Thread 24524064

Is this shit worth reading? Its a trilogy

>hurrr fantasy by women durr

I know, i know

It's fantasy, written by anyone, so no.

Slop

>>24524064 (OP)
Babel was better.

>>24524064 (OP)
>Is this shit worth reading?
There are genuine smart writer, honest writer that knows his capacity, and a slick pretentious writer that constantly impose themselves (or using /tv/ word: insist upon themselvee) too much. Kuang falls under the third category; she's slick because she knows how dumb her audience are and how easy it is to manipulate them into thinking that this author is fuarking genius, but for those who are perceptive enough, yjk that this person is just trying too hard in imposing herself throughout the texts, makes you feel like shes a textbook academic writer, and I'm not saying it under positive light

>>24524064 (OP)
There isn't anything even halfway decent in the wuxia/xianxia genres that's in English, unless you consider some of the classics as falling under them.
>but what abou...
No. I'm telling you, I've looked extensively. It doesn't exist.
And it's not going to exist until a Chinese author with an actual interest in Chinese history and regional/culture differences tries to create something believable, instead of just playing into the genera tropes of the amalgamated "ancient China" that has grown up around it.

>>24524678
What's sad is China literally had its industrial revolution and not a single person was able to write a classic reflecting the changes between 1980-2000. There should have been a great expectations or even a David Copperfield. Even sadder is China is a literacy culture

>>24524064 (OP)
I've read it, the first book is the one I liked the least, mostly because the author just keeps ripping off historical stuff from the second sino-japanese war directly
the second and third books are fun to read, specially if you understand that the protagonist is supposed to be a parallel to Mao and that she's not supposed to be good or right during most of the trilogy, specifically towards the end
The parts where Altan (I think that's his name) and then the protagonist get hooked on opium are absolutely hilarious

>>24524814 (me)
most people will stop at the end of book 1 because the protagonist is a retard, but I think that book 2 and 3 are more interesting and better paced, so it's up to you if you want to follow a woman constantly being a retard and making the wrong choices one after another

>>24524552
>you feel like shes a textbook academic writer
I mean, she did go to Cambridge and Yale

>>24524833
The problem for me is that she is so young and has done nothing in life other than go to school, and the only struggle she seems to be exploring is the how hard it is to be asian in the US. Which makes no sense. Asians do very well in academia in the states. So she's just following trends and echoing the sentiments she's been exposed to in her sheltered academic life. It looks like every one of her books revolves around the idea of colonialism and white evil, which is a fine place to start, but a conventionally beautiful upper class asian american woman is NOT the person I would trust with that assignment. Bitter incel signing off

>>24524064 (OP)
It's honestly not that bad. For YA fantasy written by a woman, it def could've have been worse.
It starts with a kinda generic 'zero status person goes to high-status setting', and some pretty copy-paste stuff from ww2 japan china conflict, but it's not that bad about it, assuming you aren't sensitive about the subject. The main character's moral standards is kind of an interesting twist to the formula.
>>24524819
That is what I did. I might pick up the next ones if they are as good as you say.

>>24524503
Babel was a mess full of footnotes pointing out the obvious

Bump

is it true this book promotes wmaf?

>>24525295
Uhm, that's too fascist

>>24524064 (OP)
>white-hating author writes female-driven asian fantasy
that's all you need to know

>>24524870
>the only struggle she seems to be exploring is the how hard it is to be asian in the US.
She did this in "Yellowface," which is a hilarious book if you ignore Kuang's obvious seething dressed up as satire.

>>24526828
>which is a hilarious book
Post your tits

>>24524064 (OP)
They have this at the supermarket in the book section. I almost bought it a couple times but I dunno I feel like it's probably just a woke lecture

>>24525295
you're alive

>>24524064 (OP)
So according to this thread there’s stuff in here based on the Second Sino-Japanese War and not the first? Shame because I think the first one in the 1890s is much more interesting and much more unknown historically

>>24527579
You missed the point.

>>24524064 (OP)
No, it's not. Kuang is not a good writer. Even though this >>24524552 was clearly written by an ESL, it nails it.
>>24526828
Yellowface was very okay. Very much a "fantasy/fanfic writer tries to write serious literary fiction but has only read fanfic and critical monographs for the last five years." Also apparently when she was at Oxford she was known for being a gigantic asshole who did everything she could to sleep with all the white men on the debate team. Which is fascinating; black women, for example, have a whole "only date black, don't fall for the white man/woman" cultural thing going on, but Asians still seem to get bigwhitedickmatized even as they shout about how oppressed they are and how they get racism'd all the time. Only data point I have on this is that I used to know this Asian woman with gigantic tits who was very #StopAsianHate, very woke, in her college feminist org etc, who used to beg me to racially degrade her when we hooked up. Many, many, many, many such cases!

>>24524064 (OP)
It's part of a trend of Chinese authors getting praised and recommended for no meritocratic reason. I realize some people have yellow fever. but get real.

>>24529619
I would impregnate her. I would keep her chained in the basement as my sex slave and force her to cum over and over until she's broken. Provided it's consensual and all that. Rape is bad and I disapprove of it. But I have very explicit, detailed, sadistic sexual fantasies involving her, which I would love to make real, if she's into it and the stars align and all that.

>>24529667
>Provided it's consensual

>>24524819
>it's up to you if you want to follow a woman constantly being a retard and making the wrong choices one after another
I forgot to take this part of your post into account. I started reading book 2 and JESUS lmao

>>24529593
>Also apparently when she was at Oxford she was known for being a gigantic asshole who did everything she could to sleep with all the white men on the debate team.
Source?