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Originally Posted by dreams
I'm about 2/3 the way through part 1 and found I am viewing it like a family saga or soap opera. It reminds me of when I was reading James Clavell's Shōgun or Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits. You get to know the characters and the life in that time period. You have to keep that in mind and try to see it from that point. I have a feeling it is one that may require more than one reading to fully appreciate the writing.
I will admit that I am both reading and listening to this. I listen while commuting or doing house or yard work and read when it is quiet. I find listening easier to be in the story right now.
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Yes. I share this. I read it the first time when I was very young, in my early teens. What did I know about ... but still it left signs in me.
Shōgun is a very fine saga. Nicely written also. I reread it a few times, but its genre has been inflation-ed, both by books and by films. It would not be so vivid now.
AK has an incomparable depth, and the prose ... One can open it at random and be captured in the story again and again.
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Originally Posted by zespectre
Oooh....there is a book I've been meaning to read for a long time.
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Just do it. You'll be fascinated, and if you know little about Japan, so much the better.