 | Title: Noble House Hongkong title: Noble House Author: James Clavell Year: 1981 Pages: 1370 pages Rating:  Now: Amazon (English) Clavell great novel, which is like decried as a continuation of Tai-Pan that is limited. Was Tai-Pan | from the early days of Hong Kong, Noble House plays |
Tai-Pan
. Anyone have any other book by James Clavell has read, but is coming along well also. Ian Dunross, new corporate boss of Struan, the "Noble House" in Hong Kong, modernize the trading house. Despite great outlook on the stock he receives financial problems. The situation became too uncomfortable, as the son of his adviser, is kidnapped, his opponent Gornt would do anything to Dunross to thrust from his throne, there a several spies on the scene and also flown in, American investor Lincoln Bartlett his very own dirty goals pursued-or? It follows a financial crisis, which only takes about a week, but the nerves of any interested parties to the ordeal.
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Noble House has become a true espionage and economic thriller, which seems to do so before any epic theme support. The combined collection of terms such as espionage, stock market speculation, financial crisis, kidnapping, murder, hostile takeovers, secret, world politics, arms trafficking and natural disasters likely to deter many in advance. One should think that this particular topic to bore the reader inexperienced in all of the detailed business strategies discussed quite badly, but nevertheless remains Noble House also to those for the economy and Co. not exactly form the focus of interest, de gros exciting. James Clavell fact proves clearly that you can actually, with over 1300 pages but describe a period of little more than a week without (but) to be bored. This lay his pen seems incredibly detailed and vivid, and so again very realistic. James Clavell has for his work, well researched, and he understands something of the subject, and because you feel as a reader in good hands. Nevertheless we have to do some compromises. The high number of important people, the book can become confusing . Act The reader must always be highly concentrated and read constantly, especially in order not to lose the thread or the overview. Who is good and who is evil, is (fortunately) most of the time anyway, not entirely clear, since most people play a double game and even have multiple names. This makes the book exciting and atmospheric, although the incessant distrust of all the characters the reader with time makes it quite brittle, which contributes well to the mood, even if you could have a break now and then you want a quiet, friendly scene.
but tension is mainly due to the many Cliff Hanger, the James Clavell is like the end of each scene. Self if one of the issues surrounding economic and financial nature not particularly interested in a Continuous captures the action but enough to the book to do not put it down, even if the reading of The same may well be quite tiring sometimes. That James Clavell also wrote screenplays, one notices at Noble House very clear. Elle Long dialogues on various policies and procedures, the label because, redundant, formal Smalltalk are the ones who puff the book is so unnecessary. The action is supported almost entirely by dialogue. Only here and there an explanatory Absätzchen is pushed between. This makes the book while alive, but the story remains so much the surface. Feelings are deepened any further, but treated fairly sterile. Anyone who is nervous, tends constantly to excessive perspiration, and whoever does not trust his opponent, he strictly followed, who is a mean dog smiles with his mouth but not with the eyes. These are phrases that are repeated ad nauseam, what the reading experience as time blurs quite a bit. Basically, several storylines are told in parallel, which occasionally overlap and thus trigger new events. Thus, the weapons were smuggled on the plane to Hong Kong by Lincoln Bartlett, first seemingly unrelated to the act of stock market crash to do and also to the communist spies and secret agents who have long since infiltrated everything, still lacks a suitable connection (which, unfortunately, never made enough so that this subplot seems a bit unnecessary, as if they had only woven to the reader with more tension to keep them happy). Why was Dunross' consultant kidnapped and by whom? Anyone in possession of the stolen coins, which in its function so incredibly valuable? What have the Triads that? What is the intention has actually Bartlett? And how much has Dunross' opponent Gornt his finger in the game? is gradually revealed in an intelligent way a response to the other-but only to raise new questions. The reader is always just enough to follow a scene can be, but so little to still groping in the dark. Moreover, all the cards on a bombastic finale sharpen, so then it will not give unfortunately. As it is already used by James Clavell, Noble House also extend to the most exciting place with an outrageous anti-climax, by the description of a natural disaster on the entire plot structure to collapse. The natural disaster caused by natural selection regulates the struggle for power and money, almost automatically, although even this scene is exciting to the end. This anti-climax that seems as if James had Clavell do not feel like its history and therefore had to end up with a disaster quickly everything, it has the author made a little too easy, especially since so will some storylines certainly come to nothing, just like the story of the spies. What also still disruptive, the superficial and cliché-laden character drawing some of the most important figures. Ian Dunross's almost a superman. Who wants to slick, wealthy, successful and highly intelligent, his emotions always under absolute control, and the bargain and have mastered several languages (including several Chinese dialects) fluently and almost without an accent, can no longer simply a particularly sympathetic be. Since Noble House in the 60's, also plays the roles of women is disgusting are clearly older than the perfect, minor wives, prostitutes or lover. Only Lincoln Bartlett's business partner Casey is sketched a little wider, but comes about in terms of platitudes tough career woman who goes into a man's world but half of her feminine weakness based, not addition. Noble House is therefore definitely a man's book for men about men. The objective, seasoned style of writing here does nicely.
Yet white tie to
Noble House
and female readers, just James Clavell because it goes so masterfully to build tension and the reader can mean dog over long distances in the dark. Although Hong Kong as a 60s backdrop is not too well come off and also to the Chinese (and in part to Russian, British / Scottish, Japanese, Portuguese and Americans) left hardly a good word, is
Noble House well for all Hong Kong enthusiasts interesting. Although like clichés and the odd length deter and harass the right-deprecating attitude toward the Chinese and Russians, but Noble House total worth a recommendation. Although
believe the topic and the volume of the ham to make one, that it is hierbei um große Literatur handelt, so ist
Noble House
doch nur ein Sensationsroman geworden, der mit hohem Niveau den Leser fordert, ihm sogar noch ein wenig beibringt und gleichzeitig unterhält. Wenn leider auch mit einigen Abstrichen.
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