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I made it 76% of the way through James Clavell's Shogun before DNFing. Clavell made the stranger-in-a-strange-land trope come across as dated, fetishistic orientalism. I know that if I had read it when I was younger, I'd have enjoyed it. It was around the time that I was reading the umpteenth instance of Blackthorne moping about all of the Japanese women he has to sleep with (and how one of them is ugly, oh woe is he!) that I deleted it and found something else to read.
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