Uest for power and a beautiful interpreter torn between two ways of life and two ways of love The principal figures are John Blackthorne whose dream it is to be the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe to wrest control of the trade between Japan and China from Portuguese and to return home a man of wealth and position; Toranaga the most powerful feudal lord in Japan who strives and schemes to seize ultimate power by becoming Shogun—the Supreme Military Dictator—and to unite the warring s.
shōgun kindle Shōgun PDFUest for power and a beautiful interpreter torn between two ways of life and two ways of love The principal figures are John Blackthorne whose dream it is to be the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe to wrest control of the trade between Japan and China from Portuguese and to return home a man of wealth and position; Toranaga the most powerful feudal lord in Japan who strives and schemes to seize ultimate power by becoming Shogun—the Supreme Military Dictator—and to unite the warring s.
Kindle James Clavell Ó Ó Shōgun eBook ô shōgun kindle, Shōgun PDFSo sorry I am not worthy of the honor of reviewing this novel If however my Lord insists it then I shall endeavor to offer up some humble thoughts regarding its mighty even epic narrative Neh? The scope is so vast the characters and settings are so many the head is liable to spin at times so sorry But the arc it follows is like a peregrine's path through the sky long but fast and with vicious twists along what
Kindle James Clavell Ó Ó Shōgun eBook ô shōgun kindle, Shōgun PDFJapanese people tell me that it's all nonsense samurai were not in fact ready to commit seppuku at the slightest provocation They had a strong sense of honor but were also interested in staying alive Well fancy that Though I'm embarrassed to admit that I believed it when I read the book I wish a Japanese author would return the
Kindle James Clavell Ó Ó Shōgun eBook ô shōgun kindle, Shōgun PDFAs a picture of Japanese history it suffers from what another reviewer hilariously called I paraphrase here our round eyed western mythologized POVWhich okay—it was written in the 70's after allBut as a story? OMFG what a fucking storyI fell into this book as a teenager and didn't come back out until I'd read 600000 words and had a conversational grasp of transliterated JapaneseThree days Three days of blissI dare you to read this and not—at the earliest opportunity—call someone a gaijin in pitying tonesbows stiffly
Kindle James Clavell Ó Ó Shōgun eBook ô shōgun kindle, Shōgun PDFI have had this book for uite some time in my collection probably over five years in fact and it wasn't until recently I picked it up due to a good friend here on GoodReads who prized it as a favourite book Strangely I'd say that I have no real interest in Japan despite having read Memoirs of a Geisha and Tales of the Otori both which are set in Japan or Japanese based I think Shogun has brought me out of the closet in that respect and I'm very interested now in reading fiction set in Japan and perhaps also some non fiction I can see the appeal for many people who become obsessed with this side of the world I thought it was a beautifully written book though at the beginning I thought perhaps the necessary explanations of Japanese things to be a bit hea
Kindle James Clavell Ó Ó Shōgun eBook ô shōgun kindle, Shōgun PDFThe Asian Saga the bestselling novel of feudal JapanOh my What an awesome book Alhamdulillah I would massively recommend anyone who likes to read historical fiction or samurai books to read this book Insha'Allah I find it very fascinating to see and learn about the culture of Japanese in the bookJames Clavell was one of the great authorsMy favourite characters are John Blackthorne and Lord Toranaga'Shogun' is one of my favourite books I love this book so much AlhamdulillahI would like to read James Clavell's books Insha'AllahJames Clavell the son of a Royal Navy family was educated in Portsmouth before as a young artillery officer he was captured by the Japanese at the Fall of Singapore He spent the rest of World War II in the infamous Changi that his bestselling novel 'King Rat' was base
Kindle James Clavell Ó Ó Shōgun eBook ô shōgun kindle, Shōgun PDFYes I read 1152 pages of a book I liked less and less as the pages went by I could have given this 3 stars maybe but I was so unsatisfied with it all that I can't do itIt isn't even that it was unreadable considering its size it was a fast read even though I had to use some special motivational tricks in the end when I just wanted to get it over with The main problem was that there wasn't a single character I really liked and god I hate Blackthorne from the bottom of my very soul It's been a while since a fictional character irritated me as much as he did I should have known when one of the first things we learn about him was that he has a huge cock Ah I don't know I'm being a bit unfair maybe but really I think apar
Kindle James Clavell Ó Ó Shōgun eBook ô shōgun kindle, Shōgun PDFThis is The OneMy favourite book of all time The one that transported me far away and long ago The one that made our world cease to exist The one that I read every spare minute of every day even in elevators; a half page now a
Kindle James Clavell Ó Ó Shōgun eBook ô shōgun kindle, Shōgun PDFThis is the Clavell novel that most people have read which is too bad because in many ways it is not his bestWhich is not to say it's not very good it is It's amazing It's well just ask anyone who's read it you'll not find someone who didn't like it But the historical anthropology of the book isn't as well integrated into the narrative as it is in say Whirlwind or Noble House That being said this is a remarkable work it is perhaps the most sweeping of Clavell's epics in that it covers greater distance and time than his other books do And despite the fact that the
Kindle James Clavell Ó Ó Shōgun eBook ô shōgun kindle, Shōgun PDFBack in 1980 there was a TV miniseries about this book starring Richard Chamberlain I was a kid but recalled watching it and enjoying watching the samurai with their katanas and the alien culture described Clavell’s book wa
Kindle James Clavell Ó Ó Shōgun eBook ô shōgun kindle, Shōgun PDFI'll sum up my review here in the combined edition It's than 1200 pages long and it's not long enough This book can be described with only one word amazing The first page sucks you in and keep you in the edge till the end You never know what will happen next and what awaits in the next corner Shogun showed me a new side of the world it changed my views on many things and made me understand just as many things I had one page till the end and I had no idea what will happen the end was something I didn't expect but in the same time perfect And i wanted to read and and The writing style is amazing You can feel the waves smell the salty waters feel the emotions I felt myself smiling in places where in other books I would be crying This will be a book I will be rereading many many times and I know I will love it with every rereading and I will be learning something new And the story will stay with me forever And I will be going to be