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Summary: A review Depth Takes a Holidy
Review: I think Depth Takes a Holiday is a very entertaining book on the lives and experiences of people in Southern California. In addition, the Author's light-hearted, relaxed, and humorous style of writing made it a very entertaining book.I strongly recommond this book the young adul who would find it to very similar to their own experience. by Long Ngo CSULA July 22, 1999
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Summary: reality of the other side of L.A.
Review: It is a wonderful book in which Sandra gives us the reality of the city of Los Angeles, and San Fernado Valley. She did a brilliant job on this book, and I give her two thumbs up. Myra Fregoso Student,Cal State LA 7-21-99
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Summary: reality of the other side of L.A.
Review: It is a wonderful book in which Sandra gives us the reality of the city of Los Angeles, and San Fernado Valley. She did a brilliant job on this book, and I give her two thumbs up. I really recommend this book to the readers. This book may be very valuable to those people who doesn't know the darkside of Los Angeles. Myra Fregoso Student,Cal State LA 7-21-99
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Summary: reality towards the city of L.A.
Review: It is wonderful book that I recommend to everyone. It gives us the reality of the ugly side of L.A. and San Fernando Valley. This book is very valuable for the reason of how Sandra relates her life with her topics. Myra Fregoso student, Cal State L.A. 7-21-99
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Summary: The consummate book on 1990s "Valley" Life...
Review: Like many people, I first discovered Ms. Loh through her essays published in the now defunct LA magazine Buzz. Her clear, heavy pop-culure laced writing style is enormously pleasable to read and usually elicits frequent, uncontrollable laughter. I have found myself reading passages from this book to friends, some of whom have never even been to the San Fernando Valley or its environs... and they still laugh! If you enjoy reading humourous stories from the twentysomething unemployment front, the neurotic dating scene, and treatises on the socioeconomic seperation between LA and the Valley, this is your book. Even if you don't, I'm sure you'll find at least a few essays to identify with if you're in your in your 20s-30s, over-educated/under-employed, slightly neurotic, or if you have ever been any of these.
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Summary: Sandra Tsing Loh's collection of essays is very insightful.
Review: Loh's collection of essays shows good observations and very insightful interpretations of the everyday life situations. Instead of taking it to the heart and obsessing about everyday life problems, she is able to find humor in every situation. Her controlling idea for the most part is life is filled with joy and exciting experiences. The purpose of this idea to the audience could be to teach them to open their eyes, open their mind, open their heart, just sit back, relax, and laugh at the little things in life once in a while :) Learn to take it easy for once in your stressful life. One of the strength of this book is Loh's ability to get her audience caught up with the amusement and laughter of her essays. While the audience is busy laughing their heads off at the situations, Loh quickly sneaks in her interpretation and she has the audience thinking about the way she sees things. She is very good with giving facts in great details that actually show us, not tell us about the situations. But sometimes her perspectives seem selfish and her on going descriptions seem like it is nothing more than complaints. Over all this book is a very good collection of light-hearted essays. I would recommend this book for one of the long plane trips, or if you have time to kill on the weekend, this book would be great in freshening you up for the up coming weeks of work. It would not only keep you busy but it would teach you to look at life in a new way.
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Summary: Ashamed to say "I don't get it."
Review: Maybe it's because I don't live in L.A. Maybe it's because I've never been to L.A. I desperately wanted to like this collection of essays. I expected to like it. I felt obliged to like it. And yet... I didn't like it. All I saw were a lot of words which really said nothing at all. There was no emotion I could grapple with, no real social comment. Just words. Maybe you shouldn't listen to me. This book has gotten many great reviews. But as a fan of David Sedaris, David Rakoff and other serious essayists, I found Susan Loh to be just another purveyor of useless words.
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Summary: Ashamed to say "I don't get it."
Review: Maybe it's because I don't live in L.A. Maybe it's because I've never been to L.A. I desperately wanted to like this collection of essays. I expected to like it. I felt obliged to like it. And yet... I didn't like it. All I saw were a lot of words which really said nothing at all. There was no emotion I could grapple with, no real social comment. Just words. Maybe you shouldn't listen to me. This book has gotten many great reviews. But as a fan of David Sedaris, David Rakoff and other serious essayists, I found Susan Loh to be just another purveyor of useless words.
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Summary: HUMOR FOR THE SOUL!!
Review: Sandra Tsing Loh has written every thought we've ever had about L.A. and it's ever growing vastness. She is capable of wisely and humorously including all of her audience into her essays. Loh manages to capture all of our thoughts and ideas in one very exciting and funny way. In this book , she eloquently demonstrates how Ikea is the perfect bridge that closes the gap between generations and how "time shares" seem to be a little short of a paradise. The imperfections of Los angeles and the cities around and how it's these imperfections that Angelinos love is the main purpose. The strengths that this book supplys are very simple: humor. She has the capability of giving everything a silverlining. Anyone who can enjoy a little bit of sarcasm and humor all roled up into one will be able to enjoy this book.
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Summary: Finally, a book that I can relate to.
Review: Sandra Tsing Loh is like a long lost friend in Los Angeles. Not only can I relate to her essays of life's everyday situation, but she also does so in a hilarious kind of way. I often found myself actually laughing, especially when she talks about her dad in the essay "Daddy Dearest". It reminded me of my own dad almost to a 'T'. She makes you feel that life doesn't have to be serious all the time but to take life's adversity in a light-hearted way. One doesn't have to live in LA to relate to her essays because one can find themselves in similar situations. She gives great vivid details and that is the strength of the book. On the other hand, with her rambling, you kind of lose sight of her perspective but she quickly gets you back on track. This is one book that is definitely a keeper for anyone's personal library.
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