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A review by lisagray68
Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski
3.0
The idea of this book fascinated me, but it fell a bit short of it's reputation. First, let me say that I hate the literary ploy in which a real-life author is the narrator of a supposedly true story -- but, psyche, it's actually fiction. Why not just pick a narrator?? He could have told the same story, but just not named the narrator after himself! I don't get this. It doesn't work for me - I spend the whole book wondering if the story actually happened, but they just minorly fictionalized it, or if it's all made up. It was an annoying distraction to an otherwise ok book.
I loved all I learned about the Thai people, and what I learned about anthropologists and what it is like to live in the field and conduct real-life research into indigenous peoples. But the book is supposed to be a mystery, and it took so long to get to the meat of the matter.
One reviewer from Amazon said "Just read the first two chapters and the last two chapters, and that's all you need". Couldn't-a said it better myself.
I loved all I learned about the Thai people, and what I learned about anthropologists and what it is like to live in the field and conduct real-life research into indigenous peoples. But the book is supposed to be a mystery, and it took so long to get to the meat of the matter.
One reviewer from Amazon said "Just read the first two chapters and the last two chapters, and that's all you need". Couldn't-a said it better myself.