Cultured Travel Guide Books - Single in Saudi |
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 609
EAN: 9781403368362
ISBN: 1403368368
Label: 1st Books Library
Manufacturer: 1st Books Library
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 167
Publication Date: 2002-11-29
Publisher: 1st Books Library
Studio: 1st Books Library |
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Summary: Don't buy this book
Comment: I was VERY disapointed with this book.
I expected interesting facts about Saudi Arabia and life there, and all I got was what and when the author smoked and drank, and who she slept with. Even these facts aren't written in an interesting or funny style, more like a list of men and places she went to.
I'm very sorry that Amazon sells (and even can recommend) such a book.
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Summary: Single in Saudi
Comment: Really great. Took me back to the Kingdom of the 1970s and 1980s before the money got tight and before the Gulf War. It's a different place today, but those of you who were there in those days will enjoy it. When the Kingdom was a place of parties and bed-hopping for any ex-pat who was willing.
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Summary: Review of "Single in Saudi"
Comment: This book was a self-serving account of one woman's journey to The Kingdom. I was hoping to get more of an account of healthcare and cultural aspects of Saudi. Instead the author (who obviously thinks very highly of herself) goes on and on about how every guy she meets falls in love with her and how she can't resist the temptation to sleep with them. All the men are handsome to her and all of them are "passionate" lovers. By 2/3 of the way into the book, I found it difficult to keep track of who she was sleeping with in whatever chapter I was reading. I found it hilarious how she judged the character Johnnie for her lifestyle when the author had revealed she has little moral fiber of her own.
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Summary: Two-faced narrator to be taken with a grain (or shaker) of salt
Comment: It's a self-published book, first of all. So don't expect ANY copy-editing at all. The prose is poor, the spelling just awful, but the story is kind of entertaining on a superficial level, though I do have to say I find the constant undercurrent of bigotry hard to take. She has no problem going from bed to bed with all these men, using them as much as they're using her, all the while saying bad things about them and their culture. She puts on airs as though she's such a sophisticated jet-setter and it comes off as phony. It's too bad, because somewhere in this mess of a narrative is a good story.
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Summary: We can learn much from "Single in Saudi"
Comment: I loved "Single in Saudi" in its many perspectives.
At one level it's a sexy romp through high-walled compounds inhabited by some of the world's richest men. At another it's full of sad insights into the degradation thrust on Saudi women by their countrymen.
Genia writes a unique and illuminating book about herself as a blonde, blue-eyed American woman living in Saudi under a veil and obaya, the long, hooded, black robes that Saudi women are required to wear in public.
As Americans we can learn much from "Single," because at some point the American-led coalition will have to decide whether fighting the war, or insurgency, or keeping the peace, or whatever we may be doing in Iraq, is worth expending our blood and treasure for a nation of ingrates and incompetents and worse.
And that decision will in part be based on our view of those who people the nations of the Middle East, including the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a regime of hypocrites that Genia indulged without apology.
I commend the book to you.
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I had a wonderful, albeit long review written by Liam Wilson of Oslo, Norway on my book "Single in Saidi" It has been deleted and I would really like it to be reinstated as it was very favorable. Can this be done? Thank you, Jan Stowe
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