Arrrghhhh...I've run out of books! Quick, Batman, to the library!
Any suggestions? Remember I can't buy normal books here in English. My choices are limited to popular novels which a friend or family member might have.
My choice now is between Game of Thrones (haven't seen the show), Mongrel (a Khans life story) or Noble House. Recommendations?
Actually, you can go to the major library or the major bookstores in the major cities (wow, lots of major's there) in China and find some English language books.
When I was working in Shanghai, a Dutch girl showed me the bookstore in Shanghai that they had, massive place with tons of books, Chinese and English. Was unable to find one that I could pick up and read because I wanted to save the money for other things (Drinks and travelling) and also, I am exceedingly picky about books at my age. Strangely.
However, I eventually went to another bookstore (I forgot where the first big bookstore was) and just browsed around. You do get quite popular books stuff and also more self-help stuff, but there were some good ones there. I ended up picking something about English language (not surprising, however it had some starkly incorrect information in it that made me extremely mad, coming from an American author! note: not American grammar) and some stockbroker stuff.
Was a good thing to pass the time really, but nothing engrossing.
The stockbroker thing (Nicholas Taleb) was a total massive e-peen stuff. Jesus, the whole book was basically about him saying: "I can sell anything and people will lap it up because its all random!". Rubbed me up the wrong way, that did.
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