I read books. Mostly travel books.
![Erwin Wickert's "China Seen From Within"](https://www.bookslap.com/assets/uploads/2014/08/TLW-20140506-131040.jpg)
Erwin Wickert
Could this book have been better if the writer wasn’t a diplomat?
![Serge Roetheli's - "The 25,000 Mile Love Story"](https://www.bookslap.com/assets/uploads/2014/08/TLW-20140806-131711.jpg)
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"](https://www.bookslap.com/assets/uploads/2014/05/TLW-20140506-131006.jpg)
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"](https://www.bookslap.com/assets/uploads/2014/05/TLW-20140506-125637.jpg)
Heinrich Schliemann
Did the quest for scientific precision ruin this book?
![Xiao Peng's "Ten Years Of Backpacking"](https://www.bookslap.com/assets/uploads/2014/05/TLW-20140516-171606.jpg)
Xiaopeng
If this book isn’t badly written, then why is it still bad?
![Tony Hawks' "Round Ireland With A Fridge"](https://www.bookslap.com/assets/uploads/2014/05/TLW-20140430-145330.jpg)
Tony Hawks
How far can humor carry a boring (and narcissist) story?
![Stuart Stevens' "Night Train to Turkistan"](https://www.bookslap.com/assets/uploads/2014/05/TLW-20140430-142159.jpg)
Stuart Stevens
Does this book do anything right except expose someone’s attitude toward China?
![Lois Fisher-Ruge's "Go Gently Through Peking"](https://www.bookslap.com/assets/uploads/2014/04/TLW-20140430-153246.jpg)
Lois Fisher-Ruge
Why is it important that young people from China read this today?
![Edgar Snow's "Red Star Over China"](https://www.bookslap.com/assets/uploads/2014/04/TLW-20140430-142225.jpg)
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"](https://www.bookslap.com/assets/uploads/2014/04/TLW-20140430-141743.jpg)
Egon Erwin Kisch
What does 1930s China look like through the eyes of a European socialist?
![Ernst Cordes' "The Lotus Lantern"](https://www.bookslap.com/assets/uploads/2014/04/TLW-20140430-142048.jpg)
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"](https://www.bookslap.com/assets/uploads/2014/04/TLW-20140430-141646.jpg)
Wang Yuxi
Could this talented artist have done a bit more with the material he had?