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    3 Stars Holy Cow! This Book Surprised Me Review with images 04/09/2011
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    Advantages Advantages Religions handled in breadth rather than depth

    Disadvantages Disadvantages I wanted more history and less chanting and meditating

    Never Judge a Book by Your Preconceived Snobberies (or the cover) I wasn't expecting to like Holy Cow by Sarah Macdonald. She got off to a bad start for me with some glaring geographic and historical errors (claiming Rishikesh was 200 km from Dehradun – it's about 40 minutes in a taxi) and a lot of moaning and whining about how filthy and smoggy Delhi was. I did think to myself “Oh no, here we go again. Another airhead antipodean off to India to 'find' herself and not bothering to do her research” and my instinct wasn't entirely wrong – there's far too much dipping into the smorgasbord of ... more
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