[WanderingSoul]

I read the book a couple of years ago and loved it. One of my favorite books for sure, and really lights a fire under your ass to go travel. If you guys like Roosh's book, a book titled "Imagine: A Vagabond Story" is similar and very good as well. I read them both back to back and wish I still had them so I could re-read them.

[blurb]

Roosh:

Is "A Dead Bat in Paraguay" on the Kindle the updated version or the old version?

[Roosh]

(12-16-2011 09:05 PM)blurb Wrote:  

Roosh:

Is "A Dead Bat in Paraguay" on the Kindle the updated version or the old version?

Updated. For all my books, the paperback and kindle are identical.

[Brazilianguy]

I just finished reading the book and liked it a lot!
I read it in 3 days.

The best parts are when Roosh goes hitting on chicks with the hostel guys.

I also found Roosh´s affair with Mariana very touching, specially because I think most of us guys who are in the game are ultimately looking for a quality girl. As a matter of fact, I think it´s the fact that most of us lacked the experience of having a quality girlfriend during our teens that served as the initial stimulus for learning how to pick up chicks.

When I was a kid living in Sao Paulo in the 80s I remember that the older brothers of my friends (I was 8-10 at the time) all had girlfriends who really cared for them. When they got sick with a cold or a flu it was very common for the girlfriends to take care of them, and this is something we don´t see anymore in Brazil.

I hear that Roosh says Brazilian women are getting more feminist by the day, and I agree.

I would also like to read more about that from you, Roosh, if possible, because I like the way you flesh things out.

[JoyStick]

SPOILER (slightly)

i finished this book about a week ago. it took me 3 days. this is definitely a must read for all men, period! i'm a big fan of roosh's writing in general but this book honestly surpassed my expectation. i was really invested in the book. i kind of felt like i was on the journey with him. there were parts where i was really rooting for roosh to get laid and was sad for him when it didn't work out.

roosh, my favorite part is of course your pick up adventures with your hostel buddies, but a part that really stood out was when you talked about the miners and how they probably would love the high-paying but boring and soul-crushing job you had back in the states. it's crazy how we take our options for granted while other people in the world have to either stay poor or work a job that is a lot of work and extremely dangerous and bad for their health. pretty insightful stuff.

oh yeah, and you should've attempted to bang that one chick that rode in the jeep with you. the australian dude she was went seem like a total prick and a fuck'n hater.

and just out of curiosity.. do you keep in touch with the predator or beppe or any of your other travel buddies?

[Roosh]

No I'm out of touch with just about everyone, though I see their FB updates occasionally. Out of sight, out of mind, you know?

[Hencredible Casanova]

Just read this book for the first time on my Kindle Fire - at quite a deal by the way at just $2.99. I must say, I laughed nonstop throughout - in large part due to the ubiquitous toilet humor documented in vivid detail.

I also felt very bad due to the nearly incessant bouts of illness Roosh suffered throughout his journey, making many instances of his trip excruciatingly unpleasant. I embarked on a South America pilgrimmage myself for several months a couple years ago - and stayed on the "gringo trail" for Ecuador and Peru - but was fortunately in very good health (I consumed a fair amount of yogurt for the good bacteria cultures) and was able to enjoy each country for what it had to offer.

As one who's personally traveled all of the countries Roosh explored in South America, reading the book was a delightful experience that forced me to reflect on some very nostalgic memories. I even went as far as to visit the facebook profiles of the many contacts I have from that time of my life and even dropped some messages to a couple of them.

For that, I am thankful. Also, it's worth noting that this book was written with illuminating honesty and integrity - a virtue Roosh deserves credit for. It was as if I was reading an account from a close friend I've known for years, which was further enhanced by Roosh's familar family background and upbringing that he discusses in the book.

I'm looking forward to the release of Bang Poland and also checking out some of his works that I have not had a chance to look at yet.

[Brosemite]

Just finished this book while traveling as I was mighty impressed with all the recollections.

Highlights

1) Predator. What work supposedly slaying 20 in a 30 day visit in Brazil. Probably my favorite part along with the camradarie theme overall.

2) I can relate to the guilt trips from family...especially from an Asian one where they are delivered gratuitously from older sister, mom, and endless relatives.

