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a fiction rather than a biography
This is a fiction rather than a biography which it pretends to be. I managed to read the first 10 chapters hoping this book might provide a new perspective on Mao's life. However, this book turned out to be a completely biased joke. It seems to me what happened was the authors decided Mao was a devil and then started collecting or more accurately distorting the fact to fit the view. In these ten chapters I have read, most of the critical claims cannot be substantiated and most of "facts" either cannot be verified or can be interpreted in a completely different way. This book certainly should be read as a conspiracy book or a pure fiction.
August 2005 · Books