Eamonpw’s Reviews > Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China > Status Update

So far this is packed with information, but in the same way that Wikipedia is: the style is dry, events are not dramatized at all, and details are left to the reader's imagination. I imagine these preliminary chapters are mainly here to set the stage for an ensuing deep dive, but I'm not lying when I say that I'm missing some of the novelistic detail that can give a biography real life. Also, overly repetitious.