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 started reading the first book and was digging it but then my life got hectic as hell and I quit about 2/3 of the way through. Plus the library loan was almost up.
But, I got a bit of an eyebrow raise over the one bit where they bring up the Aztecs and the horrors colonialism brought upon them, but then were like “yeah but the they committed human sacrifice so the blood shed was worth it to move their culture forward.” Granted the character in question was a member of the antagonist group so idk if that was an endorsement but…
Plus the library loan was almost up
If you got the dough, I suggest buying an ad-supported kindle and then jailbreaking it (see here for a starting point), wiping the ads thing from it, and then installing a way better reader: KOReader (which, among an absolute shitton of other advantages, supports epub). You make Bezos lose money, and you suddenly have access to the largest library in the history of our species: Libgen. Except you don’t even have to give the books back. Also, you can install apps on it (I have a terminal emulator with ssh + a chess game with a good AI on mine, for example).
I’m still on my first kindle I modded this way, and have been for like five years. They’re good hardware, and readability is good. I even bought two more along the years just as a backup for when mine breaks (which it never appears to do - I swear I dropped this thing at least 50 times).
Also, read the whole trilogy. It’s really good. And no, that weirdo aztec thing wasn’t an endorsement (at least I really don’t think so, having read the books more than once).
