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A friend recommended I try The Legend of the Condor Heroes by Jin Yong about a year ago and, although it is not a genre I have ever considered before, I didn't have anything else to listen to on a couple road trips this week and it was immediately available from the library.
Wow, I'm glad I he recommended it and I actually listened.
This is a wuxia novel, a Chinese genre based on martial arts and adventure, think of the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and you have a decent idea of what this could be. The first volume of this is A Hero Born, the first of 4 parts translated from the original serial novel.
After listening to it, I tried to read some on my Kindle directly and am very glad I listened to the audiobook instead. I doubt I would have made it past the first chapter if I was reading it; I don't have a good grasp of how to pronounce many of the names which would have caused me endless frustration.
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