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A review by daynpitseleh
1988: I Want to Talk with the World 我想和這個世界談談 by 韓寒, Han Han
3.0
I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
I didn't know much about Han Han before I started reading this. After a quick search, I found out that he was a Chinese blogger/rally car driver who managed to irritate both Chinese conservatives and Ai Weiwei. I was intrigued.
This book was alright. Certain parts of it were really interesting to me, and there were some great sections of prose. However, other parts of the books were really boring to me (the section about when the main character was a journalist). The depictions of women were somewhat iffy in spots, and I don't feel like the story did enough.
I read some of Han Han's blog posts, and I found those much more interesting and compelling. I wish some more of that had come across in this book.
I didn't know much about Han Han before I started reading this. After a quick search, I found out that he was a Chinese blogger/rally car driver who managed to irritate both Chinese conservatives and Ai Weiwei. I was intrigued.
This book was alright. Certain parts of it were really interesting to me, and there were some great sections of prose. However, other parts of the books were really boring to me (the section about when the main character was a journalist). The depictions of women were somewhat iffy in spots, and I don't feel like the story did enough.
I read some of Han Han's blog posts, and I found those much more interesting and compelling. I wish some more of that had come across in this book.