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Tao Te Ching

by Lao Tzu · published -600 · read 2020-03-26

★★★★★

This review is for Ursula K. le Guin's rendition of the Tao Te Ching. It's not exactly a translation (she didn't know Chinese) – she compared a bunch of translations and consulted experts, but also wrote poetry and what seemed right to her.

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Folding Beijing

by Hao Jingfang · published 2015 · read 2022-08-24

★★★★☆

Points for creativity. A city that folds up and down, resource management. An underworld that doesn't even know it's the underworld. Plus all the classic dystopian surveillance stuff, which hits somewhat different when it's written in China

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The Three-Body Problem

by Liu Cixin · published 2006 · read 2018-08-10

★★★☆☆

I came into the first volume of Liu Cixin's Remembrance of Earth's Past with high expectations, as there was somewhat of a hype surrounding the book. It's nearly as good as (and too me, evocative of) Subjective Cosmology by Greg Egan.

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The Dark Forest

by Liu Cixin · published 2008 · read 2018-09-24

★★☆☆☆

I felt both bored and annoyed at The Dark Forest (sequel to Liu Cixin's The Three Body Problem). The plot was convoluted and wandering, but not all that bad – but the people in it continued to be cardboard cutouts of one motivat