It’s the next best thing after 汉语风。 I find it hard to believe that this book is meant for students with only 100 hours of instruction, but it had a good level of new vocabulary and an interesting story as far as graded readers go. Just wish it didn’t have pinyin in line with the 汉字, and where’s the audio CD?
Lots of 汉字 typos. Covers material also in other Cheng and Tsui books, has lots of useless vocabulary and not much actual text. No CD. All in all, there are a lot of better alternatives out there.
This was useful as an introduction to 部首. The most helpful part was explanations of部首旁 with their associated radicals. But a book that is simply a list of radicals should definitely have all 200+ and not skip the last 70!
It’s too bad there’s only one book at the 750 word level. 汉语风 is definitely the best graded reader series out there, and it is especially critical between the 1000-2000 word stage. This story was interesting and a quick read.
比较没有意思但是，我很喜欢中文风
Suggested reading for Iraq familiarization for working at the U.S. Embassy. Interesting, but I quickly realized it had nothing to do with my job in Baghdad so didn’t finish it. Too bad.
Let me summarize the book: Arabs were against the holocaust, but hated and hate zionism. That’s it. This book goes into excruciating detail about the different Arab groups that were against the holocaust and don’t like zionism, but didn’t seem to offer much more on the broader issue, and only skirts the issues of holocaust deniers at the very end.
Yes I read this book - don’t judge me. OK judge me. I read it 6 months ago and I’m really having a hard time remembering anything interesting or worthwhile. Guy tries to hide superpowers, fails, fights bad people, has high school problems. It’s like anamorphs but worse.
Vali Nasr is America’s resident ‘Shia expert’ and in no small part due to this book.
This book definitely has a target audience - somebody who hasn’t read anything about theoretical physics, doesn’t want to think about it too hard, but at least wants to know what everybody is talking about when they say quantum mechanics, big bang, or general relativity. I was not a part of this audience. I’ve read a few pop-science books before, The Elegant Universe about 7 years ago, and From Eternity to Here a few months ago. I enjoyed Eternity to Here much more; it went in to better detail about the mechanics of the questions that the author was trying to answer. A Brief History of Time covers nearly all the same subjects, but in a more general and useless fashion. ...