A devastatingly funny satire on the whole idea of student travel,and particularly the India back-pack trail. Dave travels to India with Liz because he thinks he might be able to get her into bed. Liz travels to India with Dave because she wants a companion for her voyage of spiritual discovery. She loves it. He dreams of frosty mornings, pints of lager and restaurants where vegetable curry is only a side-dish...
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For anyone with the slightest curiosity about travelling, or even if you've been, William Sutcliffe's tremendously funny Are You Experienced? will have you in stitches. The protagonist is Dave, a 19-year-old Londoner on a gap year before starting university. He had no intention of leaving Europe, until his best mate James, who's about to go on a trek through the Himalayas, challenges him. "Do you want to learn Fwench David? Something pwactical for your CV?" he taunts when he hears Dave is going to be a waiter at a Swiss ski resort.
Admitting his fears, ("Suffering, danger and poverty are all fine by me, but dirt and disease are two things I happen to hate") Dave is determined to prove he's not a coward and accepts an invitation to go to India with James's girlfriend Liz (in anticipation of consummating their burgeoning relationship). But by the time they get on the plane it all goes downhill. Bickering constantly, their adaption to India couldn't be more different. Liz embraces it--hugging beggars and wearing saris, while Dave's dry-humoured rants, scepticism and fear of the unknown eventually drive her away in search of her "centre".
The characters the pair meet along the way draw upon all the old hippy-traveller stereotypes, but there's also a few new ones in keeping with the times. There's Ranj--a British-born Indian who hates Indians; Jez--a public-school-educated undergraduate whose travels are being funded by daddy; and Caz and Fee who experience the side-effects of "Intimate Yoga".
While this story is ultimately a funny piece of fiction, it also addresses more serious considerations, such as cultural stereotypes, peer pressures and making life-changing decisions.
This book is irresistible and seasoned travellers will empathise with the situations Dave finds himself in, (his graphic description of a bout of Dehli-belly is guaranteed to make you feel sorry for him, and nauseous too). Be prepared to laugh out loud. --Angela Boodoo
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This is a devastatingly funny satire on the whole idea of student travel, and particularly the India back-pack trail. Dave travels to India with Liz because he thinks he might be able to get her into bed. Liz travels to India with Dave because she wants a companion for her voyage of spiritual discovery. She loves it. He dreams of frosty mornings, pints of lager and restaurants where vegetable curry is only a side-dish...
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Der junge britische Autor William Sutcliffe entführt uns in "Are you experienced" auf den dreimonatigen Trip eines Rucksacktouristen durch Indien. Für Dave, die Hauptperson, aus dessen Sicht die Geschichte erzählt wird, gibt es einen wesentlichen Beweggrund, die mit dieser Reise verbundenen Unannehmlichkeiten auf sich zu nehmen: er versucht, Liz, die Freundin seines besten Freundes, mit der er nach Indien fliegt, ins Bett zu bekommen. Die beiden führen eine in jeder Hinsicht außergewöhnliche Beziehung, die Sutcliffe dem Leser in seiner typischen, herrlich sarkastischen Art näherbringt. Von den oft skurrilen Ereignissen Daves während seines Indienaufenthalts handelt nun "Are you experienced". Dave und Liz treffen auf ihre Reise die verschiedensten Charaktere, junge Rucksacktouristen, die auf der Suche nach ihrem Seelenfrieden sind, einen Inder, der vor seiner reichen Familie und einer arrangierten Hochzeit flieht, einen zynischen englischen Journalisten und so weiter. Bis Dave am Ende bei seiner Rückkehr zu einem andern Menschen geworden ist. Sutcliffe schafft es jederzeit, seine Hauptfigur derart sympathisch darzustellen, dass man gar nicht anders kann, als sich voll mit ihr zu identifizieren und mit ihr mitzufühlen. Der teils bissige Sarkasmus, den Dave an den Tag legt, macht dieses Buch (wie andere Sutcliffe-Bücher auch) zu einem humoristischen Meisterwerk, das man so schnell es geht zu verschlingen sucht. Einziger Kritikpunkt sind für mich die teils unnötig detaillierten und dadurch ein wenig ordinär wirkenden Passagen, in denen Dave seine Krankheit und seinen "Fastgeschlechtsverkehr" mit Liz beschreibt. Dennoch kann ich jedem nur raten, sich dieses Buch zuzulegen.... Lesen Sie weiter... ›
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My girlfriend gave me this book as a humorous alternative to the dark stuff that I normally read, so I was expecting some in-your-face, smart-aleck pulp that a reviewer somewhere thought was trying to be funny. I started reading it at 11 o'clock at night, and I have to say that by the time I finished it, four hours later in the wee small hours, I was pleasantly shocked to discover that it was actually very funny in a cynical sense, and overall a deeper and more insightful read than I had first expected.