3) Can relate to the part about leaving job, moving back home with parents (just did), going to S. America for some time before starting a new again.

4) I couldn´t fathom having the guts to explore all those countries with no hostels, lodging, or anything booked in advance. Glad you survived all those experiences to share them with us through this novel. Makes Roosh even moreso deserving of all these international notches nowadays since he managed to survive that trip.

5) Note to self to avoid surfer hostels where everyone is smelly, walking around barefoot, not showering, and eventually twisting & turning in bed later on....

6) Even if the magic was successfully rekindled with Mariana on the 2nd visit in the epilogues, would the perceived cons of Rio de Janeiro being safety, inflated costs, and lack of gastronomic diversity/social scene eventually won out in ending things with that affair?

(Btw, I agree that Rio doesn´t offer enough in terms of higher percentage of beautiful women, social scene, gastronomy, amenities, nightlife, and overall cosmopolitan living options all while possessing most expensive rent in the world right now. I can relate to the charms of the local culture but it alone still doesn´t warrant the high cost of living there)

[Teedub]

Finished the book last night and was so utterly moved, impressed and sad it was over I just sent Roosh a PM to let him know what a book it was. Very 'unputdownable' and exciting, with hilarious and thrilling anecdotes, yet melancholic with sprinkles of heartbreaking humanity - a great combination. That said, my question would be this: If you had three-six months and a fair amount of money, where would you go if you went again and would you do the hostels again or private rooms?

[east and west]

I am curious about

What happened before roosh ?

Was there a community at all? I first heard about game when I was already like mid mtwenties, before that I really had no experience with girls and studied a lot in high school and college. Don't remember there was something like roosh those days..... Especially since I grew up in china. All I heard was people saying Thailand there are many people who hook up,and thai girls are sexually open minded..

[beta_plus]

Captain Capitalism just reviewed the book:
http://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com/20...aguay.html

Best Line:
"[Roosh] has an epiphany. You can kind of see it like Anakin Skywalker switching to Darth Vader."

DBIP will definitely be my next manosphere kindle purchase.

[InternationPlayboy]

Roosh, I've been reading your blog for almost 5 years now, yet the only book I've read of your thus far is bang. I finally bought a copy of dead bat (wanted to read before smiley face), I didn't realize it was 600 pages +, I'm definately looking forward to reading it. I wanted to buy the dead bat, smiley face, and 30 bangs trilogy last weekend when it was on sale but I was broke.

[InternationPlayboy]

I read almost 300 pages tonight, almost done. So far I'm loving it, hard to put down.

[InternationPlayboy]

Finished it up a couple days ago. Great read. It took me back to South America, we even covered a bit of the same ground. I could relate to the book in a lot of ways.

What a bummer on the stomach/ health issues. It sounds like it really put a damper on your trip, but props to you for pulling through and making the best of it.

Argentina seems like a tough spot man. Almost makes me not want to go.

I would have liked to see a little more of your opinions on places like Ecuador and Peru. I never really got your take on what you thought about the girls or food. Would have been fun to hear another persons perspective who's actually traveled to many countries in the region. A lot of people I met in those countries didn't have a whole lot of reference.

A bit of a tough break with Mariana, but people change. I'm sure where you're at today, you're probably happy everything panned out the way it did. It's tough to keep a bond so far away over such a long period of time.

Overall, great read. I'm looking into purchasing 30 bangs right now.

[Roosh]

I've lost count how many times I've told that Mariana story to women. Makes them teary every time.

[InternationPlayboy]

Instead of 30 bangs I went with the Brazil Compendium. I really enjoyed Dead Bat. I wanted to read a bit more on your travel stories. Great stuff man, keep up the good work!

[shotgun]

I've finished reading the book this past week. My favourite part was Cordoba, when you're trying to crack the code of Argentine women with the other hostel backpackers. Also liked the Potosí report, which made me want to pay a visit to the zinc mines. I think it's a touching break when you talk about the poverty you've experienced, especially when you arrive in Paraguay. Sadly we (South Americans) just learn to become used to it at an early age.

So after your last South American trip (the one that spawned your Colombia, Brazil and Argentina guides), do you plan on ever returning to South America? I think SA loses a bit of its charm once you visit Eastern Europe, especially with Brazil and Colombia getting increasingly westernized...

