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Title: Noble House - A Huge Disappointment
Review: After reading the previous four novels of Clavell's Asian Saga, I was very disappointed in Noble House. Shogun, Tai-Pan, King Rat, and Gai-Jin were absolutely fantastic; exciting with a lot of action and colorful characters. The characters in Noble House are excellent, but the constant detailed diatribe about the finances of taking over the Noble House was way overdone and constantly repeated. I'm amazed that Clavell wrote this book because all the hashing about money consistently stopped the ACTION of the story. The first thing a writer learns is to keep the action going. I found most of this book as boring as watching paint dry. The plot lines about espionage were good and Clavell should have expanded that story line and cut out the constant rehashing of the bank's problems and Casey's "drop dead" money. Like, we got the point.
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