false 390711 22 1486259 1981 Noble House total:1745|5:505|4:703|3:443|2:81|1:13| 1745 6841 2130 72 390711 0440164842 9780440164845 1602 58 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191872510m/390711.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390711.Noble_House 5 2 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Wed Jul 04 12:03:55 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 04 12:08:39 -0700 2007
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....more...]]> 390711 0440164842 9780440164845 1602 58 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191872510m/390711.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390711.Noble_House 5 1 false Sat Nov 15 22:07:02 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 15 22:08:24 -0800 2008 390711 0440164842 9780440164845 1602 58 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191872510m/390711.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390711.Noble_House 5 0 false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 10:13:10 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 11:36:57 -0800 2009
Ian Dunross is the current tai-pan of Noble house, the trading company originally started by Dirk Struan, a charismatic and ruthless businessman. Though the Noble House has controlled trade in Hong Kong for ...more...]]> 2853924 0385287372 9780385287371 13 2 3.92 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2853924.Noble_House 4 0 false Sat Jan 10 18:16:08 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 18:16:08 -0800 2009
This view of mine is based on how Clavell relates the contemporaneous social and political views of the time in his works. Was ...more...]]> 6260783 0385343264 9780385343268 7 4 3.92 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6260783.Noble_House 4 0 false Thu Jun 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Feb 27 06:10:57 -0800 2009 Fri Jun 19 15:46:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6260783 0385343264 9780385343268 7 4 3.92 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6260783.Noble_House 4 0 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1992 Wed Sep 09 19:46:20 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 23:47:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 390711 0440164842 9780440164845 1602 58 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191872510m/390711.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390711.Noble_House 5 1 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1984 Thu Dec 11 09:57:24 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 10:03:47 -0800 2008
I ...more...]]> 2853924 0385287372 9780385287371 13 2 3.92 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2853924.Noble_House 5 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1989 Thu Sep 03 12:39:24 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 12:46:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 390711 0440164842 9780440164845 1602 58 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191872510m/390711.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390711.Noble_House 5 0 false Mon Jan 05 08:33:06 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 08:33:06 -0800 2009 390711 0440164842 9780440164845 1602 58 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191872510m/390711.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390711.Noble_House 4 0 false Fri Apr 10 16:30:08 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 21 13:07:34 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 10 16:30:08 -0700 2009 I can't decide how much I like it.
Scary how closely parts resemble today's banking crisis.
I quite identified with the Linc Bartlett character.
Really the book's a gigantic soap opera with tons of male chauvinists
but the ladies get face in the e...more...]]> 390711 0440164842 9780440164845 1602 58 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191872510m/390711.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390711.Noble_House 4 0 false Sun Mar 02 18:52:51 -0800 2008 Tue Apr 01 18:16:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 390711 0440164842 9780440164845 1602 58 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191872510m/390711.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390711.Noble_House 5 0 false Sun Sep 21 19:08:02 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 18 07:49:50 -0700 2008 2
The story is basically there are two main houses in Hong Kong that do business. Both are for...more...]]> 390711 0440164842 9780440164845 1602 58 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191872510m/390711.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390711.Noble_House 2 0 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1988 Sat Apr 25 23:25:25 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 23:26:43 -0700 2009 Shogun, but I gave up after the fiftieth page or so. I probably need to revisit it.]]> 390711 0440164842 9780440164845 1602 58 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191872510m/390711.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390711.Noble_House 5 0 false Tue Feb 19 22:12:47 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 20 00:07:35 -0800 2008
It has about 30+ different character story lines and everyone of them is interesting and it's amazing how Clavell ties each one to...more...]]> 390711 0440164842 9780440164845 1602 58 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191872510m/390711.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390711.Noble_House 4 0 false Tue Sep 22 10:25:54 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 10:26:50 -0700 2009 390711 0440164842 9780440164845 1602 58 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191872510m/390711.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390711.Noble_House 0 0 false Thu Jul 02 12:41:06 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 12:41:37 -0700 2009 390711 0440164842 9780440164845 1602 58 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191872510m/390711.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390711.Noble_House 0 0 false Wed Feb 04 06:48:47 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 06:49:59 -0800 2009 390711 0440164842 9780440164845 1602 58 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191872510m/390711.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390711.Noble_House 0 0 false Thu Jul 09 07:55:21 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 07:57:39 -0700 2009 390711 0440164842 9780440164845 1602 58 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191872510m/390711.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390711.Noble_House 5 0 false Mon Dec 08 08:09:22 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 08:10:12 -0800 2008 390711 0440164842 9780440164845 1602 58 3.92 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191872510m/390711.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/390711.Noble_House 3 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 24 20:40:23 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 24 20:46:44 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6522240