so-soAt nearly 1400 pages, this #chunkster manages to cram in quite a bit though the whole book takes plc in only a week! From business deals, espionage, weather disasters, horse races, a fire, feuds, romance and betrayals, this story of 1963 Hong Kong does keep the pages (delicately in this old copy!) turning. Written in 1981, it‘s interesting to see what attitudes have and haven‘t changed in the last 42 years. But the terms used show the book‘s age!
so-so(1981) The bestselling novel in the US in 1981 was this overlong potboiler, set in 1963 Hong Kong and involving business wars and spy games. To its credit, the plot is engaging and there is no shortage of incident. But for me it's just too full of itself: it leans too heavily into HK caricatures, spends too much time spinning connections to earlier books, stages a too-precious character representing the author himself, and is too too long.
pickEven though written in the 1980‘s about 1960, still relevant especially with the event in 2019 in Hong Kong. A great read.
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I have a few small chunky books. 😉
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This goes well with both challenges, #MayBookFlowers and #RockinMay.
The subtitle is "The Epic Novel of Modern Hong Kong". Well, this is #FarFlung, Hong Kong has changed a lot since the book was first published, and, for me, Hong Kong is pretty far away. Not to mention, it's in China, so #ChinaGrove kind of fits too.
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