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  <title><![CDATA[Burma Chronicles]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Guy Delisle]]></name>
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    <name><![CDATA[Dan]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Nov 15 16:26:55 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Surprisingly beautiful.  Despite himself, Guy Delisle is growing up, and his wry, self-centered complaints about Burma are tempered with more genuine reflections on freedom and life itself.  <br/><br/>Of course, no one reads Delisle for incisive political commentary.  You read him for his rewardin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37653553">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="35689511">
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    <name><![CDATA[Paul]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Portland, OR]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Oct 19 10:23:23 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Oct 19 10:32:31 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[What I most love about this book is how political it WASN'T. DeLisle, considering the area he was living in, could have spent this entire book rightfully decrying a horrible and violent government, but instead choose to focus on daily life, the heat, the locals love for his cute baby, the rains, and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35689511">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43345877">
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    <name><![CDATA[Anina]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jan 17 08:31:04 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 17 08:31:04 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty good.  Not as fascinating as &quot;Pyongyang&quot; primarily because the author did not see as many wierd ass dictatorship scenes in Burma as in North Korea.<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="41296197">
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    <name><![CDATA[Patricia]]></name>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Dec 30 10:30:12 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 30 10:39:25 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Delisle's wife works for Doctors Without Borders (MSF), effectively uprooting their family for large chunks of time to foreign countries.  As an artist and writer, he allows us to join in the family relocation through brief glimpses of life in Myanmar, or Burma depending on who you ask.  His brevity...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41296197">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50396670">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jrobertus]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Austin, TX]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Wed Mar 25 07:37:48 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Mar 26 09:43:21 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read Delisle's two other graphic travel books, Shenzhen and Pyongyang, and enjoyed this unusual narrative style.  The artwork really does add to the description, although I wonder if that information sticks with the reader as well as a verbal one does.  In any case, I got the new Burma book from m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50396670">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37404520">
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    <name><![CDATA[Giacomo]]></name>
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[people whio liked Persepolis, graphic-novel readers, or pretty much everyone else]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Amazon's &quot;other people who bought this also bought...&quot;]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Fri Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Nov 11 03:47:54 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Dec 03 03:52:01 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well-written, DeLisle maintains a light tone through the entire book despite the astonishing conditions of the country he's in. Everything feels very real, but the author is very good at finding the funny side in all the absurdities around him. Definitely better than Joe Sacco, it never reaches &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37404520">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66107412">
    <user id="86362">
    <name><![CDATA[Amar]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Francisco, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <date_added>Mon Aug 03 23:38:57 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 13 21:16:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Readable, unremarkable account of Delisle's year in Burma (his wife works for Médecins Sans Frontières).  Since he isn't an NGO worker himself, he spends a lot of time taking care of his young baby while drawing cartoons.<br/><br/>The matter of fact approach does yield some interesting details a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66107412">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58895985">
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    <location><![CDATA[Tacoma, WA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jun 08 13:51:27 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 08 14:06:20 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book's portrait of Burma was interesting, showing a much more modern society than one would expect, as the country is in the grip of a vicious junta.  although any problem the people might face pales in comparison the the indignities suffered by the author: lack of air conditioning, inability t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58895985">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62486714">
    <user id="1385803">
    <name><![CDATA[Sean]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Saint Louis, MO]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jul 07 10:39:52 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 07 10:47:15 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Told as a series of animated vignettes, Delisle recounts a year or so of living in Burma (Myanmar) with his wife, a worker for Medicine Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders), and his newborn baby son, Luis.  <br/><br/>Between stories telling about his new fatherhood, Delisle wanders Rangoon and o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62486714">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44425068">
    <user id="195737">
