I’m a big science fiction fan so I thought I’d give it a go, it appears to be pretty critical of the Chinese cultural revolution. I don’t know much about Chinese politics/ history but I thought the government has pretty strict censorship laws, just interested if anyone knows the actual political stance of the book?
i finished the 1st and the 2nd was starting kinda slow so i gave up. should i not have?
Definitely. The 2nd book is my least favorite (but still quite good). It doesn’t have the central mystery pushing it forward like the first one did, nor does it have the things that the third book has going for it.
As far as the third book- I’ve never seen a book top itself so consistently. Every time you think you have a handle on what the rest of the book is going to be about, it turns out that’s actually what the next 10 pages are about, and the overall scope expands dramatically each time that happens. There’s some weird sexist shit in both that and the second book though.
