Duncan’s Comments (group member since May 26, 2009)

Duncan’s comments from the Reading For Fun or Not group.

Ed wrote: "Wow, people! Great!!!!

I had forgotten that I had even initiated this group.

I am currently on a Hong Kong Book jag. I just finished Chris Patten's "East and West" and am almost finished with P..."

Hi Ed,
If you have recently read Gweilo, I'd leave Hiroshima joe for a while. A lot of cross over between the two. i guess one is a memoir and the other a fictionalised account of his childhood. Both good though!

Xox wrote: "Does Prisoner of the State count? As it is written by a Mainland Chinese but is banned in China. It should be considered a Hong Kong book. "

Why not? Going to be read here more than in China, unfortunately. Is it any good?

Hello,
Seems no activity on this group, so as I have just found it, thought I might post a discussion topic. Since we are a HK group, what are your favourite (and least favourite) books that are set in HK or at least feature HK. My least favourite would be the Piano Teacher, just felt that was poorly written, clumsy, and lacked realistic characters. One of my favourites would be Martin Booth's Hiroshima Joe. Set in similar time to Piano Teacher, it was just so much more vivid for me and a better style of writing.