[worldwide2014]

I would like to start out by saying that I have found this forum and the work that Roosh does to be very helpful. I like the self-improvement attitude and environment that Roosh and the forum have here on the forums/blog.

I finished reading “A Dead Bat in Paraguay” a couple of weeks ago and I had to wait to get approved to post on the forums. Keep in mind that this review will have some little spoilers in it.

The best way to describe this book is amazing. Before I started reading this book I figured that it would be mostly about game. I was happily surprised to find out that in this book Roosh really gives you a deep insight into his personal life and what was going on at his life at the time. What really surprised me was just how humble he was in this book. In this book he really showed you his weaknesses in every aspect of his life. He doesn’t come across as somebody who puts himself on a pedal stool, but instead in the way that he writes with the information that he shares he comes across as just another guy. I believe because of the fact that he wrote about himself this book covered a wide variety of topics including but not limited to game, culture and his life in general.

The parts of the book where he talked about game were really enjoyable to me. I only started reading Roosh’s blog about three months ago. While I have looked into some of his past articles that he’s posted online, I’m more familiar with his current work that he’s been putting out. In this book you see a younger and more naïve Roosh then what you see today. It was great because of the fact that while you were reading the book, you could see that Roosh was learning the game and really struggling with it. He takes you through all the mistakes that he made with game and how he learned from those mistakes to make himself better.

I was surprised as well to read about all the cultural topics that Roosh touched upon in this book. His critics would probably say that he isn’t “cultural” and only thinks about women but that’s just not true. He describes how he really tried to relate to the people and he touches upon a lot of his observations in the book. For example in the book he saw an Ecuadorian man and was thinking about how it wasn’t fair that this man had to work so hard. But it wasn’t only sad observations that he made regarding the culture. He would also make observations that were funny but true such as the soap thing. I remember personally when I went through Mexico thinking about how much I missed public bathrooms in the USA because the ones in Mexico (outside of the tourist hotspots but a lot of times even in the tourist hotspots) wouldn’t have soap, toilet paper or paper towels. It’s funny how Roosh noticed the same thing in Bolivia with the bathrooms never having soap or how the food handling by people cooking food left little to wonder about why you were getting the shits a day later! Or in the book when some girls in one of the countries asked him what Americans thought about their country. The response given was great with something along the lines of “most of Americans don’t think about your country” because it’s true (it was one of the smaller countries in South America).

In typical Roosh fashion, he tells it like it is and he was no different when it came to talking about the culture aspect of this book. At one point he talks about how one of the tourist attraction sites that he sees is a let down. He was then ridiculed by some other people because he didn’t like this site. The most important part of this book as it pertains to travel in my opinion came when he talked about how it wasn’t the beautiful nature that a country like Bolivia has that will stick out to you at the end of your travels. Roosh is right in that while nature can be beautiful and I don’t doubt for one minute that the Bolivian Southwest is breath taking, in the end it’s not the sites that matter. Rather, it’s your interactions with people that you will keep in your memories. One of Roosh’s examples in the book was the memories that he had with his two friends Mateo and Alex. Taking a five month trip myself similar to Roosh but on different sides of the world, I was surprised to come to the same conclusion that Roosh did. While it’s cool as hell to see the amazing tourist sites, in the end it’s the people that you interact with while you’re traveling that matters the most and the memories that you make with your new friends that you make on the road. It’s also what you will remember most vividly when your travels end.

The final part of the book is when Roosh talks about what was going on in his life at the time throughout the book and how his travels affected him. He mentions in the book how by the end of traveling for about half a year, it felt like he had been away for five years. I liked the conversations with friends he made when they would tell him that nothing would change when he went back home because the same people would be doing the same things. He shares his feelings towards what it’s like living in a hostel for months on end and what hostel life is like. He mentions how close he would become with friends but how these friendships would never last or if they did last Roosh and his friends would never be as close as they were in the hostel when they were traveling together.

Going back again to how Roosh doesn’t bullshit around the subject, he goes on to write about the hardships of traveling. It’s not always easy traveling for that amount of times. There are times you get bored, or you get sad to leave your friends, or times when you just want to stay put in one place for a period of time without moving. He touches upon the fact that it can get really lonely when you’re traveling on the road for that long and not staying put in a place long enough to forge any long term relationships with friends or with women. Dealing with other cultures can be very challenging at times. Roosh goes into great detail about the realities of traveling.


