Disorientation: When Fact is Stranger Than Fiction 

This just shows how background knowledge and reference points can add to a book. Great video and I think I need to learn more about Satire (not something I'm confidentin recognizing).

It's always so nice to listen to someone who is intelligent and eloquent :D I find it so relaxing watching your videos and have gotten a ton of books on the TBR too lol

If this book is half as interesting and thought provoking as all the fascinating rabbit holes your discussion of it has taken me down, I can't wait to get my hands on it

Disorientation is a total banger! Some of the best character development I've read in a long time.

Will check it out. Sounds interesting.

Just stumbled across your channel, and I really enjoyed your review here!

Subscribed. :)

Gteat review im reading this now and im loving it!

Fantastic review as always. My daughter is also headed to Europe next week for the first time. Hers is a two week vacation with girlfriends but they will be hitting Amsterdam and Germany as well.

what a gorgeous cover, omg! will check it out. no recommendations, but enjoy!

this sounds amazing! adding to my tbr asap

I envy your Netherlands stay. I almost didn't come home from my trip to Amsterdam. If classical music is at all a draw, The Concertgebouw is a gorgeous hall and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is one of the best in the world. Also had a wonderful visit to the Amsterdam ArenA to watch Ajax FC. The museums and galleries sell themselves. 😂

have a wonderful trip..

Great video! I couldn't get into The Sellout... i don't think satire is for me :/ Anyways, safe travels!

(1) The guy pretty much revealed his own background when he talked about his daughter's going to South Korea and to Germany/Netherlands to explore the German/Dutch side of the family, implying that the daughter was a mix of a European-descendant mother and an East Asian-descendant father. (2) I finished the whole novel in a week, more or less, with highlights and annotations; and I am not impressed at all with the work. In short, Ingrid Yang has been transformed from a cardboard cut-out of a white-worshipping self-hating Asian woman to a cardboard cut-out of an American liberal ideologue. Plus, the other characters were so shallow and poorly developed with badly written dialogue that the whole novel became a real-life example of John Smith's play in the book, and that Elaine Hsieh Chou became the real-life version of John Smith in the novel, catering to the American people's expectations of China and of East Asia.