Title: poorly written, a disgrace to Graham Greene, boring..
Product review: i just bought this in Vientiane. i got to page 11 and put it away. flipped through and read some other chapters.....very poor prose.the chapter where he compares Joe to Pyle simply doesn't make sense.a lot of filler. just plain dull at times. i want my 60,000 kip back.i like the blurb on the back cover: "no other personal acount of contemporary Laos is as informative, under-the-surface, and well written....."how many books are in that category, exactly? i figure maybe four?and this is the best one? stunning. it's time to fill this huge gap in the "personal account of contemporary Laos" genre. with the amount of foreigners here right now, odds are some of them are working on it.maybe they can steal their titles too! that's all. bye.
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