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Title: Not very realistic or honest
Review: I've been to phenom penh several times and saw this book for sale there. I realize that this book is listed as non-fiction but I think that it gives a very unrealistic portrayal of the city of phenom penh as viewed by a minor group of expats. I was hoping that it would describe a city that I actually love very much but I found it to be way off base. In addition, it was poorly written as though he just gathered up a bunch of scenes (and at the ends of some chapters just quotes from friends) and threw it all together. Nothing really holds it together. I just have to wonder if there's a point to all of the things that are in this book since it seems more like one "wow, dude, check out this" bit after another which gets old very quickly.
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