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Tai-pan by James Clavell

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By Leli

The first third of Clavell’s second book in the Asian Saga is slow to get moving and full of characters and places and lingo and it’s all kind of hard to care, but he earned my attention with Shogun so I stuck with it and I’m really glad I did, because the second two thirds really use all that exposition and tell a fascinating tale. 

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