Book Review and the East vs West literary backgrounds of reviewers

Let's look at two reviewer's pieces on David Peace's Occupied City, his second book in his planned trilogy.

First, read the what the West-based reviewer has to say:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_reviews/article6733250.ece

Then read what an East-based reviewer has to say:
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/fb20090802a1.html

Now ain't that a wonderful insight ?

I want to read the book.

Peace, David, OCCUPIED CITY, Faber and Faber, London, 2009, 288 pp.