A review by saramdeuri
Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan by Michael Booth

Did not finish book. Stopped at 30%.

I get this feeling from the writing that the author is... perhaps looking down on the populations he's talking about? I understand that he's likely not right wing, but there was something especially uncomfortable with how he described korean people - how a restaurant worker was supposedly rude to him (I've a feeling he misinterpreted or just missed out what she said in korean, since he doesn't speak the language) or how he describes the country itself... I can't place a finger on it but the further I read on the more uncomfortable I got with how he wrote. I am not East Asian myself so i can't speak certainly but there was something that put me off. I have lived in Korea for an extended period of time so perhaps that's why I was a little sensitive to the korean part in particular - but the part on Japan just before it wasn't so comfortable either.