Robert Asahina
Auteur de Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home and Abroad
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: photo by Wagner International
Œuvres de Robert Asahina
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1950
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
- Études
- New York University
University of Michigan - Professions
- editor (New York Sun)
film critic
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 104
- Popularité
- #184,481
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 6
(Not-so) small annoyance: the reader should have been coached better on the pronunciation of Japanese surnames and Hawai'i place names. It's petty, but it grates on my nerves every time I had to hear him drawl out names like Ito (EE-toe) and Inouye (ee-know-WAY) repeatedly, and then just butcher others like I'olani (eye-oh-laaan-ee) Palace, yet gives a fairly graceful and practiced pronunciation of French and German place names. Just a little coaching would have done wonders. Also, when the reader quotes individuals, with an exaggerated American Southern drawl, and German and French accents, it is just annoying and tacky.… (plus d'informations)