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Title: I Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawai`i (National Geographic Directions) by Susanna Moore ISBN: 0792265289 Publisher: National Geographic Pub. Date: April, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67
Rating: 2
Summary: This would get a C-minus in 10th grade world history.
Comment: Perhaps I had the wrong expectation. The brief amount I heard on NPR made me feel I was going to learn about Hawaiian culture and maybe hear stories. This book was written in the time-honored tradition of one American explaining why other Americans should feel bad about being American. Not that she is wrong or has any of her facts misplaced. But Susanna has written a disjointed, self-serving, whining account of Hawai'i. Maybe she is lamenting the loss of a childhood that she may or may not have ever had. But each chapter is kind of summed up the same way: the noble Hawai'ian, raped literally or figuratively by the Westerner in the name of progress or profit. I am hoping that she has a chance to spend time with her therapist (since she has found reason now to live in New York).
Rating: 4
Summary: A Look Beneath the Surface
Comment: The typical one-week trip to Hawaii involves an immersion in lovely sights and scents and leads to a vague realization that this is a very different place from the rest of the United States. If one is lucky enough to spend a month or more then you begin to get an inkling that this is a very complex place indeed. For those who want to have a deeper inderstanding of that complexity this book is highly recommended.
Susanna Moore , who grew up in Hawaii, nicely blends a short history of the islands with her own experiences going to school there while slowly becoming aware of the "sociology" class going on all around her. For those who want to develop a Hawaiian sense of place this short straightforward book is a good place to begin.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Stunning Work
Comment: This is a stunning history/personal memoir by Hawaii-born Moore, author of four other books. It captures the layered and complicated history of the Hawaiian Islands and at the same time deftly blends in the author's contemporary perspective. A page-turning must-read for anyone interested in Hawaii, or not.
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Title: My Old Sweetheart by Susanna Moore ISBN: 0679776419 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 29 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Sleeping Beauties by Susanna Moore ISBN: 067975539X Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: October, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: One Last Look by Susanna Moore ISBN: 0679450416 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Whiteness of Bones by Susanna Moore ISBN: 1400075041 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Women of Hawaii by Pegge Hopper ISBN: 1580084397 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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