Another excellent book in the Asian Saga series. This one takes place over several weeks in 1963. Two major Hong Kong companies (Noble House is one) are battling for supremacy in the business world of Hong Kong, which is now separated from mainland China. An American company, PAC-COM, wants to partner with one of them. Noble House is still controlled by descendants of Dirk Struan, who established Noble House in 1841. There is a lot of action in this 1100+ page book and it is as excellent as the ...

Ένα ακόμη αριστούργημα του Clavell τοποθετημένο στην Ανατολή.Στο Χονγκ Κονγκ του 1963, οι μπίζνες είναι πόλεμος, οι οικογένειες θεσμός, ο Τάι Παν απόλυτος άρχων με πήλινα πόδια και η επιτυχία ή η καταστροφή ζήτημα "τζος". Ο ψυχρός πόλεμος κινείται στις παρυφές της επιχειρηματικής δραστηριότητας, το χρηματιστήριο ανεβοκατεβαίνει και κατολισθήσεις και πλημμύρες παρασύρουν τα πάντα και παίρνουν πλούσιους και φτωχούς στο διάβα τους.Σε ένα καλοδουλεμένο βιβλίο τεράστιας έκτασης που δε χάνει όμως πουθ...

As an author of historical novels, I understand the difficulties of creating a complex story and making sure the reader can follow it through its twists and turns. I therefore admire the incredible skill Clavell uses to plot this 1200 page story. He is a master. I have perhaps an hour more reading to finish.

Finished ... a nice ending and a setup for a sequel which I don't think Clavell ever wrote.

I gorged my famished literary appetite on this one in the spring of 1982. My Mom had recently passed away, and I had been treated for my resultant depression with electromagnetic brain stimulation. It had worked miraculously.I started to read voraciously. This first choice of books may sound strange to my GR friends, but that was just ME that year. It was a year marred by the market-slavery of Reaganomics, but back then I just didn’t care.Cause I played Freddy Mercury to the rabid Me Generation ...

Business is war! This is the fourth novel of the "Asian Saga" by James Clavell. TV MINISERIES V. NOVEL: DAWN OF HONG KONG I loved the TV miniseries adaptation of Noble House, starring Pierce Brosnan, Deborah Raffin, John Rhys-Davies and Ben Masters. In fact, I can say that it's my favorite TV miniseries. I have it on DVD and crossing fingers that they'd release it on bluray anytime soon.So, it was logical that I'd want to read the original novel......boy! I didn't think that it was so thick...

I wish it could go on forever. The audiobook is perfection :-)

Another fantastic part of Clavell's Asian Saga, this continues the story of the Noble House, created by Dirk Struan in Tai-Pan & continued in Gai-Jin. It is set in Hong Kong & takes place over a week or so in 1963. There are a LOT of words for such a short time period. It's not as tight a story as Tai-Pan, but similar in many other respects.Tai-Pan took place in 1841, the founding of Hong Kong. It follows the trials & tribulations of Dirk Struan. This book, Noble House, follows the g...

Ding-dong the witch is dead!. 6 months and 1400 pages later, I have finally finished this massive door stopper of a novel, and the best I can say about it is that its better than Gai-jin, the massive tome about Struan's in 1870s Japan which also took me most of a year to get through. I've been reading a book of Clavell's Asian Saga per year since college, a privileged position on my reading list accorded to him because I so enjoyed Shogun, Tai-pan and King Rat.The plot of this novel moves at a s...

The summer of 1990, I worked on a project in Phoenix, AZ. For 6 or 8 weeks, I flew every Sunday afternoon from Dallas to Phoenix and flew home Friday night. I was the only project team member in Phoenix, and my personality is not the kind to go out exploring on my own. So a summer of plane flights and evenings alone were the perfect time to read this book. I had a wonderful hotel room with a balcony facing northwest and almost every evening I would return to the hotel and sit out on the balcony ...

In many ways, this is my favorite Clavell novel. I'm kind of a big sucker for it. It's a huge, vastly sweeping epic contained entirely within a single week in Hong Kong. It's a blockbuster of a novel in every sense, bringing equal amounts of entertainment and intellectual provocation. There's something else going on in this novel which gives it added joy for those who have devoured the rest of the Asian saga -- in Noble House, Clavell begins to tie together the characters from all his other nove...