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Noble House
Noble House | James Clavell
The setting is Hong Kong, 1963. The action spans scarcely more than a week, but these are days of high adventure: from kidnapping and murder to financial double-dealing and natural catastrophesfire, flood, landslide. Yet they are days filled as well with all the mystery and romance of Hong Kongthe heart of Asiarich in every trademoney, flesh, opium, power.From the Paperback edition.
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TorieStorieS
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At 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!

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swynn
Noble House | James Clavell
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(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.

Ruthiella I loved Shogun which I read in the last century. But I never read any of his other novels. 1y
swynn @Ruthiella Noble House was probably a bad place to start, especially because of frequent references to previous books, including Shogun. I think I'd have had a more positive reaction to Shogun or King Rat, but probably won't test that theory soon. 😀 1y
TorieStorieS I felt the same way about starting here… but my dad who recently re-read this one insisted that it wouldn‘t matter about the order. I called him bout halfway through and he laughed and admitted that the order does matter more than he remembered (he is re-reading them out of order and just embracing/spreading chaos!!) 11mo
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Yvonne_Rediger
Noble House | James Clavell
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Even 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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Sha0102
Noble House | James Clavell
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🍷Fiery Cross and Noble House
🍷Big books
🍷Black w sweetener
🍷Ceilon tea
🍷My bed
🍷Always loved
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julesG
Noble House | James Clavell
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#Chunkster

I have a few small chunky books. 😉

#SplashIntoSummerReads
@Tiffy_Reads

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Sha0102 Noble House was one of my favorites books that I read when I was around 16.... good times.. 7y
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julesG
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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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Cinfhen Works for me! 7y
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