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nogglization's review
4.0
Today I found this book residing in a box that lives in the closet. It immediately transported me back to 2008: I was a young expat living in Taiwan, earning an eastern perspective of the US (and an MA in China Studies).
I could almost smell the stinky tofu and the humidity as I flipped through the pages. It's impossible for me to think about this book without remembering the special friend who recommended it.
This book will forever serve as a snapshot of my life at the time I read it, more so than the actual content. It stands out as a marker of my transitioning political world-view, and the fact that I was somehow able to convince my lifelong Republican father to read it too.
Overall, it is an "entertaining" read and caustically funny—if you can laugh at, instead of be depressed by US politics.
I could almost smell the stinky tofu and the humidity as I flipped through the pages. It's impossible for me to think about this book without remembering the special friend who recommended it.
This book will forever serve as a snapshot of my life at the time I read it, more so than the actual content. It stands out as a marker of my transitioning political world-view, and the fact that I was somehow able to convince my lifelong Republican father to read it too.
Overall, it is an "entertaining" read and caustically funny—if you can laugh at, instead of be depressed by US politics.
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