Franz Wisner

Guy gets dumped a couple days before his wedding. With friends and family already on the way, they transform the wedding into just a big party. Stuck with unrefundable honeymoon reservations, Franz invites his brother on the trip as long as no one gets carried over the threshold.

It became a lot more of a book about brotherhood ... about family from there. It's also about getting over a love.

Kinda longish book. It's more difficult to think of Franz as an everyman if he is receiving $77,000 annual bonuses (and that was ten years ago). Still I enjoyed the read and inspired to travel again.… (mehr)

Am I getting soft? A bride jilts the groom at the altar. He goes on a quest around the world to ask the world on questions of love. To Brazil, Egypt, the Czech Republic, Nicaragua, New Zealand, and Botswana he travels asking the locals on the secrets to love.

So, this is a memoir of one man's travels. But it's more than that. It's one man's quest to understand this thing called love. It's about a guy trying to heal from a being jilted at the altar. It's rather a heart warming piece. That or I'm getting soft.
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