But what was probably the best part of the book is when he writes about his relationship with Mariana. The whole time he was traveling Roosh was looking to get laid, and along comes this Brazilian girl. I’m probably a little biased towards the story because I myself had an experience with a Brazilian girl that while brief, left an impact on me. Roosh actually falls for this girl and the way that he writes about her makes her seem like she really could be different from the rest of the girls that Roosh talks about. I have to say on a personal note that Roosh, it took a lot of fortitude to be able to walk away from Mariana without expecting to see her again. I honestly don’t think I would have been able to do that.

I know I’m probably the only one on this forum, but while reading the book you can’t help but to have wished that it would have worked out between Roosh and Mariana. You would hope that in the future if the two ever met again, maybe that at that point it would be the right time in their lives for each other. Beta dreams maybe, but that would make for a good ending I think.

In summary, this book is a great book for anybody who has ever traveled or is going to travel. If you have traveled for months at a time like Roosh did in this novel, then you will be able to relate to so many different parts of this book. You’ll be able to relate to game, women, making friends, hostel life, cultural differences and really in general just what travel is all about at a young age. If you are thinking about traveling it’s also a good idea to read this book as well because it will tell you about the hardships that traveling long term like that can bring. When I finished with this book I felt like this was a turning point in Roosh’s life, perhaps a time when Roosh was transitioning from a boy to a man even though he was a little bit older when he was traveling through South America.

On a side note I would like to thank Roosh for replying to my e-mail in a quick manner when I had a question regarding his book. I wasn’t expecting that and I do appreciate the response as it shows you care about your customers who purchase your books and visit the site. Keep up the good work Roosh! Please keep us posted on Anna as well, I’m curious as to how that story has played out!

[MrSpice]

So far I've read 25% of this book so far and I absolutely love it!

[ridiculous_nicholas]

I read this book twice when I first got it. The writing style is amazing and the stories are akin to Seinfeld: a book about nothing. If told by a lesser storyteller the whole trip would have seemed like a mundane journey but the tiny attention to details and all of the observations (which most people themselves would make, but never include in a story) make it a great book. The end was super depressing though and I felt kind of down for a few hours after reading it. It kind of reminded me of how I felt after watching Requiem for a Dream, but thankfully not that bad. I also think that most people should consider the time period that this took place while reading. Its easy to wonder why someone would just follow Lonely Planet but this was before smart phones were big and the many online resources we now take for granted just weren't there.

The only thing that confuses me is Cordoba. On Roosh's chance of hooking up page he has it listed 4 out of 5. In the book it sounded like the place was impossible to get laid in without an almost nightly effort and lots of time.

[Baltimore Bachelor]

Just finished reading this book and I must say it is AMAZING. The part with mariana made me feel so sad. I honestly never would've expected to feel sad by reading one of your books.

[Off The Reservation]

I am reading this now which I got on Kindle some months back. Absolutely I love you writing style, and it is of particular interest to me having visited all 13 South American countries as of 2013.

[Off The Reservation]

I was reading this today at a coffee shop while enjoying the breeze and talent. Got to the part about Mariana and could not put it down until the end. Ironically, there were a couple of Brazilian girls next to me wondering what I was laughing about.

Its funny, I laughed out loud several dozen times. Picks up on peculiarities and oddities about people and places that you see while traveling.

The unexpected twist in the end is Mariana. I am not one for spoilers, you just have to read this.

[Rhyme or Reason]

I liked the book a lot. I gotta say Roosh, you are one tenacious mother fucker! I would have thrown in the towel and gone home after all the sickness, exhaustion, and rejections. The book actually makes me not want to go to south america. The epilogue with Mariana was kind of sad, but humanizing.


I'm about the age you were when the book was written so it was cathartic reading this and living vicariously through your experience in this book. Thanks for the entertainment!

[Gas]

I have it on Kindle and read it a few years ago. I think I'll read it again - it was that entertaining. We need to plant 100 copies or so in all the hostel book exchanges around the world - I'm sure every guy, red pill or not, will love it.