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Japan Took The J.A.P. Out Of Me (2009)

by Lisa Fineberg Cook(Favorite Author)

3.17 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1439110034 (ISBN13: 9781439110034)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Gallery Books

review 1: A memoir of a jewish/los angeles woman and how she manuevers her way through Nagoya/Japan as a newlywed. Cook is very honest with her observations about Japanese culture through an american eye. (Especially the parts about not really wanting to learn japanese language or customs and that all asian people look the same.) There were some amusing parts to this memoir, but some parts were a bit redundent, and after a while you don't feel sympathetic towards Cook who only superficially connects with the people of japan.
review 2: Don't waste your time reading this book. Cook starts out as a selfish, spoiled princess and ends up after her experience in Japan as a selfish spoiled princess. She whines and complains and I could never figure out what her sweet husband sa... morew in her other than that she was pretty. I kept waiting for her to have some great "ah ha" moment but it never happened. I was surprised that she did have a clue about poetry because she comes across as a shallow nit wit. This book was like a very long boring magazine article......dont bother! less

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