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| Original Title: | The Emperor's Bones |
| ISBN: | 0340828153 (ISBN13: 9780340828151) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Adam Williams
Paperback | Pages: 736 pages Rating: 3.59 | 135 Users | 14 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Emperor's Bones |
| Author | : | Adam Williams |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 736 pages |
| Published | : | August 24th 2006 by Hodder Paperbacks (first published 2005) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Asia. China |
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It's taken me 9 months 10 days to finish reading this book and it's nothing compared to the historical background and description Mr. Williams offers in this book.When you have a story that's 736 pages long and is told over a decade set in a country on the verge of a revolution, then reading it one sitting must count for something right? I'm glad I took my time, cast the book aside and then returned to it, taking in as much as I could before doing something else.
About the book: Beautiful, headstrong and unconventional, Catherine Cabot is 20 years old when she arrives in China. Against an uneasy political background, a bittersweet triangular love affair develops between Catherine, Edmund and George Airton - and, all the while, she tries to uncover the truth behind her past.
I loved the writing style, the long paragraphs the description of the characters and essentially though set in a period of war, opium trade, and espionage, this felt more like
The heroine of the tale is Catherine Cabot, but she's got one friend Yu Fu-Kuei too who I felt did help bring out Catherine's quick thinking and make her more calculative in trying to survive the war.
On love, everyone desires Catherine; The Russian, Lin, George & Edmund Airton, William and the list is endless, but the one who gets her and cares less about her is George. Their marriage is nothing but a business deal for him and she's the trophy wife who jumps when he commands and that pissed me off! Her love for Edmund was the kind where he gave and she took- and I kept wondering how much of it he'd take...(this is the part where I admit that I am a hopeless romantic).
Well, this book was like the Moby Dick whaleto me, because I kept meaning to finish reading it but somehow never did so and to admit that I've read almost a hundred books since I started reading this goes to show something about the pace and the historical details within it.
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Ratings: 3.59 From 135 Users | 14 ReviewsAppraise Appertaining To Books The Emperor's Bones
Not worth my timeEpic read. Epilogue is fascinating. Found structure tricky as multiple story lines running concurrently and each chapter takes about 90 minutes to read. Just felt like too much story for a single book. Reminds me of Wild Swans in terms of being an epic.
The Emperors Bonesby Adam WilliamsPublished in 2006 by Hodder Paperbacks, Hodder and Stoughton LondonISBN 9 780340 8281521Adam Williams author of The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure, The Dragons Tail and The Book of the Alchemist is the fourth generation in his family living and working in China.The Emperors Bones, is a well-researched, historical epic novel written by an author who has first hand knowledge of the psyche and customs of this intriguing land. He has interwoven fact and fiction, taken
The sequel to The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure, which was set in 1899 China. Read the first novel while on sabbatical in Beijing, where I had a chance to hear an entertaining talk by the author, an Englishman whose family had lived and worked in China from the 1890. Though not a great fan on historical fiction, I rather enjoyed The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure, a guilty pleasure a bit like watching Korean historical drama. The sequel is set in the battle between warlords in the 1920s. It has a
I should probably start off by saying this is way outside of my usual genre. I do enjoy historical fiction from time to time, but this was verging on literary in its style and I didn't get on with it at all - in fact I DNF'd it at roughly halfway (326 pages).I found it a very densely written book, with long sentences, long paragrahs, long passages of description without break. Unfortuantely, though there were clearly some interesting things happening around the characters, they were described
Ero indecisa sulle 5 stelle. Il primo mi sembrava migliore.Lei la dà via un po' troppo facilmente; ci sono davvero troppe coincidenze; alcuni passaggi sono inutili, a mio avviso.Nonostante questo, un bellissimo romanzo.
It's taken me 9 months 10 days to finish reading this book and it's nothing compared to the historical background and description Mr. Williams offers in this book. When you have a story that's 736 pages long and is told over a decade set in a country on the verge of a revolution, then reading it one sitting must count for something right? I'm glad I took my time, cast the book aside and then returned to it, taking in as much as I could before doing something else.About the book: Beautiful,
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