I have just now finished reading Through Travel and Error and this has to be one of those books that you are not sure how to review or even classify. When I first ordered this book, I thought it would be a fairly straightforward travel memoir. Through Travel and Error is a travel memoir, but its not exactly your standard run of the mill type.

First off, its pretty explicit - which came as a bit of a pleasant surprise to me. Secondly, its really funny - the author has a great sense of humour and its obvious that he does not take himself, travelling or life in general all that seriously. This actually makes this a perfect type of book to read in this difficult economy where it seems as though everything is soooooo serious.

Thirdly, I kept asking myself 'is this guy really this means of a spaz???". I mean some of the stuff he does and some of the stunts he gets into are pretty silly, which, of course, just makes this book even funnier. Matt seems to spend most of his travelling days either drinking, drunk or hungover and you would think he would somehow learn his lesson, but he doesn't - he just keeps going on his merry way.

The writing is direct, down to earth and like I said, raunchy at times (the barfing stories where quite disgusting).....

I actually really, really liked this book and it is a very quick read. I had it read in a few hours (it helps that I was on a train and was not distracted or disturbed!). This was a fun, perfect read.