Here's the problem: you can't write 380 pages of comedic farce, then abruptly switch to tragedy for the last 20 pages. You're humming along contentedly with this colorful Caribbean pageant, and all the sudden, it's rather like being kicked in the gut. Too bad about the ending, because I mostly enjoyed the book up to that point, except for the abundant racism and homophobia.

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

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 brought this 1960s-era novel along to read on our recent vacation, and it ended up being a really good choice. In it, native New Yorker Norman Paperman chucks his stressful show-biz/theatre life in the city to buy a run-down hotel on a small Caribbean island, and what ensues -- the constant hotel disasters, the quirky new friends he meets, his naïveté about island politics and work ethics, etc. -- makes for really funny and entertaining reading. It was so easy to imagine the hilarious missteps

Have you ever wanted to run away from life and begin again in the tropics? If you are anything like Norman Pepperman it is a bad idea! But I am so glad that he suffered from this particular midlife crisis and that Herman Wouk allowed me the pleasure of witnessing the antics that followed. If anything could go wrong ... it did. And poor Norman tried so hard to stay positive and upbeat. He tried so hard to make his new beach life work. This book made me laugh out loud when I was listening in bed

I picked this up on the clearance shelf, probably for no other reason than the cover attracted my attention. I had no clue Jimmy Buffet had helped the author write a musical based on this book.The blurb calls the book a non-stop, rip-roaring comedy. I admit the story is non-stop, but it wasn't exactly laugh-out-loud funny. I found it humorous and enjoyed the writing, but it wasn't the funniest thing I've ever read.Also, I was a little put out by the narrator's prejudices against both blacks and