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Summary: The voice of a really small generation
Review: Sandra Tsing Loh is my age -- right in that little crevice between the boomers and GenX. There are at least twelve of us from the Valley, I think, and she's got us nailed.I read DEPTH TAKES A HOLIDAY on the plane from Los Angeles (my home) to New York (where I live for a while) and liked it enough to find this site and write this. Which is a lot.
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Summary: The Reality Check for Todays Young Generation Living In L.A.
Review: Sandra Tsing Loh"s book "Depth Takes a Holiday" is a fine example of how our generation has to live with the hardships of life in L.A.. She takes us through many of her great experiences in depth with a great deal of humor and reality, which makes a reader keep on wanting to continue on reading and reading. Reading this book makes the reader get more and more involved in the reading materials, because as a person who lives in L.A.. I can definetly relate to what she is talking about or relate to the same situations. "IkEA!" one of the short essays in this book really goes out there and brings reality to myself, I could relate to it, because I had the same reactions and did the same things as she did once I got to explore IKEA from a personal point of view. In her collection of small essays she takes the all hyped up L.A. life that everyone who is not her talks about and brings out the reality that each and every one of us has to deal with living in L.A.. It gives us a chnace to see L.A. as a poor persons point of view, as a students point of view, and as a working adults point of view. The book teaches us how diverse life in L.A. is and how different ethnic groups combine together to make L.A. what it is, and give everyone a chance to hear and talk about L.A., as a wonderful place until they get a chance to experience L.A. in depth.
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Summary: It was a great book to read
Review: Sandra Tsing Loh's book "DEPTH TAKES A HOLIDAY" is a collection of essays about the day to day lives of a generation in search of cultural identity, financial stability and a sense of belonging. One of Loh's essay "Ikea! Cry of a lost generation" is about "the late Boomers". The late boomers as she calls them, is the generation that followed the Baby Boomers. She makes fun of the fact that Late Boomers lack cultural identity, and have nothing to identified themselves with. Unlike the Baby Boomers, which had hippies and rock'n roll. she points out that the Late Boomers came of age in an era of economic depression unlike the yuppies which came of age in a booming economy, the time of "Real-Estate speculation,junk bonds and stealing"as Loh's reefers to this era. Even though our Late Boomers arewell educated, they are a generation without foresight about their future because of the lack of financial stability,cultural identity and a sense of belonging. Loh's addresses this reality in a funny, sarcastic way by stating "The Flower children had woodstock, the Yuppies had BMW's. What cultural signpost have the late Boomers enjoyed?". Loh's fist hand experience gives her a sense of authority. She belongs to this generation. She has experience the economic instability. She lacks cultural identity. We Know this, because she tells us in her essay COMING HOME TO VAN-NUYS "wondering through parking lot C at LAX looking for her 1973. VW with its bad clutch". She may not have cultural identity or the means to get a newer car or just fix her car, but she does have a good sense of humor. Loh's compares one generation to another their differences, accomplishments, expectations and cultural differences. She accomplishes this with her well described passages and a sarcastic way of perceiving things and events. Her great sense of humor makes this book enjoyable and easy to read. For those who are from the Late Boomers generation, DEPTH TAKES A HOLIDAY IS A MUST READ! book it will give them a sense of belonging and the realization that they are not a lone in their quest for identity.
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Summary: It's interesting!!!
Review: Sandra Tsing Loh's collection of essays called Depth Takes a Holiday contains enjoyable and understandable essays. They are written based on Loh's own experiences, and are about some locations where she has visited. She describes places with her wealthy expression and what they look and feel like by her wide eyes and acceptable emotion. Also, she explains well by giving us picture of those locations by her vivid words that we could imagine the place, and make us want to visit there. Most of locations that are in her essays are in Los Angeles and are around us; you might have visited. It is fun to read essays like Loh's, that talks about something you, have seen or know. I suggest that it would be interesting and easy to understand her essay if you have been those places. I enjoyed her essays because I knew some places where she talked about, and I knew what exactly she was talking about. It was fun to read well-recited essays. The essay itself is Loh's real story that she has experienced.
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Summary: A Comical View Towards LA's Changing Culture
Review: Sandra Tsing Loh's collection of essays called Depth Takes a Holiday is, ironically, an in-depth journey of common, every day life with Loh as our driver. A native of Los Angeles, Loh depicts the many social changes of this vast urban wasteland known as home to millions of other Los Angelinos. The reader gets a better, if not comical, idea of what is going on and where LA and it's inhabitants are from and where they are going. LA is demonstrated as an ever-growing melting pot, both culturally and socially, with its residents who are a people of a lost identity in both aspects. One of the many things I love about this book is Loh's lighthearted approach which shows readers the serious effects of living in a multi-cultural environment where English-only rules dominate. Anyone who resides in LA and feels the need to laugh at its harsh realities will enjoy this book. I did. Melanie Ulloa Cal State LA, Liberal Studies Major July 21, 1999
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Summary: A comical view of everything L.A
Review: Sandra Tsing Loh's Depth Takes A Holiday is a wonderful and hilarious collection of essays about Los Angeles. This collection of essays offers us a view of L.A from an "Overeducated, underemployed" late bloomer who just happens to be drowning in student loan payments (sound familiar). Loh's essays offers a wide assortment of topics from "The Joy of Temping" to "Tonya Harding, Actress". Loh's portrayal of everything L.A in a comical view makes it difficult to stop reading. The only time this book dissapoints is when you realize your at the end. Everyone whose ever been to, or heard of L.A will find something to relate to. If you live in L.A or are coming to L.A you should read this book.
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Summary: A Fun Peek into LA Culture!
Review: Sandra Tsing Loh's essays are a great window into one of the real cultures in LA (as opposed to the cliched LA-is-all-about-glamour perspective that so many have ground out over the years). Her point-of-view is always fun, interresting and *FUNNY*. CHeck it out!
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Summary: You got to read this!!!!
Review: The first impression of having, Depth Takes a Holiday, in college English class brings lots of excitement from the usual boring texts a person might read. All the essays eject comical details such as having IKEA as being a savior to the lost generation to talking dirty on the Internet. Sandra Tsing Loh is one of the hilarious and witty authors around. Her amusing insights about Los Angeles lets us see through her eyes how idiotic our life in the big city real is. After reading one of her many humorous essays, you might even want to finish it and still be begging for more!!! A word of advice to all you teachers out there, reconsider of adding this to your list of required books. It will surely keep the students happy and you can trick them in learn more about L.A. inconstant social structure.
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Summary: This book is so funny I fell off my chair
Review: This book contains many short essays -- the majority of them are excruciatingly funny and also offer thoughtful commentary on Los Angeles life. Reading this book has helped me understand why I find L.A. simultaneously alluring and repulsive. Also the essay on how to analyze someone by the type of earrings they wear has helped me greatly in negotiating parties and social gatherings. You won't regret reading this book.
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Summary: The *kayters* review
Review: This book is a collection of essays from Ms. Loh, a sometime NPR commentator and freelance writer. While some of them just weren't my cup of tea - for instance we don't even HAVE Ikea in Atlanta - some of them were dead funny. I thoroughly enjoyed her essay on how she accidentally had cybersex - I laughed out loud - as well as her acerbic commentary on political correctness and multiculturalism. I also enjoyed the pathetically tragic essay on the California Riviera. I've already purchased a copy of her novel If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home By Now and plan to read it soon.
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