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?
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).
