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 I didn't think that it was so thick Business is war! I didn't think that it was so thick! And a huge bummer for me, taking in account the TV miniseries adaptation, it was that the main characters of Ian Dunross and Casey Tcholok don't have a romance, besides the age difference between literary character, Dunross instead of being a widower, he is happily married and even having children.
Also, there are A LOT of sub-plots that after a while become quite tricky of following. However, it's still a pretty good written work, so I don't see any reason to give it less stars than the maximum possible. A VERY LONG WEEK It's and it's quite amusing that such thick book and so much plots and sub-plots, and all that fits in just one week, in the time of the novel, that since it's carefully indicated on each chapter, you can't deny that it was just one week Full of banking raids, international espionage involving China, Russia and Great Britain, underworld machinations, stock market frenzy, rainstorms, landslides, boats on fire, racing horses, All in just one long week.
Never gets old, never gets tired of mentioning. Smart, resourceful and a gentleman. And Ian Dunross is the current Tai-Pan tenth in the book, twelfth in the TV miniseries and since he needed to make Struan's public on the market, now he's dealing with a risk of losing control of the company. Especially since Struan's, like any successful company, it has an archenemy company which is Rothwell-Gornt, managed by Quillan Gornt, and not only that, since the bitter enmity runs deep back in the past of Ian's and Quillan's families since the days of Tai-Pan novel.
And as if there wasn't enough business struggle set on the battleground Par-Con is supposedly arranging a business deal to save the Noble House of its cash shortness, but Bartlett and Tcholok are doing business too with Rothwell-Gornt, behind Struan's back, but Those favors "turned" into four coins, divided in halves, where one half of each of the four coins were kept under the watch of the Tai-Pan in excercise of Struan's, with a unbreakable promise that when any of the other half-coins would be presented, the handler of the half-coin can ask for Two half-coins were already presented, one is missing, but View all 13 comments.
Jul 04, Mr. Person rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Anyone. 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 In many ways, this is my favorite Clavell novel. 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 novels.
The story focuses on the decendants of the characters in Tai-Pan, while decendants of the characters of Shogun also make appearances. And Peter Marlowe, who is Clavell's stand in for himself from King Rat , runs throughout the novel as a fairly important subplot, as an author who has recently achieved literary success with a novel about Changi, and is now researching a novel about Hong Kong a delightful piece of hyper-fiction, which makes the reader all the more aware that this fictionalized world is based on real people -- the Struans of this world being based on the real life Jardines.
View all 6 comments. 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 , the founding of Hong Kong. This book, Noble House , follows the green-eyed devil's true heir through similar tribulations in Hong Kong over a century later. He's just a business man, yet one of the most influential people on the island who carries a number of cares that would break a lesser man.
The blow by blow accounting of the week fits in an incredible amount of action. There's very little rest for anyone as the perfectly drawn characters maneuver for position. Motivations are wonderfully done. There are no angels, but many sympathetic characters, especially Dunross, a main character that is easy to get behind, but even he isn't perfect.
The only complaint I had was that some of the Oriental characters were a bit two dimensional in some attitudes. Not all of them, but the mass were. It's also sad - people selling their children to feed the rest of the family.
These books are listed in published order here on GR now. That's NOT the chronological order, the order I'd highly suggest reading them in. While all the books share some families, the time difference between these 2 minimizes that.
Skipping Gai-Jin wouldn't hurt. Unlike the rest, it doesn't have a strong central character to root for, so it's rather jarring in that sense. Definitely read this book after Tai-Pan , though. I haven't read the final book of the series, Whirlwind. I know it follows the Noble House, especially some plans that Dunross put into motion, but neither the setting nor the size made me want to read it.
There is no audio version of it that I can find at this time or I'd give it a try, especially if it was read by John Lee. View 2 comments. Nov 26, Michael Nash rated it it was ok. Ding-dong the witch is dead!. 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 Ding-dong the witch is dead!. The plot of this novel moves at a snail's pace for pages, and only picks up after that, at which point you've been reading for months and still have an equivalent of a reasonably sized novel to go. The plot meanders through about 20 sub-plots only half of which get resolved to any satisfaction, and some of which get resolved by deus ex machina in a highly unsatisfactory way.
As always, the magic of Clavell is in bringing a time and place to life, as he brought to life s Japan and s Hong Kong. He does that here as well, but the problem is that s Hong Kong is too familiar to be interesting. I will say there are interesting bits. The politics are fascinating, with the main character arguing emphatically that the US and Britain should help out the PRC on the grounds that they are thorns in the sides of the USSR which is the real threat.
This to the point of selling materials to China to create nuclear weapons and helping the Thread of the Silkworm guy to defect in order to secure the Bank of China's aid during a monetary crisis. The gender politics are a fascinating mix of Randian ideas of self-sufficiency and a kind of parochial British love of the nuclear family. The action is also fascinating, since all of it takes place in scenes of tense negotiation in board rooms and pool halls and race tracks, rather than in any kind of violence.
