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I don't think this line is correct: "In light of the facts, Akkarat tries to make peace with Pracha, but Anderson coerces him to carry on with the regime change." Anderson was captured and being tortured while the facts were being ascertained. Once he is released, Anderson is surprised to find that Akkarat has already commenced with the destruction of the Environment Ministry before Anderson can bring his forces to bear.
I've just finished reading this book, and felt obliged to correct some of the more glaring inaccuracies in the synopsis. For example, while Trade Minister Akkarat may have been a general, he was never identified as such. "Somdet Chaopraya" is a title and shouldn't be treated as a name; in fact, after the S.C.'s death, when the White Shirts have been decimated and Akkarat is briefly in ascendance, he is referred to in passing as the new Somdet Chaopraya. MarkVolundNYC ( talk) 16:05, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
The book has been widely praised, but also widely criticized for sexism and for some mistakes in fact (hard to do in a SF book, but apparently Jaidee is an obscure girl's name; using it for a macho male Thai character is about the moral equivalent of naming a male character in a book set in the US "Millicent", the "Thai" phrases in the book are in fact gibberish, etc). One loud voice of dissent is a native Thai SF blogger who has posted some rather vitriolic reviews:
http://requireshate.wordpress.com/tag/paolo-bacigalupi-is-a-turd/
Leaving the tone of the reviews aside, she does point out some mistakes in research. She's certainly not the only one writing critical reviews of the book, but as a native Thai speaker I thought she had standing to critique the use of language.
Her blog is certainly notable, it's in the running for a Hugo for best fan blog site.
Is it usual to include a section on stuff like this in an article on a fiction book? I don't really know.
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I don't think this line is correct: "In light of the facts, Akkarat tries to make peace with Pracha, but Anderson coerces him to carry on with the regime change." Anderson was captured and being tortured while the facts were being ascertained. Once he is released, Anderson is surprised to find that Akkarat has already commenced with the destruction of the Environment Ministry before Anderson can bring his forces to bear.
I've just finished reading this book, and felt obliged to correct some of the more glaring inaccuracies in the synopsis. For example, while Trade Minister Akkarat may have been a general, he was never identified as such. "Somdet Chaopraya" is a title and shouldn't be treated as a name; in fact, after the S.C.'s death, when the White Shirts have been decimated and Akkarat is briefly in ascendance, he is referred to in passing as the new Somdet Chaopraya. MarkVolundNYC ( talk) 16:05, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
The book has been widely praised, but also widely criticized for sexism and for some mistakes in fact (hard to do in a SF book, but apparently Jaidee is an obscure girl's name; using it for a macho male Thai character is about the moral equivalent of naming a male character in a book set in the US "Millicent", the "Thai" phrases in the book are in fact gibberish, etc). One loud voice of dissent is a native Thai SF blogger who has posted some rather vitriolic reviews:
http://requireshate.wordpress.com/tag/paolo-bacigalupi-is-a-turd/
Leaving the tone of the reviews aside, she does point out some mistakes in research. She's certainly not the only one writing critical reviews of the book, but as a native Thai speaker I thought she had standing to critique the use of language.
Her blog is certainly notable, it's in the running for a Hugo for best fan blog site.
Is it usual to include a section on stuff like this in an article on a fiction book? I don't really know.
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