- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Aug 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671758187
- ISBN-13: 978-0671758189
- Product Dimensions: 22.1 x 14.7 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,006,118 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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I recently picked up The Third Man Effect (or Factor) published by Cannongate in 2009. Jack Hitt described the phenomenon very nicely and wittily. As a relative "newcomer" to the big walk to Santiago, I have no intention of making the pilgrimage, but am happy to read a "quality" description of events on the walk. The motion-picture The Way with Martin Sheen was losely based on Jack Hitt's account. I've never seen the movie!
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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Wherever you go, there you are
4 Feb 1998
Format:Hardcover
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The author is frank, spares neither himself nor others, and his writing is often screamingly funny. His fellow pilgrims are a motley collection of rogues, jocks, fanatics, earnest believers, and clueless tourists -- but even in more pious eras, people went on pilgrimages for all sorts of reasons, few of them lofty (witness the Canterbury Tales). Hitt never manages to pin down his own motivation for making the trip, doubtless disappointing readers who expect every journey to end in a blinding flash of insight. But I found his candor refreshing: he tells it like it is and doesn't pretend to a piety he doesn't feel, even when he's momentarily overcome with emotion upon reaching his goal. Chaucer had it right: a pilgrimage is a metaphor for life itself, we're all on this road together, and, if you keep your eyes open, you'll learn that the journey IS the destination.
30 of 39 people found the following review helpful
A disappointment
1 Nov 1997
Format:Hardcover
Having read a favorable review of this book in one of the Seattle papers, and having heard my wife tell of the Pilgrim's Route to Santiago de Compostela, I looked forward to reading this and was very prepared to like it. Though Hitt is clearly a writer of some talent, the narrative was rather poorly drawn and aimless. There was simply not much interesting in his story. What's worse, the Kirkus Reviewer is right: Jack Hitt does adopt a smug tone, discussing the religious aspects of the journey and the concept of "god" (with a pointedly lower-case "g") in a belittling manner at every turn. He seems to incur experience but to absorb none of it; he seems to learn nothing, because he knew everything he wanted to know when he started. In short, this is a regrettable effort.
10 of 13 people found the following review helpful
I am inspired to be a pilgrim myself
6 Mar 1998
Format:Hardcover
I'm about as "religious" as Jack Hitt, but this book piqued my interest in the North of Spain, Romanesque churches and pilgrimages. Why would I do it? Well, the same reason as the author did; historical, architectural, for the connection with the past. In the Middle Ages, it seemed that pilgrimages were a great excuse to travel and there still is a culture of the pilgrim that exists on the pigrim road. When I travel to Spain I will most assuredly travel a part of the Pilgrims Road. I won't get to see as much as Jack Hitt did but I hope I will see enough to recall his ironic humor. When my daughters are old enough I hope to travel the road with them, as pilgrims.
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