azaralia 's review for:

Tai-Pan by James Clavell
1.0
dark slow-paced
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I'm glad it's over.
No real challenges for protagnist -everything gets conviniently resolved through deus ex machina like plot points. Racism - chinesee women decribes as etheral exotic beauties, men as ugly and fat. Misogyny. Horrible portrayal of women. Protagonist very unlikable and painted as perfect male- all men want to be him or kill him and all the women (book specifies multiple Times that most of those women are UNDERAGE) want to be with him and think of each other as bitches due to jealousy. Multiple non resolved plot points. Bad pacing. Multiple long, boring and repetitive rants about hygiene. Multiple anegdotes that had No place in tis Novel and made me think the author didn't want his reasearch go to waste.