Thread:GalaxE/@comment-36159587-20191107004319/@comment-36159587-20191121001646

It's too ugly to show. My art, not the specimen of a scene.

I just finished Dreams of Joy. Good book; I revere the narration. Bias? Not so much.

The Great Leap Forward was a terrible event, and Maozedong (no, his name is not whatever the heck English speakers translated it to) wasn't the greatest leader, either, or the greatest person, for that matter. He did wrong things, said the wrong things, all of that and more. I won't condone what he did and what happened to the people. Nonetheless, all the book focuses on is the bad of China, and the little bits of good are overlapped by the prejudice of the characters in charge of narrating--one, naïve, and the second, assimilated into American culture. No wrongs about America--and do keep in mind, it's by an American author.

The book has great lessons to teach, but obviously, like other books, it would need work as well.

Also I read "she handed her child to the widow" as "she handed her child to the window" and I freaked.

-Galaxian-