Fu-Manchu: The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu, with eBook (Audiobook)

from ElizabethChapman

The Return of Fu Manchu was to my surprise, pure pulp fiction. That would be a marvelous find, or a terrible disappointment, depending on your taste. The horribly evil and utterly brilliant Fu Manchu is out to conquer the world and gain dominion for the corrupt, sinister, inscrutable Chinese. The...

from ElizabethChapman

The Return of Fu Manchu was to my surprise, pure pulp fiction. That would be a marvelous find, or a terrible disappointment, depending on your taste. The horribly evil and utterly brilliant Fu Manchu is out to conquer the world and gain dominion for the corrupt, sinister, inscrutable Chinese. The...

from m_k_m

Read more out of academic interest than in expectation of enjoyment, which is just as well. The racism is obviously horrible, but it's not even as if Sax Rohmer's prejudice is an unfortunate trait of an otherwise good writer (in the strictly craftsman sense of the term); that would be a poor excu...

from antiquary

M brother rather despised Nayland Smith and preferred Fu Manchu, who was, at least on occasion, more honorable than his enemies. On the whole, I tend to prefer some of Rohmer's other stories to the Fu mancu books, but there is no denying that Dr. Fu is as ,much a classic contribution to pulp lite...