Trip to Hanoi

I found that I really liked Trip to Hanoi because of the completely different viewpoint that it gives about Vietnam. When I say completely different viewpoint I mean that in the sense that in almost all of the other books we have read and movies that we have watched, we are either right in the middle of the war, or reflecting on past war experiences. But in Trip to Hanoi, the author's main battles do not deal with the horrors of the Vietnam War but rather with breaking down cultural barriers and learning how to accept the Vietnamese culture for what it was. And I agree with the post before me when they said that the journaling was such an effective way to take the reader through the same journey as the author while he discovered how to appreciate the differeences between our cultures.