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Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il
No country is as misunderstood as North Korea, and no modern tyrant has remained more mysterious than the Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il. Now, celebrity ghostwriter Michael Malice pulls back the curtain to expose the life story of the "Incarnation of Love and Morality." Taken directly from books spirited out of Pyongyang,
DEAR READER
is a carefully reconstructed first-person acc
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Hardcover
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420 pages
Published
January 25th 2014
by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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I don't think I can emphasize the unique nature of this book enough. There has been a spate of North Korean literature published in the English language in recent years, especially in the wake of the exodus from North Korea by refugees seeking to prevent their own deaths at the hands of a regime whose odiousness is world renowned. We've had an 800 page-long exegesis of the North Korean state by a western journalist, as well as a first-hand account by a Korean exile whose family was imprisoned in
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This book is very funny for the first 400 pages or so. It took me a while to figure out exactly what I was reading. This is a dramatization of the literature and propaganda from the DPRK. I rather enjoyed the book, but in the last few pages The author takes a different turn and essentially addresses the reader directly in an accusatory way.
I think I understand the DPRK a little bit better after having read the book and I'm glad I read it.
I think I understand the DPRK a little bit better after having read the book and I'm glad I read it.
Dark and deceptively funny. What starts of as an unofficial account of Kim Jong Il's life in recently liberated North Korea quickly devolves into a deeper look into the psyche of the man who controlled one of the most secretive nations in the world. At times amusing but mostly sinister, his blatant, unabashed and single minded view of what Korea wants and needs, leaves the reader feeling more uncomfortable than anything else. It was the ending (the last 4-5 pages) that really drive the point hom
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An interesting insight into the history of Kim Jong-Il. Although it is written as an autobiography, it is just a biography with a first-person perpective, so bears some slanting from the author.
Still, it does show the sort of mind-set that seems prevelant in North Korean politics.
Still, it does show the sort of mind-set that seems prevelant in North Korean politics.
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I don't even know what to say about this book other than it took forever for me to complete it and that I am glad that I live in the USA!
I don't even know what to say about this book other than it took forever for me to complete it and that I am glad that I live in the USA!
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