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[quote=Anonymous]The French part of book 2 was slow for me, but it got better. I'm 3/4 of the way through book 3 and really loved the first half of it. References to a character as "the Jew" or "the Chinaman" or "the Chinese" (referring to one individual) are really grating. I get that this may be historically appropriate, but still. Beyond that, some of the descriptions of the Chinese man, Willoughby, seem downright racist. The story is being told by Claire, who at that point has a 1968 orientation (so 20+ years after events of the first books). I guess in 1968, they might have been socially acceptable, but it seems to unnecessary. For example, the way she refers to the traditional clothes he wears would be something like, "I saw the Chinese, wearing his usual blue pajamas, speaking excitedly to the tavern keeper." [/quote]
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