Martial Arts in Japan (Angry White Pyjamas - Robert Twigger)

Member Name: elbar1

Product:	Angry White Pyjamas - Robert Twigger
Date:	10/01/09 (15 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Easy to read and interesting

Disadvantages: None

Angry White Pyjamas is a really unusual book. It is well worth a read if you want to try something a bit different.

It is classed as a travel book. It is set in Japan. The author is a poet from Oxford who is in Japan teaching English. He decides to learn martial arts. Not any martial art but the toughest kind there is. He signs up for a course that the police do. He finds it really difficult and the book details his classes and how he feels about them.

On the face of it, this is a book about martial arts and if you are interested in this field, you will enjoy the book. However, it also gives lots of information about life in modern Japan. It is therefore also good for people wanting to learn about Japan and its culture. To be honest, I was not particularly interested in either of these topics and yet I still throughly enjoyed the book.

Robert Twigger is an excellent writer and this is a very easy book to read. He gets a good balance of history, story-telling and humour. You can really empathise with his pain and struggle, even though I doubt many people reading it will ever have gone through a similar experience.

A random book that is very enjoyable to read.

Summary: Highly recommended!