I enjoy a difficult read, but I completely agree with disjointed that this is not a good choice for most book clubs. I did choose 'Inspiring' for one of my adjectives, but that was solely because I love to travel, and I did appreciate the author's views as someone moving freely about the globe. And some of the stories were very good, but the rest of the book was extremely slow; it took me two months to read, and my book club had to extend our date to meet. I expect that only 1 person out of our 8 really liked this book.