No Touch Monkey!: And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late (Paperback)

from bookwormteri

I was so excited to get this book in my hands, but what a disappointment it was. I was looking forward to zany mishaps and crazy misunderstandings, but just got boring whining about her stupid boyfriends, the bad weed, and horrible food. Blech!!!

from jdmays

A book is much more enjoyable if you think you might actually like the author if you spent any time with her in person. The author seemed a bit too taken with her own coolness and need to be like one of the politically correct "in people" who inhabit certain parts of New York City. The rest of us...

from Kassilem

Yea... this book crashed and died pretty early for me. VERY clearly not my style. I ended up skimming the second half of the book because I just couldn't take it anymore. It was all over the place, jumping from here to there and I didn't like the prose all that much. I did not invest in Ayun at a...

from skinglist

Is it bad that the cover was better than the book itself? It had it's moments but overall it was so-so and I found myself skimming the end because I just didn't care. I didn't care much for Ayun's style of writing, and her stories got tiresome after a bit. I think I'd already read the best bits e...

from ideasyncrasy

This is highly entertaining escapist reading, told with hilarious candour.