robinie’s Reviews > Mao: The Unknown Story > Status Update

... what a monster.

I want this book to end already. It's interesting and informative but just like the Hitler biography, it's also exhausting me. And I keep asking myself why the hell I tend to pick up books which talk about politics half of the time when I am not really into politics at all. I want to get a glimpse of the person behind the "political face" and not read about strategy, alliances etc.

I wonder why the authors don't have anything positive to share about Mao. He was a very bad person - no doubt about that - but that does not necessarily mean that everything he said and did had to be evil. But that's exactly how he is portrayed in this book. It's hard to believe that there is no person in this world that has anything positive to say about him. Hence, I am wondering how accurate his portrayal is.

So far, I feel like all I am reading about in this book is killing, torturing, mistreating people, scheming, betraying, manipulating and framing people. All the bad stuff. There is no positivity at all.

So much violence and misery ...

This feels like a second Hitler biography.

I am only 20+ into the book but Mao is already starting to remind me of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.