And I will say that I enjoyed the last pages or so when the pace picked up and stuff started being tied together. But none of that makes up for a plot that is too long and convoluted, and which takes pages to get moving.
Aug 17, Debbie rated it really liked it. The summer of , I worked on a project in Phoenix, AZ. 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 The summer of , I worked on a project in Phoenix, AZ. 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 and read this book until the sun went down.
I loved the book and the escape it gate me from my loneliness that summer!! Oct 08, Andy rated it it was amazing. The follow up to Tai-pan. Clavell famously visited Hong Kong and ingratiated himself with the high society of the island. He based his story around many real events, which he garnered from those very same socialites.
The building that tumbled down the mountain side during inclement weather was owned by my old landlord, Oscar Wong. He used to tell me of the day james Clavell came to interview him about that night. An epic battle between the Jardine's, Swire and the new Chinese Hong's who started to rise in the early seventies. A great read, especially for those that live or have lived in Hong Kong. Dec 11, John rated it it was amazing Shelves: audiobooks , male-authors , hong-kong. I wish it could go on forever.
The audiobook is perfection The Asian Saga: the story of a Hong Kong business dynasty. Mar 24, Walter rated it liked it Shelves: fiction-historical-far-east. This epic saga of a great British mercantile house in Hong Kong in the early s is a page tome whose plot takes place in the space of one week. The action in the novel is intense. In Noble House, you get the feel of a staunchly capitalistic Hong Kong, a place that makes the setting of "The Jungle" look like a worker's paradise!
Clavell's hero, like most of Clavell's heroes, is an alpha male and the absolute monarch of the family business which controls much of Hong Kong's commerce and po This epic saga of a great British mercantile house in Hong Kong in the early s is a page tome whose plot takes place in the space of one week.
Clavell's hero, like most of Clavell's heroes, is an alpha male and the absolute monarch of the family business which controls much of Hong Kong's commerce and power. The problem that I had with Noble House was the tendency of Clavell to minimize his Chinese characters, to glorify the ruthless, and to treat women as tools of the alpha male. This is a common characteristic of Clavell novels, it just happens to be more pronounced in "Noble House".
The novel also had, dare I say it, too much action in it. Within this one week period we read about espionage activities of the Soviets and the Communist Chinese, the machinations of Hong Kong, British and American corporations, horrible catastrophes such as bank failures, floods, earthquakes and riots, and plots involving organized crime. That's a pretty heavy week, even for Hong Kong tycoon family.
It strains credibility, but then again this is a novel and not a history. Novels are meant to be compelling, and one must admit that Clavell knows how to hold the reader's attention. If you are interested in the commercial empires of Hong Kong and the Far East, and you are willing to invest the weeks or more that it will take for you to get through this monster, the I would recommend "Noble House.
Aug 09, Heber rated it it was amazing. A fascinating saga written with tremendous talent. Very interesting page turner and one of the best books I have ever read. A long book as are all my favorites but a very interesting read and one which I highly r A fascinating saga written with tremendous talent.
A long book as are all my favorites but a very interesting read and one which I highly recommend! Since I am reviewing the audible. I have listened to many previous books by John Lee, and I have always enjoyed them. However, I have never listened to a book that allowed John to display his talent as well as this one. Lee did an excellent job at all the different accents, the different personalities and the distinct situations. Feb 23, Ken Langwell rated it it was amazing.
If you haven't read James Clavell's Asian Saga you are depriving yourself of an amazing journey that begins in the 15th century in Japan's feudal Shogunate period, capturing your attention and your imagination with "Shogun," and refuses to let go as you move through the series with Tai Pan, Gai Jin, King Rat, Noble House and finally Whirlwind. Clavell was an incredible story-teller who opens up a world and a culture largely unknown to those of us in the West, and it is a profound loss to the lit If you haven't read James Clavell's Asian Saga you are depriving yourself of an amazing journey that begins in the 15th century in Japan's feudal Shogunate period, capturing your attention and your imagination with "Shogun," and refuses to let go as you move through the series with Tai Pan, Gai Jin, King Rat, Noble House and finally Whirlwind.
Clavell was an incredible story-teller who opens up a world and a culture largely unknown to those of us in the West, and it is a profound loss to the literary world that he passed away before he was able to finish the entire saga. However, don't let that scare you away as I promise you won't be left wanting.
I recognize that this review is supposed to be specific to Nobel House, but every book in the series is a high five-stars, so dive in with Shogun and lose yourself in one of the most amazing stories ever told. Just like the one below this text. I had the chance to see Lisa as the sales keynote speaker at a conference where I first learned of her work and immediately bought and read this book. To lead with noble purpose, you must choose a more personal and intimate approach by divulging your personal back story and making your motivations transparent.
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