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A review by isauldur
Gai-Jin by James Clavell
2.0
Better written than Shogun, but whereas that book was infuriating, this one is just exhausting. I read 300 pages and the plot is still getting set up. The British and Japanese are still at a stalemate, the relationship between Malcolm and Angelique is pretty much static and the politicking is moving in circles and not really going anywhere.
Pages are wasted to describe circuitously events that could easily be streamlined. Clavell doesn't describe a scene as much as list things in it. Neither this book or Shogun has any atmosphere whatsoever which leads to the world feeling flat and boring.
I stubbornly want to finish a book of his, to love it as so many other people do. But this book wasn't it.
Pages are wasted to describe circuitously events that could easily be streamlined. Clavell doesn't describe a scene as much as list things in it. Neither this book or Shogun has any atmosphere whatsoever which leads to the world feeling flat and boring.
I stubbornly want to finish a book of his, to love it as so many other people do. But this book wasn't it.