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Title: Ridiculous
Review: Interesting concept: How would the world react to enormous gold and oil reserves being found in Siberia.The problem is that the book makes things so much simpler than the world really is. Every American is Clancy the corny hero. And every Chinese character is the bad guy who 'hates those greedy Americans who try to control us, because we are the superior race'.Of course this is just supposed to be one long (1137 pages) roller coaster of action, and is fiction after all. It is just that the treatment is so unfair and the stereotyping is taken to the absurd lengths that one would expect of a farce, not a serious thriller.My point is if you are setting a novel in real places like China and America at least try a little to represent the actual complexity of these places. If you're not going to, then rather make it sci-fi and set it in a made-up world.
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