![]() ![]() Kwan is not a terrible writer, if entertainment is all you hope to get out of your reading material he does have a flair for a witty turn of phrase, on occasion, and the paper-thin shallow characters are so forgettable you could gladly put it down and put the book out of your mind in an instant if you needed to focus your attention on something else, like real life. If you really want mindless reading, you can’t go wrong with Crazy Rich Asians. At its heart, Crazy Rich Asians is a sentimental novel, and it holds the elites up as an example. As spicily adventurous and lusciously satisfying as the renowned Singaporean street food Kevin Kwans characters argue over hot and sizzling, like the. ![]() ![]() What the novel lacks, however, is any sort of interiority or contradiction, or any attempt to wrestle with the implications of class society and the tensions between the rich and, well, the rest. The blurbs set the framework for how this book should be read: It’s both fun and excessive.but it’s also meant to be a commentary on this society, apparently, judging by the comparisons to Wharton, or Waugh, or Austen. Kwan, obviously having too good a time writing the book, went on for over 500 pages and one had to trudge wearily along. ![]()
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