Sometimes i flatter myself that this is a talent, and although it is admittedly one of a minor nature, it is perhaps also the sole talent i possess. The humor is pretty dark and recalls catch 22 but toward the final third of the book, the humor dissip...  Read More

Viet thanh nguyen's novel seamlessly weaves together tragedy and humor. Despite the dark story and subject matter, nguyen includes plenty of humor and satire. Nguyen shares his humorous side with the character of nguyen viet.

Viet nhanh nguyen’s the sympathizer is a brilliant espionage novel. The novel is a powerful indictment of war in general and of the vietnam war in particular. Like mother night, nguyen's book is about the blurred lines between what we claim to be and ...  Read More

Captain * a vietnamese-american newsman to persuade the general that the journalist, not the captain, is a secret communist sympathizer in their american exile. Treatment of women manages to be both self-righteous and woke while also objectifying, deh...  Read More

Starts out somewhat interesting, but then wades deep into a swamp which * the life out of your desire to read on. I got bogged down in the ponderous prose. Toward the end of the book, it becomes apparent why the book is so wordy, but by then it’s too ...  Read More

Author's writing skills are below that of the average sixth grader. Writer often goes off on tangents that do not push the plot forward. Most of the authors complaints are contrived.

Xlnt" ends up to be an unreadable syntactical nightmare. Where is the mystery of language?