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It’s getting better as it goes along. In some places it seems that Pournelle had some regrets about his original premise.

This isn’t proving as good as the previous volumes in the series. I’m starting to appreciate why Pournelle never published it.

Jian’s use of modern psychology to explain Hong Xiuquan’s delirium is interesting, but he leans more onto it than he really should.