The Mosquito Coast
 

The Mosquito Coast

by Paul Theroux

In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life. But his utopian experiment takes a dark turn when his obsessions lead the family toward... (read more)

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I think I like stories where the author using a small group of people to symbolize the whole of society. This story is a good look at how people easily change from those with good intentions to those who have a problem with moderation. It is great to have standards and convictions but when those things hurt other people or keep you from being productive it is a problem.

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