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Abroad in Japan

Chris Broad

4.09 AVERAGE

amyg03's review

4.5

informative relaxing fast-paced

na8na's review against another edition

4.0

funny hopeful informative inspiring relaxing fast-paced

pageswithpenny's review against another edition

3.0

funny hopeful informative lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

cheesekie's review

3.75

adventurous funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

teabookshappy's review

5.0

adventurous funny hopeful informative medium-paced

joeba_fett's review

3.75

funny informative lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

odryla's review

5.0

adventurous funny informative inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

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Chris chronicles his decade in Japan brilliantly, and brings to life his experiences through witty writing. No part of this read was difficult and I was captivated from start to finish.  

scissorpunch's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

yet2bedefined's review

4.0

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Closer to a 3.5. A Japan travelog 3rd, a behind the scenes of his YT channel 2nd, and ultimately a memoir 1st. There’s interesting things to learn about the region of Japan Chris resides in within this novel, but ultimately most of the book is about his personal feelings throughout his decade in Japan, so your enjoyment of the book heavily depends on how much you enjoy him, whether or not you’re already familiar with the book. As he writes in the epilogue, the moments he enjoys returning to the most are the mundane ones.

There are a couple of weird sequencing choices (he fully introduces Ken Watanabe twice?). The level of detail in the first half is also massively higher in the first half compared to the second, which feels like we’re flying to a new era every chapter by comparison. I like the guy though, and I’m not terribly familiar with his earliest work, so the content that was focused on was the stuff I was looking for.

Note: I listened to the audiobook narrated by the author himself for the entire duration,

leniii's review against another edition

4.0

funny informative medium-paced