Jump to content
Chinese-Forums
  • Sign Up

Chinese Eco-thriller recommendation and invitation... Chen Qiufan, Waste Tide


roddy

Recommended Posts

Last year I started reading it in Chinese but soon got fed up with all the technical vocabulary, even with pop-up dictionary on the e-book, it was too much, and I have little use for all those high tech terms. I gave up the 原文  and read the English translation by Ken Liu .

 

I thought it was an interesting novel, with much for further thought and discussion, definitely worth a read. 

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

@Tomsima Good to hear. I've basically got notes on the first 15% or so of the book, and would hope to have a chunk more done before I actually started. Off the top of my head, I'd start the actual posts middle of next week. 

@Luxi I do know what you mean, it's a bit rapidfire at the start at least, I'd imagine the new vocab drops off over time. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Still making my way through this. There are chucks of descriptions of technology, which I think have eased off now, but also descriptions of traditions / rituals, which could be slowing and off-putting, but I'm still enjoying it. I do somewhat hope the pace speeds up a bit now I've finished Part 1 and conflicts are starting to fall into place. 


Will post for anyone else reading maybe mid-week, hopefully. 

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

On 3/22/2020 at 9:04 PM, Tomsima said:

hopefully it starts to pick up

Read the first chapter of Part 2 yesterday - I think it's safe to say things have started to happen. Some of them so unpleasant I'll probably want to warn people about them - but then some enjoyable use of the technology available. There's some potentially spooky stuff happening, which I hope will be tech-splained later, rather than left as magic. More enthused about the rest of the book now. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and select your username and password later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Click here to reply. Select text to quote.

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
×
  • Create New...