- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: House of Fire Pr (November 1988)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0929491009
- ISBN-13: 978-0929491004
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,849,907 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This review is from: The Wallet of Kai Lung (Paperback)
Bramah sure can spin a phrase. The book is a collection of stories told by Kai Lung, and as such is excellent. You are transported back into this fictional China, where introductions can take hours as the two people flatter each other & humble themselves endlessly. The stories are very amusing, but be forewarned; the language takes some time to read through & comprehend. Not a book to breeze through (but oh so rewarding when you do read it!)
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This humble reviewer can not possibly do this book justice..,
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This review is from: The Wallet of Kai Lung (Paperback)
Bramah sure can spin a phrase. The book is a collection of stories told by Kai Lung, and as such is excellent. You are transported back into this fictional China, where introductions can take hours as the two people flatter each other & humble themselves endlessly. The stories are very amusing, but be forewarned; the language takes some time to read through & comprehend. Not a book to breeze through (but oh so rewarding when you do read it!)
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Great read,
By B. Wilson - Published on Amazon.com
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I love the over-the-top pseudo-chinese-classical style of Bramah's writing: "It is indeed unlikely that you could condescend to stop and listen to the foolish words of such an insignificant and altogether deformed person as myself. Nevertheless, if you could retard your elegant footsteps for a few moments, this exeedingly unprepossessing individual will endeavor to entertain you."If you don't like that style, you'll find it difficult to get past it to the entertaining and humorous stories of Kai Lung. The formatting could use some improvement (uneven margins on my iPhone, double line breaks for paragraphs), but it's not too bad. 8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Truely great book,
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This review is from: Wallet of Kai Lung (Paperback)
The Kai Lung books have a nice dry humour, a beautifully way of turning a phrase and a concoluted way of using the english language. It is a China that never was but really ought to have been.
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