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Shogun novel review5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Lastly, is it fun? Is it a well written, enjoyable story? I'm not looking for a hardcore, all-facts-based-on-reliable-sources kind of book, I just enjoy a good story. How easy is it to read? I've been tackling classics, like Mockingbird, Fahrenheit, 1984, Brave New World(← this one may have been the "hardest" for me), and a few Gaiman books(stricly in English) with relative ease, but this one has 1150 pages, which seems daunting for a guy that just recently got into reading. ![]() Is it a series? What's up with the Asian Saga: Chronological Order #1 part?ĭo you get cool trivia in a historically accurate way? Is it a novel? As in, is it a fictitious story, with a plausible plot and setting? An early book review in the New York Times Book Review, by Webster Schott, began 'I can't remember when a novel has seized my mind' like Shgun. Thus I was wondering if any of you had any input ( without spoilers) about this book.(I'm not good with literature related words, since I'm not native and school made me despise works of literature). etc) and I came accross, on goodreads, this title with a rather high number of ratings 130 000. ![]() Don’t be intimidated by its size: it reads so fast that you will be unable to put it down. Recently, I started getting into feudal japan (Total War games, Seven Samurai film, Fanarts, facts. Clavell: Shogun Book review - YouTube An indisputable masterpiece of a novel, a psychological, action packed chess game with an underlying emanation of immense harmony An indisputable. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a good adventure novel and to all those who would like to find out cultural facts about feudal Japan without having to wade through history texts. ![]()
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