Björn recenserade Beijing doll av Chunshu
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I went back to Guodong. He always listened to me when I whined about how sad and lost I felt.
Good for him. So why did you have to inflict it on the rest of us?
The hype tries to sell Beijing Doll as a novel so controversial that it got banned by the Chinese government - exactly what "banned" means in this context isn't mentioned. I picked it up hoping for some insight into what it means to be a teenager in China today, but in the end, all it accomplishes is to demonstrate that self-obsessed 15-year-olds who think quoting Kurt Cobain in their diary makes them deep are alike all over the world.
I know a lot of people hate dark, pessimistic texts like this one, where you write about yourself as if it were someone else. If you can't stand it any longer you can stop reading …
I went back to Guodong. He always listened to me when I whined about how sad and lost I felt.
Good for him. So why did you have to inflict it on the rest of us?
The hype tries to sell Beijing Doll as a novel so controversial that it got banned by the Chinese government - exactly what "banned" means in this context isn't mentioned. I picked it up hoping for some insight into what it means to be a teenager in China today, but in the end, all it accomplishes is to demonstrate that self-obsessed 15-year-olds who think quoting Kurt Cobain in their diary makes them deep are alike all over the world.
I know a lot of people hate dark, pessimistic texts like this one, where you write about yourself as if it were someone else. If you can't stand it any longer you can stop reading here, I won't make you continue.
Why, thank you for your permission.