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Abroad in Japan

Chris Broad

4.1 AVERAGE

jennyer91's review

5.0

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hanna79993's review against another edition

5.0

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Hilarious, inspiring, educational. I loved this book! I'd recommend it to anyone interested in Japan or planning a trip there.

tsundoku_reader's review

4.0

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kijoweaver's review

4.0

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I bought this book in October with the intention of listening to it before our second trip to Japan, over the holidays in December/January. So, of course, we listened to it after we returned. We spent most of our time in Tokyo both trips so we didn’t miss much from events in the book. It was probably better this way because we could laugh about the ubiquitous love of “fami chicki”, eating KFC for Christmas Day, and the red light of Kabukicho— where we actually stayed for two weeks and had no idea was the most dangerous part of Tokyo. You’d never know that during the day!
The book was a bit imbalanced- lots of details about the first couple of years and glossing over many of the years in the middle. We’ve never watched the YouTube channel episodes so maybe we should check it out!

aniventure's review against another edition

4.5

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rivacharles's review against another edition

4.0

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I loved listening to this on audio. I had never heard of Chris before listening and wasn’t aware of his YouTube channel so I am glad I stumbled across this book. I will say that I did significantly prefer the first half to two thirds of the book in which he described his experience in the JET program.

Once he left to pursue his YouTube career I just didn’t find it as interesting. I also felt like the writing because less personal, and more about Japan itself rather than him.

Still, a great book with a fun narration!

ginqueen's review

4.75

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amygraham's review

4.5

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cosmicgirl's review

4.75

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danjacobs's review

5.0

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