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product_id: 164286819
title: "Last Tang Standing"
brand: "lauren ho"
price: "5160 kr"
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reviews_count: 9
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# Last Tang Standing

**Brand:** lauren ho
**Price:** 5160 kr
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- **What is this?** Last Tang Standing by lauren ho
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Last Tang Standing

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## Customer Reviews

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    A sharp satire of Asian culture that’s both funny and scorching
  

*by D***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 20, 2022*

33-year-old Andrea is a successful lawyer striving to make partner. She also has a nice condo and rich friends, but life isn’t perfect for her: She works too much, sleeps too little, and feels the crushing family pressure to find a man to marry so she isn’t the last single Tang of her generation.Last Tang Standing was so entertaining that I had a hard time putting it down. Lauren Ho has written a sharp satire of Asian culture that’s both funny and scorching. This book explores the massive pressure to succeed along narrow definitions, the expectation to yield to familial demands, and the guilt that is inherent in Asian children who feel forever indebted to their parents/grandparents/various family members for the sacrifices they have made. Furthermore, Lauren Ho was able to take the raw subject of complex family dynamics within the Malaysian-Chinese culture and turn them into laughable moments.Sure the characters are flawed, spoiled, materialistic, and dramatic. They are also likable and multi-dimensional. I really enjoyed Andrea and Linda: Their closeness, messiness, no-bullshit approach to friendship, and their individual growth. I cheered for them, I hoped for better for them, even when they spiraled and made some not-so-great decisions. I’m sure many of us have spiraled when feeling exhausted of trying to be good enough for others and for ourselves.The reasons I took a star off are because the pacing was a little off and the ending felt a bit abrupt considering this book was 400+ pages long. I feel like some of the middle could have been shortened to give us more at the end, but that’s just my opinion. I obviously still highly recommend reading Last Tang Standing for a fun book that’s both a lavish ride and a smart look at Chinese-Malaysian cultural expectations.

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    Bridget Jones set in Singapore vibes <3
  

*by N***L on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 27, 2021*

Usually I hate those X meets Y-type blurbs but CRAZY RICH ASIANS meets BRIDGET JONES is pretty on the mark for LAST TANG STANDING. LTS is about Andrea Tang, a lawyer who's gunning for partner and basically has it all made... except for a boyfriend. Painfully single and well into her 30s, she's officially the last woman in her family to be in a long-term relationship and man is she feeling the family pressure.First, I want to say that even though I liked this book, at both 6% and 7% in I appeared to be missing a page. In the breaks, the next "page" started mid-sentence, so I was clearly missing text. That was annoying because this is a traditionally published book and it is not an ARC, so you expect a certain level of quality from books of this nature.Moving on from Formatting 101, let's talk about the book itself. I really liked the fact that the heroine is an older millennial with a career. As fun as college stories are (and they are fun), I am an older millennial with A Career and I occasionally like reading about people like me. I also like that the heroine had relationships with several different men over the course of the novel while trying to figure herself out. Even though there's a lot of people who are like "THE HEROINE AND HERO MUST BE EACH OTHER'S ONE AND ONLY" I'm okay with them not being that way, necessarily, as long as it feels organic and isn't done for cheating drama (I HATE pointless cheating drama, FYI).There's a large cast of characters, many of them tastelessly (or tastefully) rich. And this book is set in Singapore, so that's probably where the CRAZY RICH ASIANS comparison comes in. It's also written in epistolary journal format, like BRIDGET JONES, and like Bridget, the heroine is unlucky in love and very insecure and has some habits she would like to break but can't (in her case, it's drinking instead of smoking). Some reviewers thought the heroine was too bitter and cynical but her personality is actually a lot like mine (bitter, cynical, hard-working and ambitious), so I actually really related to her sense of humor. If you like that sort of acerbic writing style, you probably will, too.I do agree with the nay-sayers that the book went on for a bit too long but I loved the love interest (he was the BEST) and the journey actually caused me some hardcore nerves as the will they/won't they vibes increased, so even though the execution was a little shaky, I still ended up liking this a lot.Just fix the formatting, PLEASE.3.5 out of 5 stars

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    At first I hated the main character
  

*by P***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 8, 2022*

Within the first few chapters, I was laughing constantly at the dry wit and sarcasm. But all of a sudden, the main character's viscious competitive nature, constant drunkenness, and stupid life choices made her dry wit and sarcasm fall flat. I started to hate her. I felt like I was reading a book about a soulless, shallow, mean-girl who didn't even bother to hide her extreme racism. But I kept reading and started to realize I wasn't being treated to a up-close and personal view of a mean girl, I was just seeing a very realistic and well-written character. She was writing in her diary about the way SHE saw herself, which was flaws-first. Throughout the book she did very kind things for people and showed impressive loyalty to family/friends but didn't dwell on those positive aspects of herself because she was SUPER hard on herself. So, I realized that despite her outward successes her inner turmoil made her an underdog and I started to root for her. Lauren Ho is a master when it comes to presenting readers with realistic main characters.

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