    <name><![CDATA[Kate]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Kansas City, MO]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jan 26 13:03:09 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jan 26 13:03:09 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lacked the intrigue of the previous two travelogues, but I'm not sure why. This one was a lot more personal, as Delisle is not on his own job but is tagging along with his wife, who works for the Quebec branch of MSF (Doctors Without Borders). He babysits his son a lot and dwells on the Burmese heat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44425068">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41808749">
    <user id="16958">
    <name><![CDATA[Dan]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Seattle, WA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Graphic Novel Fans, People Interested in Asia / Burma]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jan 04 00:10:10 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jan 04 00:25:00 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is the autobiographical story of a French Canadian cartoonist <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Guy Delisle" title="Guy Delisle">Guy Delisle</a>, who went with his wife and young child to Burma (or more official recognized as Myanmar.)  His wife works for Doctors Without Borders.  This book is interesting because it not only details the day to day life of the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41808749">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63302788">
    <user id="130229">
    <name><![CDATA[Aneesa]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Francisco, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Alison K.]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sat Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jul 13 11:46:47 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 13 12:27:42 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am now more accustomed to the fact that Delisle's books are travelogues, not novels. They have a quiet sensibility and consistent pace, but after reading reviews of his other books, I couldn't help but be more aware of cultural insensitivity. The back cover copy refers to the author's &quot;cultur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63302788">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42779333">
    <user id="682722">
    <name><![CDATA[Richard]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jan 12 07:50:53 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jan 25 11:12:30 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Guy Delisle's comics.  Burma Chronicles is not quite as good as Pyongyang, but still great.  Rather than working abroad as an animator as in his previous travelogues, this time Desisle is accompanying his wife who works for Doctors without Borders.  He watches their kid, works on his comics, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42779333">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61604104">
    <user id="711451">
    <name><![CDATA[Fabien]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[New Caledonia]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Jul 13 00:02:22 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sur le fond, cette &quot;BD reportages&quot; est un excellent témoignage sur la dictature en Birmanie. Au fil des pages, le lecteur apprend beaucoup.<br/>Sur la forme, la narration un peu &quot;blog&quot; donne une impression de déjà-lu. Toutefois, elle a pour avantage de conférer à l'ensemble...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61604104">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41352214">
    <user id="142816">
    <name><![CDATA[Chantel]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[people with wanderlust]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Dec 30 18:49:36 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 30 18:54:55 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I so enjoy Guy Delisle's travel chronicles. He uses comic book form, writing the stories of the things he does, as well as drawing pictures to go with the events. <br/><br/>In this book he has a lady love and they have a baby! She works for Doctor's Without Borders, and the whole family goes to Bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41352214">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73771270">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jennifer]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Twin Falls, ID]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Oct 07 13:37:50 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Oct 07 13:41:55 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I probably placed this on display several times without realizing that it was a graphic novel. It was recommended during a conference as a GN for adults; I like nonfiction GN, having enjoyed the <em>Persepolis</em>  books by Marjane Satrapi and the <em>Maus</em> books by Art Speigelman. This one focuses on Burma/Myan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73771270">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[tara]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Francisco, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[much like in <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80834.Pyongyang_A_Journey_in_North_Korea" title="Pyongyang  A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle">pyongyang</a>, i found comics to be the perfect form here for observations about living in a really strange place.  although, again, the disjointedness of it bothered me a little bit--i think it would have felt less disjointed if he had taken out the little &quot;chapter headings&quot; that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63734082">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like it. I'm not familar with Guy Delisle's other works, but reading this one makes me feel as if I'm following a friend's life abroad. If you want more, you could also have a look at some extra pages:<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.guydelisle.com/c_birmanes/pages_supp.html">&quot;deleted pages&quot;</a> from the author's website.<br/>In fact, after a bit more browsing, I w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48829828">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Occasionally self-indulgent and superficial, but ultimately a self-deprecating and honest depiction of expat life in Burma. The stories get more interesting and the narration tighter and more focused as the book proceeds. The author's interactions with Burmese cartoonists, or the conversation he has...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64805687">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you haven't been an expat in Southeast Asia, you should read this. If you have been and expat in Southeast Asia, you should read this. Guy Delisle is funny in a wry Canadian way, and so spot on on the details he chooses to elaborate on, that bring you into life in Southeast Asia immediately. Mind...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73071546">more...</a>]]></body>
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