Its another one of those white man goes to backward country and becomes a God stories.
Tintin in Congo is utterly racist, condescending and plain degrading. But it is nonetheless damn funny and entertaining — which is all that matters.
Like a boss, indeed.
The speaking style does somewhat remind me of some of my bunk mates — with phrases like “fuck he” >< It is quite hard to find a chinese (or maybe even burmese) linguistic equivalent of him and her, instead of he and she.
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MORE IMPORTANTLY, merry christmas everyone. If piracy is like stealing a car (except that the car is somehow still there…right), then sharing soft copies of tintin would still count as giving presents!!!! And I used to say that one of the reasons I want to make a lot of money is so that I can afford to buy the entire tintin series. For now, I have already re-read the three that I have read before as a child — which happen to be the first three of the series.
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December 25, 2011 at 8:14 pm
Lucas
Just so you’re aware, I bought the whole series. It cost me about SGD 120.