Some have called the storyline pointless and the characters 2-dimensional, but that is the point of the story: it satirises the latest PC fad. Anyone who says it is pure pulp cannot have read the part where Dave encounters a Reuters journalist, a passage where the author's intent for the novel is laid bare. With Liz and Dave, Sutcliffe accurately depicts the two main types of traveller swarming into the lesser regions of the world: the self-obsessed type who make out like everything is 'karmic' and 'spiritual' without the first clue of what that means, and the type who travel and 'experience poverty' just because everyone else is doing it and they can put it on their CV. It is very fitting that, whilst following Dave around India, we learn next to nothing about the country, and likewise, with Liz on a spiritual quest, we get about as spiritual as who she's sleeping with. Add to this some very accurate portrayals of travelling (such as how when you return home, everything seems strange), and some weird and wonderful (and morally corrupt) supporting characters, not to mention all manner of bizarre situations, and it's a riot.
Don't believe the nay-sayers.
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Von Mariella Aust
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Amazing, stunning, funny....makes you wanna go to India immediately. With loads of self-irony this first person narration makes you smile and laugh, feel with compassion for the troubles of almost grown-up hero Dave, who accompanies his friend Liz on a three-months-trip to india, travelling through the country when acutally not knowing where to go or what to do there. In love with Liz, Dave soon finds himself alone in a crowded country heading nowhere but finding out what travelling can all be about. William Sutcliff's terrific style of writing takes you on a great journey to India....and maybe to yourself. Absolutely worth reading!!!
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The novel "Are you experienced" is told by the first person narrator Dave and it starts off well but after a while it becomes more and more boring so that I had to force myself to continue reading.
The story is not very funny or amusing and the shitting and puking scenes do not make it a better book. It is only disgusting! So I can not find any reason for laughing.
The characters act in a predictable way and there is not even one exciting moment in the whole book. The fact that Dave only travels with his best friendŽs girlfriend Liz to India to get her into bed says it all. Dave is not even interested in India or in travelling and so it is obvious why he does not know what to do or where to go in India. When he is in conflict with Liz or another traveller (which happens really often), all he wants is to go home. So he is always crying that he wants to go home to mummy! When Dave is not complaining or when he knows where to go, travelling just means how to get his ticket.
I can neither understand his behaviour nor could I identify with him.
He tells us how he experiences India, but what we get to know of this country is next to nothing. Apart from a few descriptions of the landscape, the book presents us nothing about India and its culture.
So neither Dave nor the reader learn anything from his trip to India.
So I did not enjoy reading this book because it is just undemanding and not really funny, but boring. Therefore I would never advise anyone to read it.
The story is not very funny or amusing and the shitting and puking scenes do not make it a better book. It is only disgusting! So I can not find any reason for laughing.
The characters act in a predictable way and there is not even one exciting moment in the whole book. The fact that Dave only travels with his best friendŽs girlfriend Liz to India to get her into bed says it all. Dave is not even interested in India or in travelling and so it is obvious why he does not know what to do or where to go in India. When he is in conflict with Liz or another traveller (which happens really often), all he wants is to go home. So he is always crying that he wants to go home to mummy! When Dave is not complaining or when he knows where to go, travelling just means how to get his ticket.
I can neither understand his behaviour nor could I identify with him.
He tells us how he experiences India, but what we get to know of this country is next to nothing. Apart from a few descriptions of the landscape, the book presents us nothing about India and its culture.
So neither Dave nor the reader learn anything from his trip to India.
So I did not enjoy reading this book because it is just undemanding and not really funny, but boring. Therefore I would never advise anyone to read it.
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Wir mussten für die Schule dieses Buch lesen.. Ich hab mir erst gedacht Oje... was da wohl kommt.. Aber war total begeistert.... Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 1 Monat von Marina veröffentlicht
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Worst crap since the invention of softcore pornography
The novel is about a young who just finished school and decides to spent 3months in india to impress the girlfriend of his absent best friend. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 15. Januar 2006 von Tim Kucharzewski
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Zynisch und gut.
Wer sich als Rucksackreisender für Asien oder speziell Indien interessiert, der sollte dieses Buch lesen. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 6. September 2003 von hrh1916
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One of the funniest books i ever read
I loved the book. when you're once in it you can't get enough of it. The author's writing is easy to understand and i had no problems to imagine the scene. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 14. Februar 2002 veröffentlicht
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Ganz nett, aber nicht der Knaller
Ganz nett geschriebenes Buch. Die Hauptfigur geht einem aber zwischendurch mehrmals ziemlich auf die Nerven. Anfang und Ende des Buches sind gut, dazwischen ein paar Längen. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 21. März 2001 veröffentlicht
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Einfach klasse!
Es war ein wirklich tolles Buch, und ich muss sagen, schade, dass es nicht noch länger war! Einerseits voller Pointen und andererseits entlarvt es die Widersprüchlichkeit... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 11. Januar 2001 veröffentlicht
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I want William Sutcliffe's other books!
There is not much more that needs to be said about "Are You Experienced" that has not been said already. It is a really good book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 12. Juni 2000 veröffentlicht
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If you only read one book this month, don't make it this one
I really wanted to enjoy this book. I was going through Bridget Jones Withdrawal and reading any lurid covered humourous looking pulp I could get my hands on. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 11. Juni 2000 von H. J. Wakenshaw
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as british as tandoori
misfortune has never been grosser or funnier. join dave the traveller as he enjoys a thoroughly rotten few months on the backpacker trails of india. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 5. Juni 2000 von Drummond Berman
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