Title: A Major Disapointment
Review: Reading the reviews in Amazon is usually much more informative than reading the marketing blurbs that appear on a book or frankly many of the reviews that appear in the press. The fact that this book was considered for the Booker award, the most important British literary award, is simply shocking. It points out that selling books is like any other business and therefore let the buyer beware. There are few books that I have reacted to so negatively in the last twenty years. The fact that many readers still appear to love the book and consider it a "masterpiece" is the only true mystery of this book for me. I suppose many people expect a great book from a popular and successful novelist, but this book in my opinion is a waste of time. It is a silly, illogical book that is also weirdly racist in its belief that the Chinese soldiers involved could have cared at all about this preposterous Englishmen and his missing family. It is not worth reading.
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