F/SF

I really enjoyed this book and the vast amount of characters involved. The world felt fleshed out and it seemed like the storyline was leading to a massive confrontation and then...the book just stopped. For such a massive tome I expected a better resolution. We'll see if the second book in the series improves upon the first. ( )

Perfect plot, pacing, world building, character development. ( )

A long sprawing space opera where China has taken over the world and rewritten history to hide European history. It is just too much and I just couldn't be bothered with it. ( )

This was, hands down, one of the three most vile books I've ever read in my life. It's not science fiction or Chinoiserie, as it pretends to be; it's torture-porn of the very nastiest sort. Apart from that, it's quite poorly written, and as science fiction it's grade "Z" at best.

An absolutely disgusting book. I feel as if the author tried to molest me. I've never burned or destroyed a book in my life, and I can't bring myself to start now, but I will not continue reading it and I will never open its pages again.

I wish I could give negative stars, because this book deserves thousands of them. Only Jack Chalker and one of the authors of the "Wild Cards" series have ever equalled the utter vileness of Chung Kuo.

If you like seeing "heroes" discover bizarre new ways to torture and rape innocent characters, then Chung Kuo is the book for you. If so, I hope you'll seek therapy and stay away from children. The only positive thing I can say about the book is that the writing and characters are all so flat and lifeless that the details of the book didn't linger in my memory for too long. Except that even one SECOND was too long to have some of that crap in my head! ( )