Title: Good subject; terrible style
Product review: I agree with Caroline Higgens. I have travelled in China and enjoyed Peter Hessler's "River Town: Two years on the Yangtze". I suspected there would be problems right from the beginning when I noticed that Mr. Winchester never expressed in a single sentence what couldn't be expanded into three paragraphs. I reached as far as page 28, where Mr. Winchester writes "...she could be the ideal companion: when matters became too trying she would brook no nonsense, give no quarter, take no prisoners".Three cliches in a row is about three more than I want to read.
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