Loved it, ancient Japan as seen through the eyes of Europeans, with a love story and affair. Clavell is a historical fiction writer, as to Asian culture, like Louis L'Amour is to Western writing. Shogun is the Japanese chapter of a multi part series that Clavell did and like Tolkien, concludes ea...
Клавел наистина има добри попадения изледвайки живота в един лагер на военнопленници по време на втората световна война. Жаждата за живот и омразата към високопоставените изяжда душите на всички. Благодарение на приспособилият се към живота в лагера Цар и сечащият му като бръснач ум преживяват и ...
4 ½ stars. The first 90% is fascinating. The last 5% not well done - just a summary. The ending was sad.Historical fiction based on actual leaders in 1600 Japan. I loved the thinking, planning, and strategising within the heads of many different characters. For example Yabu is alone with an ...
As a teacher, this book reminds you that young children can 'hang' on to every word and idea a teacher supports. It reminded me of an incident in my elementary classroom few years ago. I can't remember the specific topic of discussion, but one of the students said, "I like how you present inform...
Ding-dong the witch is dead!. 6 months and 1400 pages later, I have finally finished this massive door stopper of a novel, and the best I can say about it is that its better than Gai-jin, the massive tome about Struan's in 1870s Japan which also took me most of a year to get through. I've been re...
Gai-Jin (meaning 'outside person', or 'foreigner' in Japanese) is based on an actual 1862 event, known as the Namamugi Incident, in which a British national was killed, and two others wounded, by samurai on the Tokaido highway near Kanagawa for not showing the proper respect for passing Satsuma d...
What can I say about ‘Tai-Pan’? Is it really a Historical novel? Is it a Alternative History? These are the two questions I keep asking myself while working my way through the late James Clavell’s Asian saga, which for your consideration are the following:‘Shogun’ (1600)‘Tai-Pan’ (1841)‘Gai-Jin’ ...
Peter Marlowe yacía en su litera medio dormido. ¿Soñaba?, se preguntó repentinamente despierto. Luego sus cautelosos dedos tocaron el pequeño pedazo de trapo que contenía el condensador y supo que no era un sueño. Ewart se retorció en la litera superior y gimió despierto. —Mahlu la noche —dijo mi...
dell’Aqua said patiently. “Do you want an overt act of war against a friendly nation?” “Of course not.” Everyone in the great cabin knew that they were all in the same trap. Any overt act put them squarely with Toranaga against Ishido, which they should absolutely avoid in case Ishido was the eve...
lochart pulled the window closed. the door opened. lochart got up. "salaam, kalandar." "salaam. strangers have been seen in the forests nearby. the terrorists must be back so i have come to protect you." nitchak khan's eyes were hard. "as god wants, but i would regret it if there were more deat...
. .'" he said, giving the first part of the password.From the other side of the door there was a sibilance of steel leaving a scabbard and the reply, "'. . . there lived a wise man called Enraku-ji . . .'""'. . . who wrote the thirty-first sutra.' I have urgent dispatches for Lord Toranaga."The ...
