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    <body><![CDATA[I struggled a bit with forming my opinion of this book, because while I was interested in the perspective of NZ from the hitchhiker's eyes, he had a tendency to write heavily about the negative, as if he thought that was the way to differentiate himself from a guidebook. (At the same time, he's got ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38678376">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I started out not really liking this one, but ended up with a weird admiration for the author's viewpoint by the end of it. First off, the title is &quot;A Land of Two Halves: An Accidental Tour of New Zealand.&quot; Subtitle is a misnomer; Bennett specifically heads out to hitchhike around the two ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21095373">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, this was absolutely fabulous! Written with so much more wit and humour than anything Bill Bryson has done - sorry Bill, but true.<br/>It begins with a synopsis of Bennett's life up to the point of writing this book and he goes on to very humorously document his travels - firstly around the Sout...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74383030">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think it's funny that most of the other reviewers criticize Bennett as being too negative.  (They'd better avoid Paul Theroux and most of Bill Bryson or they'll be writing furious letters to Amazon trying to get their money back.)  I thought it was quite well-balanced:  sure, he's not a fan of fak...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79242176">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is depressing me. Not in the way I thought it would (the 'DAMN I really miss New Zealand' way), but in the way that it's boring and the author complains about everything and I almost don't even want to keep reading it. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;After 10 years in New Zealand, Joe Bennett asked himself what on earth he was doing there. Other than his dogs, what was it about these two small islands on the edge of the world that had kept him&#8212;an otherwise restless traveller&#8212;for really much longer than they seemed to deserve? Bennett thought he'd better pack his bag and find out. Hitching around both the intriguingly named North and South Islands, with an eye for oddity and a taste for conversation, Bennett began to remind himself of the reasons New Zealand is quietly seducing the rest of the world.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This evoked so many memories of my Gap Year in the country, which had almost become a distant dream. A special place.<br/><br/>I'll go for the steak -- well done -- and the wife'll have cod.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This tale of hitchhiking around New Zealand is very enjoyable because you develop quite a liking for the author. Sort of a mini Bill Bryson in the way he writes.  A book you do not want to end.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Author is a bit of a miserable sod who has clearly forgotten why he lives in, and loves, New Zealand.  ]]></body>
    
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