| Tales of the South Pacific was the first of James | | | | South Pacific, especially the chapter on Bora Bora. |
| Mitchner's books I had ever read. After reading it, my | | | | How can one man describe in perfect detail what I |
| girlfriend told me that I drove her crazy in high school | | | | had felt and encountered just by being in Tahiti? But |
| claiming that I was one day going to Tahiti. | | | | he did, and very well. |
| Twenty-five years later, not having spoken of it | | | | Since then I have been to Bora Bora twice. What a |
| since high school, I call my girlfriend out of the blue | | | | wonderful place. Now that my money is not as |
| and said 'Guess where I'm going?' 'Tahiti', she said. | | | | plentiful, I go there vicariously by reading Mitchner's |
| 'How'd you know?', I asked. 'Because you dreamt of | | | | book again. It is the most dog-eared book I have |
| going there since high school', she replied. The book | | | | and the only one I re-read over and over again. |
| made me want to go there. | | | | I have progressed to many other Mithchner tales and |
| So I went to Bora Bora in Tahiti in the South Pacific | | | | have loved them all. The detail he provides is real, the |
| for two weeks. It was gorgeous there. The colors, | | | | feelings he writes about are real, the beauty of the |
| the water, the fish, the people, everything was | | | | land is real. Read this book, go there. You will enjoy it! |
| magical. When I returned, I re-read The Tales of the | | | | |