Traveling with Skeptics is the much anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed book, Traveling with Philosophes. However, due to the authors honest and straightforward portrayal of the people of France, he has incurred the wrath and condemnation of the French literary and intellectual establishment, with many persons voicing harsh opinions as regards this unique and insightful work.
Insignificant writers cannot be crushed, they lie too flat beneath the foot.
Honore de Balzac
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. Clearly, this most presumptuous writer believes in nothing.
Gustave Flaubert
Since a person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance, this writer must be the happiest man in the world.
Anatole France
As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. As soon as he ceased to be stupid he became merely this writer.
Marcel Proust
This author should be deconstructed with the aid of a guillotine.
Jacques Derrida
There is but one truly philosophical problem, and that is this authors suicide or murder.
Albert Camus
If Hell is other people, then this writer can go to Hell.
Jean-Paul Sartre
A propos de l’auteur
After studying in most of the pubs of Australia and New Zealand, Ken Ewell was awarded both a Master of Applied Beerosophy (MAB) and a Doctor of Peripatetic Pubology (DPP) from the Institute of Manlyness in Sydney. He is responsible for writing a great deal of nonsense, with much of it included his four travel books: No Worries Mate, Voyages of Discovery, Traveling with Philosophes and Traveling with Skeptics. He was the recipient of the 2004 Nussbaum Award for Literary Excellence, despite the fact that he has been found guilty of numerous violations of writing without a literary license.