Ignorance continues to thrive

Happy to have found an interesting sounding travel audio book I was severly disappointed. I haven't read or heard anything so full of misinformation and self-rightousness in a long time. The author puts her own - very ignorant and narrow-minded - ethics to use on a totally different culture and mentality, stays aloof and not-understanding above other peoples opinion and education and therefore misses out on the whole Indian-experience.
The story involves more readings out of history and guide books than actually something happening. And if there is something happening it's either complaints about treating of women or animals, driving around, hygiene or hotel descriptions. The description of women's roles in India is more a cliché than actual truth. Animal sacrifice might not be "accepted" by western culture - but only for the past few centuries; a few hundred years ago the ancestors of the author have surely happily sacrificed animals for whatever reason. The title of the book is utterly misleading - probably just there for the book to sell, because passages out of the "love book" are out of place and not related to the rest of the story. As if put in afterwards by the command of the editor. The book is shallow and is starting to grind on the listener's nerves after a while. The colonial point of view shared by the author better matches British mentality a hundred years ago than modern times.
Why 3 stars? Because Jane Clifton as the narrator is very good - accents sound believable and she she manages to invoke some interest in an otherwise tedious book.
Result: not really worth your money

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