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Title: which swing of culture shock?
Review: a lot of others have commented that Bangkok 8 was a superior book. they're right.this book suffers badly from the author's imposition of his own voice over his character's. i find it hard to credit that a buddhist would take up such a vituperative stance toward westerners. lord knows western culture needs a good, solid critique right now, but somehow i don't believe it would come tripping out of a buddhist's mouth. buddhists after all are known for their tolerance of human--including western--foibles.so all i can assume is that the author is having one of those horrible culture shock swings, wherein his own culture looks really, really bad to him. maybe a vacation would help.
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