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Tapaus Mao (2009)

by Qiu Xiaolong(Favorite Author)

3.52 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Otava

series

Inspector Chen Cao

review 1: At first I had a time getting into the story but when Chief Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police Department stared to investigate the case I couldn't put it down, and in the end - no I didn't guess who was the culprit. I love how he searches out each lead even when it means traveling and being patience with people, this book has me thinking I will follow this author for a while who spins wonderful tails in his investigation hunt.
review 2: 2.5 * I didn't particularly like this book and I really didn't enjoy the writing style. I don't think it was a bad book per se, but I do feel that it was clumsy and cluncky, and the end was really overwritten. As our detective finally puts the pieces together you can't help but think, well duh, having come to that conclusio... moren a fair while earlier. The way he played with expectations of the genre was pretty interesting (to the extent that it didn't really feel like a detective novel at all) and his idea of using crime fiction as a gateway to explore the past is an interesting one, however I'm not entirely sure it worked. Moreover, the characters really fell flat, and I also found the dialogue contrived and just generally unrealistic. It was nice to have something more 'commercial' on my reading list and the discussion we had in my seminar, as I said was interesting, but I will say this book disappointed. less

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