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Apologies To My Censor: The High And Low Adventures Of A Foreigner In China (2013)

by Mitch Moxley(Favorite Author)

3.25 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0062124439 (ISBN13: 9780062124432)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Harper Perennial

review 1: This book is honest, funny and sad all at the same time. Mitch takes you along with him for his exploits in booming China; whacky stories of everyday life, a continuous stream of party nights and above all a continuous search to find direction. For those who aspire to be travel writers, this gives a glimpse into that life, or at lest one version of it. For those planning a wild and fun few years abroad, read this to get a sense of what it might be like.
review 2: This book is well-written, the author is a Canadian journalist and has written for a number of newspapers and well-known magazines, but I didn't much like his story. For the first hundred or so pages, all he does is complain about China and his job and gets drunk almost every night. Now, he was in his ... morelate twenties at the time and did have an incredibly boring job working for the state-run China Daily newspaper where he did almost nothing, but I have little patience for people going to foreign countries and moaning and groaning about the lack of comforts compared to their homeland or for people (young or old) who spend a lot of time getting smashed. The second half of the book is better because he does leave his job and finds more interesting freelance writing work, finally learns to speak some Chinese, travels more throughout the country, and writes some published stories about his adventures (he does have some doozies), but I still ended up thinking this isn't one of the better books about life in China. The book is really more about him than it is about China. I liked this book enough to finish it, but there are better books about life and travel in China, so read one of those books instead. Peter Hessler's books about China are great. less

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