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Title: Don't Waste your $ or your time
Review: Since 9/11 I have read everything I could read on the Middle East, and Saudi Arabia, in particular. I was thrilled when I saw this book. I was disappointed from page one.In my opinion, this writer did not spend enough time in the country to get a handle on it--a few years only--what I call parachute journalism--also, she writes that she lived closed in a Western compound. This is very limiting for a writer.The writing shows it. I felt I was reading what she had been told or had "heard." I may be wrong, and if so, apologies.There are plenty of other great books out there about Saudi Arabia. As a reader of many books about the Middle East, I must tell the painful truth. In my opinion, this is not a book to bother with.
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