Review: Fascinating Read On A World So Much Like My Own
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 16, 2012
This was a fascinating read. This is an auto-biography (with a fantastical and hyperbolic twist or two) of a Malaysian writer is known for his money-matters non-fiction.  Turns out we are about the same age.  So while his village had just gotten television and he is watching Americans and how we live in big houses, big cars, shoot everything in site, I'm watching portrayals of his part of the world as a bunch of starving half dressed children.  Truth is our worlds weren't much different.  His escape into comics and super-heroes.  Mine.  His discomfort around one side of the family versus the other.  Mine.  His small town.  Mine.  While he was getting electric and television in his home, we were getting color TV and the mail directly delivered to our door for the first time, but really it was the same small town.  A wonderful look at something surprisingly similar.