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Indlæser... Sønner (1933)af Pearl S. BUCK
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. The sequel to The God Earth, this book follows the lives of the three sons of Wang Lung, one q landlord, one a merchant and one a war lord, It relates how each son abandons the land that Wang Lung held dear and then how each, in turn, is disappointed by their own sons. This book is written in a really irritating style – almost like Buck was trying to make her narrative sound like a person speaking stilted English. Predictable and not very interesting. I don't know what else to say here besides things happened to people and I wanted to take a nap. Also for those who download this via Kindle, never fear, book #2 is not as long as you think. I got to 60 percent and book #2 was done. The remaining 40 percent was a preview (a really long one) of the final third book in this series. I really wish I had DNFed this book. I am going to start reclaiming my time and just kicking a book immediately after I am not feeling it. I honestly have not wanted to read a thing since some of the books on my currently reading list have not moved me at all. Hoping that I get in a better mindset later and can just finish some more books soon. "Sons" the second book in the House of Earth series follows the sons of Wang Lung, called Wang Lung the Landlord, Wang Lung the Merchant and Wang the Tiger. The book focuses mostly on Wang the Tiger with Buck popping up now and again into the eldest and second's son's businesses with some minor appearances by Pearl Blossom. I didn't get a good grasp on any character in this second book. Unlike with the first book, the women in this one are paper thin instead of being realized as their own characters. Wang the Tiger's first wife may have been interesting to follow, but Buck quickly dispatches with her with the quickness. This second book is like night and day from the first book. All of the characters were underdeveloped and the writing was not good. I would say that this book is 100 percent filler since I think that Buck wants to focus on what happens to this family in book #3. I also wish that Buck had stuck a time period in this series since I can't tell where we are in China's history. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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The second installment in Pearl S. Buck's acclaimed Good Earth trilogy: the powerful story of three brothers whose greed will bring their family to the brink of ruinSons begins where The Good Earth ended: Revolution is sweeping through China. Wang Lung is on his deathbed in the house of his fathers, and his three sons stand ready to inherit his hard-won estate. One son has taken the family's wealth for granted and become a landlord; another is a thriving merchant and moneylender; the youngest, an ambitious general, is destined to be a leader in the country. Through all his life's changes, Wang did not anticipate that each son would hunger to sell his beloved land for maximum profit.At once a tribute to early Chinese fiction, a saga of family dissension, and a depiction of the clashes between old and new, Sons is a vivid and compelling masterwork of fiction.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author's estate. No library descriptions found. |
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This book focuses on the three sons of Wang Lung and their greed for money, which pushes them to sell off most of their inheritance their father has left them.
The oldest, Wang the Landlord, despised anything to do with the land. He considered himself scholarly, and was about living an extravagant lifestyle to uphold the family's wealthy image, and money slipped easily through his hands. He had a couple of wives and frequented the gambling and prostitute salon, and drank and ate heartily. He sold most of his inheritance, the land that his father left him. He became fat and lazy and raised lazy sons who expected things to be given to them.
The middle son, Wang the Merchant, was a hard worker from an early age and very frugal with his money, but, he preferred more of an entrepreneurial lifestyle over farming. So, his main income came from other merchants who rented his buildings, and from a few prime farmland leases that he purchased from his brother. He saved his money and his family lived within their means so that when hard-times hit, he was pretty much depended on by the family. He had one wife. His boys worked in the granary business like their father. But, only because they were obedient sons, they worked. They looked forward to the day he passed so they could sell the business and live their own dreams off at least some of the riches they know the family has.
The youngest, Wang the Tiger, despised the land so much that he ran away at an early age and became a soldier. He sold all of his share for the silver to build up his own army and became a lord of wars, conquering provinces up north and running out the gangs of robber thieves. He was a hard man, but a fair man. He was not connected emotionally to people because of his single focus drive...to rule over his own large province in Northern China. He always mocked his older brother's sons for being such weak, pathetic human-beings. But, then he finally had a son of his own. He gave his son everything he, himself, had ever wanted as a child, but didn't have. The son didn't want any of it. All he ever wanted was the earthen house and farmland of his grandfather, and to become a farmer. But, Wang the Tiger, wouldn't allow it and sent him off down south to be trained for war. He was trained alright. He joined the south Revolutionaries, who had ongoing wars with the north, against his father's regime.
"Sons" focused more on the youngest son, Wang the Tiger, and his ongoing wars and conquering provinces for his rule. After a while, it did get a bit monotonous, but she still added enough interest to keep me going and want to continue reading through to the last book of the trilogy.
And now, begins "A House Divided" of The Good Earth Trilogy Book 3.... ( )