If you google “ 《親愛的安德烈 》 讀後感 ” You get About 93,700 results in less than 50 seconds. Here is the first one on the list: http://www.epochtimes.com/b5/8/3/28/n2062625.htm And, you can find many, many more positive reviews. Here, I want to share some not-so-positive thoughts about the book. (No, I am not arrogant; I am just a little different.) I finished "flipping" through the pages online. You can read it yourself: http://book.zi5.me/books/read/2360/1 I liked bits and pieces of it, but I was very disappointed with her Chinese writing. Gosh. Her Chinese language usage is sooooo poor. (Yeah, wait until I start to write in Chinese :) Ok, let’s call it Taiwanese, which I do not know, and leave it alone for now. First, why did I read this book? Well, I wanted to have something to talk to my father about. He mentioned this book to me many times, but I never paid much attention to it (the book). That’s because I was busy, I didn’t have the book, and I was doing the best I could to raise my teenage son. When I found the book online last week, I decided to “read” it. Maybe I wanted to please my father, especially now that he is really old and not in good health. Now, I will have a lot to say to my father, but what I will say to him may not actually please him, I am afraid. Still, I will tell him honestly what I think of this book. Some reader wrote:” 这是一部可以跟《傅雷家书》媲美的书 , …” “No, this is NOT true!” I say. Why? Letters between a father and a son were written for the two of them only, which may be shared by other family members but NOT by the public. Even when some of these letters are published later on, which I would never do, such letters are real letters. The so-called letters in this book, however, were staged, to be published. Knowing what she or he wrote would be read by strangers, shouldn’t we also treat them as “shows”? Clearly, the son never mentioned how he felt about not having a mother nearby for FOUR years, which is something I, as a mother, did NOT want to do. Also very clearly, the mother didn’t want to share much of her (current) private life, which I am thankful. The mother’s intention was to get to know her older son, who was 18 when she left her public office duty in Taiwan, after having been absent for four years. I am sure many mothers do. I, on the other hand, can understand why a son does not want to share his teen life. I may not remember what I did last week (thanks to my aging brain), but I remember a few terrible things I did as a child and as a teen. There was NO way I wanted my parents to ever find out what those horrible things were. I was young, but I wanted my own space, though privacy was hard to come by in the 1960s and 1970s in China. I wanted to live my own life, to make mistakes and to move on… Sure, I would listen to my son, if he is willing to share. But, I will NOT pay him to write to me, and will NEVER ask him to write about his private thoughts for the sake of earning spending money. I do tell my son I love him very much and I am always there for him. The rest is up to him. Legally, 18 years old is an adult, though he is not legally to drink in public places in the US.