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Ed Lin

Teoksen Ghost Month tekijä

10+ teosta 364 jäsentä 19 arvostelua

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Tekijän teokset

Ghost Month (2014) 107 kappaletta
Waylaid (2002) 56 kappaletta
This Is a Bust (2007) 56 kappaletta
One Red Bastard (2012) 20 kappaletta
Motherfuckerland (2021) 2 kappaletta

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Kansalaisuus
USA
Syntymäpaikka
New York, USA

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Kirja-arvosteluja

Story: 4.0 / 10
Characters: 7
Setting: 8
Prose: 7
 
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MXMLLN | 5 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 12, 2024 |
I picked this book up at a library book sale thinking it was going to actually involve ghosts or the supernatural, but it does not. (The sale was crowded, the books not really organized, so I just snatched some things that looked interesting without researching plots)

The edition I picked up was an unedited galley, so I'm not sure how much it changed from the edition I read to the final. I found the story fairly slow moving, bogged down with lengthy asides about Taiwanese culture, especially involving those of native/Chinese/Japanese lineage, which didn't really figure into the mystery at hand: Who murdered Jing-nan's fiance?

The main character's main defining characteristic is that he's been really into Joy Division since discovering them in middle school, and he references this interest a lot, but the music/lyrics/themes from the music or the history of the band also have no bearing on the plot. Basically this author talked about several 'guns on the table', and then left them sitting there. Luckily he doesn't exacerbate this tendency by also making the book lengthy.

It was a meh read, mainly valuable because of what you learn about Taiwan along the way.
… (lisätietoja)
 
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Samberry | 4 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Aug 3, 2019 |
Fun foodie crime set in Taipei. Not too violent, a quick read and entertaining.
 
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bostonbibliophile | Jul 17, 2019 |
Definitely not your average coming of age story. It is narrated by a 12 year Chinese American boy who is tasked with helping to run his parents motel at the Jersey shore (think Asbury Park, not Cape May) in the early 80's and who is determined to lose his virginity.
The motel is a complete dump, that other than during the summer, basically rents rooms by the hour.
The story is very crude, and also very funny.
 
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zmagic69 | 5 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Aug 17, 2017 |

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Teokset
10
Also by
2
Jäseniä
364
Suosituimmuussija
#66,014
Arvio (tähdet)
½ 3.4
Kirja-arvosteluja
19
ISBN:t
46

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