She agonized about what to write in her review. She typed her book review on the computer. It's the difference between writing like this: Somehow with all the hardships they endured together, there wasn't one instance of an argument or tension or an example of how they worked together to solve problems. Even his travel companion was rendered flat. Other than that last portion, the book is no more than a diary. These last pages also detailed the teacher/student relationship between the author and the Dalai Lama, and I did find it interesting to hear how someone so young was so intellectually curious. The first moments of suspense came in the last 40 or so pages where the Chinese invade Tibet and it is unclear what might happen to the Dalai Lama. I'm not sure how he managed to make two years of mountainous travel and seven years in a completely foreign land so boring, but he did. The makings of a riveting tale were there, but the manner in which Harrer tells his story could not have been more dull. However, I must admit to being surprised that he accomplished his mission. Harrer did a good deed by writing this memoir as it raised the awareness of Tibet and its oppression under the Chinese far and wide.
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