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A review by itsluisgomez
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
4.0
What to think of this book?
It's the portrait of one of the world's most fascinating & notorious dictators, unfailingly critical in tone and temper, awe inspiring in its specificity.
It's simultaneously too long and just the right amount of length. I'm admittedly a distracted reader, but even at my most focused, this book is a daunting collection of facts and dates and people and events and letters and poems and edicts and intrigue. There's a reason it took me five months to get past the Long March.
I would still recommend this wholeheartedly. Just, y'know, block out your calendar.
It's the portrait of one of the world's most fascinating & notorious dictators, unfailingly critical in tone and temper, awe inspiring in its specificity.
It's simultaneously too long and just the right amount of length. I'm admittedly a distracted reader, but even at my most focused, this book is a daunting collection of facts and dates and people and events and letters and poems and edicts and intrigue. There's a reason it took me five months to get past the Long March.
I would still recommend this wholeheartedly. Just, y'know, block out your calendar.