
Reborn: The Mechanic's 1988
重生:机械师的1988
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 939k Words
- Genre
- Urban
- Subgenre
- Urban Everyday
- Updated
- 4y ago
- English
- Request a translation
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The Funniest Novel Ever, Complete!
The kind of novel that’ll make you laugh yourself to death! Must be complete!
Finished Masterpieces with Satisfying Endings
Fellow Daoists, I failed to break through the 5,000th cultivation bottleneck. Please recommend a book or two to help me on my path. I would be deeply grateful. Boundless Heavenly Venerable.
Looking for Novels About Manufacturing and Industry.
Start a factory, make cars and phones, build chips, and develop technology. Novels about taking the industrial route
Looking for Period-Era Stories. No Siheyuan Settings, and They Must Be Male-Oriented
Returning to the 1980s to Advance Factory Technology
Stories With a Scientist Protagonist Studying Military Technology, Without an Outlandish Start
Tech Novels About Someone Advancing Technology Alone With a Golden Finger
No pretentious face-slapping stories, and nothing involving the state. With technology stories, the moment the state gets involved, everyone suddenly loses their intelligence. So I want stories that don’t involve the state.
Novels About All Kinds of Heavy Industrial Machinery
A novel about returning to 1980s Hong Kong, starting a machinery factory, and building all kinds of heavy infrastructure equipment
Period Novels About Working on the Railways
Building Up Technology Right After the Founding of the Nation
Completed! Recommend Great Completed Books Rated 9.7 or Higher
Read carefully: completed novels only, and they must be rated above 9.7. No padding the list with mediocre books.
Rebirth of an Unmatched Powerhouse
Are there any stories where an immensely powerful expert is reborn in a mother's womb and starts cultivating and laying the groundwork before birth? I want over 2,000 chapters.
The Protagonist Is a Gunsmith or Mechanic
I'm Out of Books and Want to Read Some Rebirth Novels
I'd like to read books similar to They Call Me Professor Jiang on Campus, but What Do They Call Me Off Campus? (Where the Deep Sea Meets the Whale).
Any Stories Where Someone Has a Whole Bunch of Nuclear Warheads in Douluo?
Show Me the Best Urban Farming or Political Intrigue Novel You've Read
@Pig'sIdeal @SimpleFish @Though @LiangZhoumu
Everyday Romance About Ordinary People, with No System or Cultivation
November’s Almost Here. Any New Courtyard House Novels?
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Technology of a Great Nation: Back to 1976 to Build for the Future
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I Came Home to Start a Business: I'm a Pioneer in Technology
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The author has created a protagonist who is compassionate, responsible, patriotic, and brimming with positive energy. Our times need patriotic scientists like Qian Xuesen and Deng Jiaxian to return to China and revitalize Chinese science and technology, so that we are not subject to foreign control!
Gratitude and kindness are fine traditions of our nation. The entire book is filled with inspiring positive energy! Especially the understanding and description of our motherland is something other online novels lack! Thank you, author! This is a great book!
It's well-written, but there are a lot of villains. They start with underhanded tactics, which feels a bit strange. The protagonist could have let the opponents compete fairly in business first, and only resort to other methods if they couldn't beat the protagonist. Always using methods that uncover conspiracies to defeat opponents feels a bit unfair.
It's very well written, I really enjoyed reading it, and I followed it from beginning to end. It's just that the updates are a bit infrequent.
This novel is very well written, quite close to real life, and unfolds gradually with continuous excitement, making it impossible to put down once you start reading.
Having read up to chapter 83, perhaps I'm too familiar with that era; despite the editor's efforts, it didn't quite resonate with me. Such a review is unfair to the author, but it's the truth, and I hope it doesn't mislead anyone. Thank you for your hard work, author! August 15, 2025
I found it okay after reading it. Overall, it's a lighthearted novel with a period setting. The writing is decent, but there are many flaws. For example, it says that Hao Zong's illness is the same as Forrest Gump's illness in the early days of reform and opening up. Is Forrest Gump set in 1994 or 1995? Also, the part about the antiquities in Paris is not very realistic! Five stars!
In short, the plot is a bit short. However, the overall style and structure are reasonable and rigorous, much better than the previous book, which, while also technical, was too exaggerated and unrealistic. But looking at the table of contents, it's clear it's too short; I hope the author will improve.
It's a novel with positive values and a passionate spirit, but as a historical fiction, it lacks sufficient understanding of the era, and as a mechanical fiction, it lacks basic knowledge of mechanics. Therefore, those familiar with the era and mechanics will find it difficult to read, easily losing immersion and finding it bland. This book is more suitable for young readers.
Good books are always only a little bit written! Keep it up, update faster!