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The Middle Kingdom - David Wingrove
The Middle Kingdom
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3.00 10
Format: paperback
ISBN: 9781848877313 (1848877315)
Publisher: Corvus (Atlantic Books)
Pages no: 342
Edition language: English
Series: Chung Kuo (#1)
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Reading Adler's List
Reading Adler's List rated it
3.0
Now past the prequels, The Middle Kingdom begins about 100 years where Daylight on Iron Mountain left off. A new cast of characters is introduced. The legacy of the main characters from the prequels is so muted I’m not sure there was much point in learning about them. It takes awhile to get a fee...
The Cranky Old Reader
The Cranky Old Reader rated it
1.0 Chung Kuo: The Middle Kingdom
This was, hands down, one of the three most vile books I've ever read in my life. It's not science fiction or Chinoiserie, as it pretends to be; it's torture-porn of the very nastiest sort. Apart from that, it's quite poorly written, and as science fiction it's grade "Z" at best.An absolutely disgus...
The Cranky Old Reader
The Cranky Old Reader rated it
1.0 CHUNG KUO: THE MIDDLE KINGDOM
This was, hands down, one of the three most vile books I've ever read in my life. It's not science fiction or Chinoiserie, as it pretends to be; it's torture-porn of the very nastiest sort. Apart from that, it's quite poorly written, and as science fiction it's grade "Z" at best.An absolutely disgus...
Traveller
Traveller rated it
Ouch, this will teach me to grab books at the used bookstore without checking it out properly first, especially on Goodreads! Quite excited about my 'find', thinking I had bought a speculative fiction novel set in medieval era China, I searched the ISBN # only to find from the reviews that it is app...
Amadan na Briona
Amadan na Briona rated it
3.0
This is the first doorstopper of a book in a multi-volume epic; I believe I read the first three or so, years ago. The basic premise is that the world is dominated in the future by a global Chinese empire. The setting is a high-tech futuristic one with a culture that has inexplicably reverted to dyn...
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