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Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

James Clavell

Start date: July 1, 2025

Finish date: December 31, 2025

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Dec 11, 2018 Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, read-the-world, read-the-world-2018-2020, historical-fiction, favorites, asian

I read that James Clavell wrote this book after reading one sentence in his daughter's history textbook. That sentence said that an English mariner traveled to Japan and became a Shogun. That one sentence so intrigued him that he wrote a book that was initially more than 2,000 pages! And even though this audio book was close to 54 hours, I would have listened to many, many more pages / hours! The story was so good that I kept earbuds in, listening, for hours on end. I ignored my household chores ...more

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Dec 18, 2014 Canavan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

✭✭✭✭½

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Aug 04, 2022 Karen rated it really liked it

Shelves: travel-2022, 2022-chunky-book-challenge

I started this book years ago, but never finished it. I had forgotten so much of what I did read, so I am really glad I was motivated to read it and finish it.

One of my favorite scenes was the Tea Ceremony.

It's a story of adventure, of a foreigner, John Blackthorne, aka Anjin-san (or pilot) along with his Dutch crew is lost at sea and finds himself in seventeen century Nippon.
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