Reviews - Chinatown interiore

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Chinatown interiore

Charles Yu

4.02 AVERAGE

stasibabi's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous funny reflective fast-paced

kperry354's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

princesstempura's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous emotional funny fast-paced

mrsmeowmix's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A difficult read for me at some points as a Taiwanese American myself. I thought it was too pessimistic but appreciated the satirical perspective and really enjoyed the last chapters with OB and the history of the laws and how the story wrapped up with the same realization and acceptance of my own American identity and experience. This book has verbalized everything I’ve ever wanted to say but didn’t have the words for.

bellapey's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark funny mysterious reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mommapajama83's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book was amazing. Complicated but also amazing. I think I would have been better of to read it vs listening to it as it is written very much like a script. I keep trying to describe it to people and it just isn't working. The plot is complicated bc it floats in between the ether of reality and the flat world of tv scripts and racial stereotypes. At times characters exist without names, just placeholder description of old asian man, older brother, kung fu guy. Multiple characters can embody those descriptors at time bc who they are doesn't matter even though it does. I work in film and television so i definitely appreciated the writing style and the points that were made. I loved the books so much and just really enjoyed the magical realism along with the strong points about racism and what it is to be Asian in America.