Excellent read.I reread half of this book in Dec. 97 and This book recounts Pico's Asian travels in the late 1980s. In may cases, it was almost as if Iyer saw what he wanted to see - a single-minded Chinese populace, an introspective and peaceful Burma, an efficiency-oriented Japan etc. The author's time in Asia happened in the mid 80s, with the latest visit being 1987.
I don't think Asia's changed much, but our perception of it has come to match what Iyer observed so much that his descriptions seem heavy-handed and selfInsightful but interminable. Sure, he is a little bit too awed by the (putative) mysteriousness and perfectionism of Japan, so probably his highly poetic descriptions of other places - like Burma or Tibet This was a fun book, very fast reading, even though quite dated (the 80s), about how East meets West through popculture. Or is it because the personality of the author barges in way too much at times?This book was patronizing bordering on the repulsive.
Is it really the West influencing the East or vice versa? I first heard of Pico Iyer by reading his liner notes in THE ESSENTIAL LEONARD COHEN compilation. That said, much of Iyer's observations about some of the deeper cultural phenomena still ring true. In her first post she writes about her favorite travel read – Video Night In Kathmandu by Pico Iyer, on HappyReading Blog:Noopur Raval is a student of Masters in Arts & Aesthetics, JNU, a photographer, blogger and interesting character! I was also one of those who watched Isla (starring Maria Isabel Lopez) in Mrs. Marcos' Film Center. Video Night In Kathmandu summary: Video Night In Kathmandu summary is updating. Published
I'm obsessed with it.)
Video Night in Kathmandu is an Hieronymus Bosch iconostasis of Bali, Tibet, Nepal, China, the Philippines, Myanmar (described as “a malfunctioning guinea pig of fundamentalist socialism”), Hong Kong, India, Thailand, and Japan.
Suggests reading modern Asia writers Leithauser and Morley. Pre-publication book reviews and features keeping readers and industry However, I have yet to visit Asia (September! Of the dozen or so pieces, the one on Japan was superb, so were the introduction and conclusion. Sure, he is a little bit too awed by the (putative) mysteriousness and perfectionism of Japan, so probably his highly poetic descriptions of other places - like Burma or Tibet - should be taken with a pinch of salt, but these are his stories, and they are well-written and emotionally engaging too.I'm not typically a fan of travel books, but I found this one really enjoyable. The book is comparable to the video houses in Kathmandu showing different movies or programs that are mainly about US stuff - Rambo, American football, etc.
Surely, I thought, when I realised, Asia would have changed so much in 30 years that this book would perhaps seem a little out of date? Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East Well written, witty and fascinating account of travelling in Asia in the 80s. I read this book while I was travelling in northern India, and while it is a little out of date now (published in 1989), it captures so many of the weird and wonderful things about Asia. By . He is quite different in the final chapter of the book, stating that he had experienced so much beauty in hiThe book is gives readers an intriguing look at the Western world’s impact on Eastern culture, and how the tourism industry has affected the lives Asian citizens so heavily bombarded by propaganda, politics, and US standards. I found the glimpses of things that have definitively changed to be interesting, and often they made me wish I had some sort of comparative current nonfiction text about the region, to compare, but this is really a problem of my lack of comprehensive reading, not the book's.Were the 1980s another world? The character of Wayan, the child-fatherThe book is about his 6-month visit to the different countries in the Far East in 1985.
), so he may have been speaking the truth.
Iyer mentioned that the government showed porn in a film center with the screening price 5 times higher than the regular movie. Take, for example, the octogenarian American Marxist he encounters as she careens about the world in search of socialist answers, or the night spent in an airport hotel in Lhasa, where everything that could go awry--did. Rambo, Madonna and Bruce Springsteen are mentioned throughout the book.I first heard of Pico Iyer by reading his liner notes in THE ESSENTIAL LEONARD COHEN compilation.
I want, for all the merging and destruction and going on in the outside world, to have a narrator that I can depend on and turn to in times of confusion. About those countries which I was not able to visit like Tibet, Nepal and Burma, I learned a lot from reading those chapters. This time I liked his China narrative more. The exception was his description of India, where I found him to be off mark. Not really. This was deadening when it should have been inspiring or at least enlightening.
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