Dastgah: Diary of a Headtrip

Rating:
Summary: Like a Rolling Stone
Review: This book is uneven, patchy, which I think goes along with the author's mindset while travelling and perhaps while writing the book. Some entries into this pasrt-travel diary and part-autobiography are better than others. Especially recommended are accounts of his childhood, a bus ride in Nepal, his time in Iran and his trip to the Paris cemetery where Proust and Jim Morrison are buried. I read it while travelling myself in Southeast Asia and perhaps that is its best use, as a companion while abroad.