Title: Insensitive to Buddhists
Product review: While Shopping for Buddhas is mildly entertaining as a travelogue, I found myself increasingly offended by Greenwald's commercial exploitation of the West's recycled interest in Eastern thought. Greenwald makes his own religious ambivalence abundantly clear, even as he opens each chapter with a buddhist lesson which, one presumes, has somehow affected him. Careful to always capitalize God to the point of sanctimony, I was distracted by his ego-centric sidebar willingness to poke fun at all the other gods he encountered on his travels. Finally, in the end, I concluded Mr. Greenwald, apparently an anxious, scorekeeping traveler, elected to commercially trade on his knowledge of this part of the world in a way which left this reader feeling trespassed.
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