Art of Travel by Alain de Botton (Fuji-Ya)

The noise at Fuji Ya made it hard to have a good conversation about Art of Travel, but we did our best.  We talked about different kinds of travel, the reasons for and morality of travel, and other topics prompted by de Botton’s generally well received and readable book.  The writer’s device of organizing each chapter around an idea and one or more “guides” or writers generally worked well, but the book was somewhat choppy, as if each chapter was a stand-alone essay.  Bill and Max missed this one and they were the next two to suggest future books.  In their absence, Phil urged us to pick Tinkers, a book that he mentioned last time.  So we did.