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Originally Posted by skinmaan
They made Shogun into a mini-series but it is a single book, the same as "Roots" or "North and South." (At 53 hours, do you blame them?) There is a series, and some of those were also made into mini-series back in the day. I believe "Noble House" and "Tai-Pei" were made into mini-series (I remember Pierce Brosnan, back before Bond, was in the latter), though there are 7 books in the series.
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Yep, I remember that Shogun was a book first, now. It wasn't written as a TV series from the beginning, like Ken Burns'
Civil War (the reason that I think of that particular series is that I noticed that it has been 25 years since it was first televised. Can you believe it?). I remember seeing the cover of the Shogun book at a place or two. Seems like James Michener may have written it? One of those high-profile, verbose authors, anyway. Genuine thanks for the correction/clarification.