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I read books. Mostly travel books.

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Erwin Wickert's "China Seen From Within"
3.4

Erwin Wickert

Could this book have been better if the writer wasn’t a diplomat?

Serge Roetheli's - "The 25,000 Mile Love Story"
3.8
USA

Serge Roetheli

How can a book about a man running around the whole world be so boring?

Hans Ulrich Kempski's "Red Sun Over Yellow Earth"
4.2

Hans Ulrich Kempski

Are these just some minor slip-ups or was this writer completely duped?

Heinrich Schliemann's "China And Japan In The Present Age"
4.4

Heinrich Schliemann

Did the quest for scientific precision ruin this book?

Xiao Peng's "Ten Years Of Backpacking"
3.2

Xiaopeng

If this book isn’t badly written, then why is it still bad?

Tony Hawks' "Round Ireland With A Fridge"
3.4
Ireland

Tony Hawks

How far can humor carry a boring (and narcissist) story?

Stuart Stevens' "Night Train to Turkistan"
3.2

Stuart Stevens

Does this book do anything right except expose someone’s attitude toward China?

Lois Fisher-Ruge's "Go Gently Through Peking"
4.2

Lois Fisher-Ruge

Why is it important that young people from China read this today?

Edgar Snow's "Red Star Over China"
5.2

Edgar Snow

Why is this book so tragic, and what is the author’s role in the history he helped to create?

Egon Erwin Kisch's "Secret China"
4.2

Egon Erwin Kisch

What does 1930s China look like through the eyes of a European socialist?

Ernst Cordes' "The Lotus Lantern"
4.6

Ernst Cordes

What happens when an interesting author tries too hard to get his point across?

Wang Yuxi's "From West Coast To East Coast"
2.8

Wang Yuxi

Could this talented artist have done a bit more with the material he had?