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Wow. This book lives up to the hype. It is wonderful. Hughart takes the reader to a place and time that never truly was, but is wonderful and real. The book is wonderful, its brillant, its Chaucerian.
Bridge of Birds has an controling quest, but it is told in three parts, each part forming part of the quest. While the story is told in fable form, the two central characters are never protrayed as simply types. Number Ten Ox is far deeper than he first seems, than even he himselfs think he is, and ...more
Bridge of Birds has an controling quest, but it is told in three parts, each part forming part of the quest. While the story is told in fable form, the two central characters are never protrayed as simply types. Number Ten Ox is far deeper than he first seems, than even he himselfs think he is, and ...more
I gave this book much more time and consideration than I usually give books that aren’t working for me. Why didn’t it work for me? Well, I never connected with Master Li (“There is a slight flaw in my character,” he says to everyone he meets) and Number Ten Ox. The book is their struggles to get the ginseng that will cure the children of Number Ten Ox’ s village. I didn’t care about their hero’s journey; I wanted to, I just didn’t.
Everybody loves this book. Maybe it's me, my mood, so that's why ...more
Everybody loves this book. Maybe it's me, my mood, so that's why ...more
Reading for Into The Forest, I'm immediately engaged. This is a clever fantasy woven around a series of Chinese folk tales and although the whimsy got too much for me in the middle, it has a terribly sweet ending. I wish I believed in the power of the Queen of ginseng and I love Master Li Kao, even with the slight flaw in his character.
Surprisingly good for a first novel.
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Surprisingly good for a first novel.
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My name is Gaijinmama, and to quote my favorite character in this book, there is a slight flaw in my character.
4 stars because it was an absolutely delightful journey, clearly written by an author who loved this story, characters, and the culture that influenced their creation. Also, one of the characters wants to be reincarnated as a three-toed sloth. I am deeply enamored with sloths.
Minus one star for misogyny and cultural appropriation, which were viewed very differently in 1984 when the book ...more
4 stars because it was an absolutely delightful journey, clearly written by an author who loved this story, characters, and the culture that influenced their creation. Also, one of the characters wants to be reincarnated as a three-toed sloth. I am deeply enamored with sloths.
Minus one star for misogyny and cultural appropriation, which were viewed very differently in 1984 when the book ...more
Read this! Imagine Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon meets Drunken Master. Quirky. Surreal. Philosophical. Funny. Different and a great read. I definitely will revisit this gem.
Absolutely stellar -- Master Li and Number Ten Ox are great fun, and the many smaller mysteries that are solved on the way to the big one are beautifully crafted and engrossing. How can you not love a book that includes things like this?
“....Master Li turned bright red while he scorched the air with the Sixty Sequential Sacrileges with which he had won the all-China Freestyle Blasphemy Competition in Hangchow three years in a row.”
“....Master Li turned bright red while he scorched the air with the Sixty Sequential Sacrileges with which he had won the all-China Freestyle Blasphemy Competition in Hangchow three years in a row.”
Note for future re-reading: inspired by "Cowherd and Weaver Girl"
Originally read March 2010.
I wasn't nearly as enamored with this book as I was when I first read it - some of the humor seemed a bit too forced and sterotypical to me this time around. But I have a shaky relationship with "funny" books even at the best of times and my mood can really affect my enjoyment of books like this. ...more
Originally read March 2010.
I wasn't nearly as enamored with this book as I was when I first read it - some of the humor seemed a bit too forced and sterotypical to me this time around. But I have a shaky relationship with "funny" books even at the best of times and my mood can really affect my enjoyment of books like this. ...more
Just arrived yesterday, and can't wait to read it. But now I don't know whether to put it in no.1 position of my To Read shelf, or just save the best for last...
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This book just kept falling over itself trying to get to the next good bit. Awesome fun to read. :)
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