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    <body><![CDATA[This book created a clear image of post-war Vietnam, but while I enjoyed following Pham's travels, I never became truly engaged with the book.  Although the author constantly reiterated his deep and troubling ambivalence about his native land, his struggle failed to grab my heart.  The book containe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39879023">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was left to me by a friend who was passing through Singapore in early 2008. I started the book about that time but only just completed it.<br/><br/>Not that it was unreadable or anything like that. In fact, I enjoyed it. (Another friend who visited me finished the book in a day.) It's ju...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50889301">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What's fascinating about this book is that it illustrates one of the world's most prevalent fallacies: that if we can just get away from where we are and go someplace exotic, we will find ourselves and our lives will begin to make sense to us.  Andrew Pham travels to Vietnam (which he and his family...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52493031">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Definitely enjoyed this book as a great peak into the many challenges faced by Vietnamese-Americans, not only at home, but abroad as well.  Pham does a great job of relaying the inner-turmoil that arises, not so much from his own identity issues but those that others try to pin on him.  While he cle...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80743537">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41276374">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was a little odd reading Pham's books in reverse chronological order, not because of the story lines but because of the writing style.  Eaves of Heaven shows signs of maturity that aren't as apparent in Catfish and Mandala. This slight difference caused me to waver between four and five stars.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41276374">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="79336097">
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Nov 29 16:56:21 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Got this from a used book sale.  The author apparently lives in Portland!  He didn't seem to do much preparation for his bike trip (some of the scrapes he gets into seem like they could have been avoided with a bit of advance planning and maybe a map or two), and wasn't necessarily even on his bike ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79336097">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 30 22:53:30 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was slow to grow on me; Pham's style of writing seemed choppy at first - it jumped points in time quickly, without much in the way of description.  But, as you get into the book, and, of course, when he gets to Vietnam, the story really comes to life.  This may simply be because of my own ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49046802">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is definitely NOT about the bike, it plays only an incidental role. Being a bike tourist, I was really looking forward to a good story about a bike tour in an exotic, faraway place, instead found myself reading about eating disgusting foods and bloody diarrhea. Several stories are interwov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40499144">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I admit it took me probably 100 pages to become truly engaged, but I believe that was because there were so many characters at different times - I had a hard time figuring out who he was talking about and to which time period he was referring. However once I got past that I found it to be a very com...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59185959">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is easily the most impressive book I have read this year.  The author is an amazing person living in difficult and complex world.  In Vietnam he exists as both a tourist and a native.  In the states his family is clearly 1st generation, but with typically American qualities.  <br/><br/>Person...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55614793">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[3.5+ review.  Reading some Vietnam-lite literature to prepare for a trip in November.  While the book was written 10 years ago - it's precisely why I'm interested...and hesitant about visiting this fascinating country.  Wonderful &amp; disturbing insights from a Vietnamese-American and the new life his ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69022400">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book over the summer and it was really boring. It was about this asian dude who rides his bike throughout vietnam to find himself. The writing was okay but it kept flip flopping the point of view which made it hard for me to understand. If the author would have focused on him riding the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77130698">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[And Goodreads eats another review ... sigh. <br/><br/>Short version: an excellent account of the author's exploration of what it means to be both Vietnamese and American. Pham's quest to find himself reveals enormous insight into both Vietnamese and American culture; it helps that he is an excelle...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72173205">more...</a>]]></body>
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