Upgrade: A Cautionary Tale of a Life Without Reservations

Nonfiction, Travel
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Author: Carr, Paul ISBN: 9781934708781
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser Publication: April 1, 2012
Imprint: Disinformation Books Language: English
Author: Carr, Paul
ISBN: 9781934708781
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser
Publication: April 1, 2012
Imprint: Disinformation Books
Language: English

Bored, broke, and struggling to survive in one of the most expensive cities on earth, Paul Carr comes to the surprising realization that it would actually be cheaper to live in a luxury hotel in Manhattan than in his tiny one-bedroom London apartment. Inspired by that possibility, he sells his possessions, abandons his old life, and starts living entirely without commitments as a modern-day nomad.

Thanks to Paul's ability to talk his way into increasingly ridiculous situations, what begins as a one-year experiment soon becomes a permanent lifestylea life lived in luxury hotels and mountain-top villas. A life of fast cars, Hollywood actresses, and Icelandic rock stars. Of 6,000-mile booty calls, of partying with eight hundred female hairdressers dressed only in bedsheets, and of nearly dying at the hands of Spanish drug dealers. And, most bizarrely of all, a life that still costs less than his surviving on cold pizza in his old apartment.

Yet, as word of Paul's exploits starts to spreadfirst online, then through a national newspaper column and eventually a book dealhe finds himself forced constantly to up the stakes in order to keep things interesting. With his behavior spiraling to dangerousand sometimes criminallevels, he is forced to ask the question: is there such a thing as too much freedom?

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Bored, broke, and struggling to survive in one of the most expensive cities on earth, Paul Carr comes to the surprising realization that it would actually be cheaper to live in a luxury hotel in Manhattan than in his tiny one-bedroom London apartment. Inspired by that possibility, he sells his possessions, abandons his old life, and starts living entirely without commitments as a modern-day nomad.

Thanks to Paul's ability to talk his way into increasingly ridiculous situations, what begins as a one-year experiment soon becomes a permanent lifestylea life lived in luxury hotels and mountain-top villas. A life of fast cars, Hollywood actresses, and Icelandic rock stars. Of 6,000-mile booty calls, of partying with eight hundred female hairdressers dressed only in bedsheets, and of nearly dying at the hands of Spanish drug dealers. And, most bizarrely of all, a life that still costs less than his surviving on cold pizza in his old apartment.

Yet, as word of Paul's exploits starts to spreadfirst online, then through a national newspaper column and eventually a book dealhe finds himself forced constantly to up the stakes in order to keep things interesting. With his behavior spiraling to dangerousand sometimes criminallevels, he is forced to ask the question: is there such a thing as too much freedom?

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