Reviews for Chinese Medicinal Plants from the Pen T'Sao Kang Mu

The average rating for Chinese Medicinal Plants from the Pen T'Sao Kang Mu based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-05-23 00:00:00 Michelle Soltis It’s hardly necessary to say that The Dedalus Book of German Decadence: Voices from the Abyss is fabulous. All the Dedalus anthologies are fabulous. And as always, lot of authors I’d never heard of, and now I’m going to be desperately searching or more of their work. Although I do have an awful sinking feeling that finding English translations is going to be somewhat difficult. I’ve already looked for an English translation of Alraune by Hanns Heinz Ewers (extracts from which appear in the anthology), and there don’t appear to be any available. Paul Leppin’s work is available however, and I’ve already sent off an order for The Road to Darkness. The extract from his novel Blaugast was enough to convince me I needed to do this. Stanislaus Przybyszewski’s Androgyne was another story that impressed me quite a bit. I hadn’t really thought of Thomas Mann as a decadent, but his short story The Blood of the Wälsungs is really quite outrageously decadent, and rather wonderful.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-06-22 00:00:00 Templar Thomas The writers and material collected in this anthology should make it a 5-star book, except that almost all of it consists of excerpts from longer works rather than well-chosen stories. Book extracts are a waste of everybody's time, and the fact that each piece is not identified as being such in the blurb, on the contents page, in the introduction or even at the start of each piece is dishonest. You only learn what is an extract at the end of each selection. A wasted opportunity.