A review by mpclemens
Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon

3.0

"A Tale of Adventure" yes, but written in Chabon's literary style, which can mean unpacking a good deal of verbiage to get at the heart of a scene. Entertaining enough, though it's more Webster and Roget than Crosby and Hope, for the titular Gentlemen of the Road are polyglots who feel inserted into their roles, like scholars play-acting as savages. I think it's most telling that Chabon's "Afterword" is as long as a chapter itself.

A fine enough book, but for a true "Tale of Adventure" there could stand to be more actual adventuring, and less expansive vocabulary.