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.Ride In The Neon Sun
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by: Josie Dew

November 08, 2004
Looking forward to a nice fat read, I found myself losing interest after the first 100 pages or so as Ms Dew served up cliche after cliche about Japan and the Japanese (Isn't Tokyo really big and aren't Japanese people really small?). One of the weaknesses of this book is the fact that Ms Dew has read several generic texts on Japan and now seems determined to regurgitate every last fact for our benefit. Another is Ms Dew's "auto-exotica"; her constant description of herself as a "mad gaijin" or "wild-eyed barbarian" is irritating in it's repetition, like a joke you have heard a hundred times. Similarly, she slips into the old, annoying foreigner-in-Japan habit of employing Japanese vocabulary for everyday English ... Read More:
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.Jerusalem Moonlight: An American Zen Teacher Walks The Path Of His Ancestors
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by: Norman Fischer

1995-02
Looking forward to a nice fat read, I found myself losing interest after the first 100 pages or so as Ms Dew served up cliche after cliche about Japan and the Japanese (Isn't Tokyo really big and aren't Japanese people really small?). One of the weaknesses of this book is the fact that Ms Dew has read several generic texts on Japan and now seems determined to regurgitate every last fact for our benefit. Another is Ms Dew's "auto-exotica"; her constant description of herself as a "mad gaijin" or "wild-eyed barbarian" is irritating in it's repetition, like a joke you have heard a hundred times. Similarly, she slips into the old, annoying foreigner-in-Japan habit of employing Japanese vocabulary for everyday English ... Read More:
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.Comrades and Strangers: Behind the Closed Doors of North Korea
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by: Michael Harrold

July 21, 2004
Looking forward to a nice fat read, I found myself losing interest after the first 100 pages or so as Ms Dew served up cliche after cliche about Japan and the Japanese (Isn't Tokyo really big and aren't Japanese people really small?). One of the weaknesses of this book is the fact that Ms Dew has read several generic texts on Japan and now seems determined to regurgitate every last fact for our benefit. Another is Ms Dew's "auto-exotica"; her constant description of herself as a "mad gaijin" or "wild-eyed barbarian" is irritating in it's repetition, like a joke you have heard a hundred times. Similarly, she slips into the old, annoying foreigner-in-Japan habit of employing Japanese vocabulary for everyday English ... Read More:
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.Bahasa Indonesia Book 2
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by: Yohanni Johns

December 15, 1996
This is a great, inexpensive book for Indonesian. I was hoping for a it more about Indonesian because of the title, but it is still very good. I DO miss any audio supplements for the text.

The text is easy to read, I do find my self flipping through the text to earlier parts because sometimes the words you learn are not carried through all the lessons. Maybe my problem, not the books.

The text seems to be natural. There are not a lot of "stutter sentences" I have seen in many language books.

I like it alot.
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.To the Frontier
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by: Geoffrey Moorhouse

September 03, 1998
This is a great, inexpensive book for Indonesian. I was hoping for a it more about Indonesian because of the title, but it is still very good. I DO miss any audio supplements for the text.

The text is easy to read, I do find my self flipping through the text to earlier parts because sometimes the words you learn are not carried through all the lessons. Maybe my problem, not the books.

The text seems to be natural. There are not a lot of "stutter sentences" I have seen in many language books.

I like it alot.
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.Healthy Travel: Central & South America
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by: Isabelle Young

July 15, 2008
...where to go in central and south america, then read this through. As with all Lonely Planets book, it got lots of information! I want to go to Guatemala or Ecuador, but I didn't really know too much about any of these countries. Reading this through helped me. I'm going to BOTH!
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.Rough Guide South India 5e
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by: Rough Guide

October 30, 2007
...where to go in central and south america, then read this through. As with all Lonely Planets book, it got lots of information! I want to go to Guatemala or Ecuador, but I didn't really know too much about any of these countries. Reading this through helped me. I'm going to BOTH!
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.Bikes of Burden
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by: Hans Kemp

January 15, 2005
I just returned from Saigon, and can confirm that daily traffic in Viet Nam is just as Hans Kemp's amazing pictures depict it. I bought a half dozen of this book from a shop near the Rex Hotel, and lugged them home, only to now see I could have much more easily, and at a better price, acquired them via Amazon. They make a great gift book, because every reader without fail will boggle at the shots he took, of what the Vietnamese somehow manage to juggle on their motor bikes. I like the size and the format of the book as well.
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.Collins Russian Phrasebook: The Right Word in Your Pocket with CD (Audio)
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from: HarperCollins Canada / Collins Refere

June 14, 2007
I just returned from Saigon, and can confirm that daily traffic in Viet Nam is just as Hans Kemp's amazing pictures depict it. I bought a half dozen of this book from a shop near the Rex Hotel, and lugged them home, only to now see I could have much more easily, and at a better price, acquired them via Amazon. They make a great gift book, because every reader without fail will boggle at the shots he took, of what the Vietnamese somehow manage to juggle on their motor bikes. I like the size and the format of the book as well.
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.Once in Kazakhstan: The Snow Leopard Emerges
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by: Keith Rosten

2005-01
Keith Rosten has given us a fascinating look at a country I for one knew very little about. It seems to me that we cared much more about the former Soviet satellite nations while they lay subject to Soviet domination and have generally ignored them after the Soviet Union burst apart at the seams. That is unfortunate because former Soviet bloc nations such as Kazakhstan have been, for well over a decade now, embarking on the road to democracy - a journey which has oftentimes involved two steps back for each step forward. Rosten gives us a personal view of the early struggle for progress and democratic reform in this geographically isolated, complicated nation, for he was there in the fall through spring months of 1993/94 as Kazakhstan took some of ... Read More:
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