A review by geekberry
Gai-Jin by James Clavell

3.0

This entry to the Asian Saga isn't nearly as good as its two predecessors. Although it has the same gripping prose that can suck you in, it's much too long and has too little substance. Hardly anything of importance happens in the first 500 pages! The second half is much better, with increasing stakes in all story lines, and the satisfying conclusion wants to trick you into thinking the whole journey was satisfying. I haven't yet forgotten the 100 descriptions of the same character's tits or occasionally wanting to piff the book across the room, bored out of my brain. The good bits are still good, but there are way too many mediocre or bad bits to balance out.