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Decided to finally dive into The Journey to the West... I'm familiar with the story as I've read Waley's abridged translation (Monkey) and seen a few TV adaptations but after playing Jade Empire I thought it's time to explore the full text of the classic. 

Volume I coming up... Three more in the queue. 

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9 minutes ago, nudge said:

Decided to finally dive into The Journey to the West... I'm familiar with the story as I've read Waley's abridged translation (Monkey) and seen a few TV adaptations but after playing Jade Empire I thought it's time to explore the full text of the classic. 

Volume I coming up... Three more in the queue. 

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Wow - I read that when I was living in China. Along with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, and Red Chamber. Not easy reads, but I found them very fascinating. 

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5 minutes ago, Eco said:

Wow - I read that when I was living in China. Along with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, and Red Chamber. Not easy reads, but I found them very fascinating. 

All four great classics? :o Nice... I've read Romance of the Three Kingdoms and while I appreciate it and its complexity, it's too heavy with battles and political scheming for me to properly enjoy it. Journey to the West always fascinated me due to mythology & eastern philosophies, allegories, humour and adventurous nature of the story. It was also the last movie (TV adaptation of the novel) I watched together with my Grandma before she passed away and we loved it so it already has a very special place in my heart. 

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32 minutes ago, nudge said:

All four great classics? :o Nice... I've read Romance of the Three Kingdoms and while I appreciate it and its complexity, it's too heavy with battles and political scheming for me to properly enjoy it. Journey to the West always fascinated me due to mythology & eastern philosophies, allegories, humour and adventurous nature of the story. It was also the last movie (TV adaptation of the novel) I watched together with my Grandma before she passed away and we loved it so it already has a very special place in my heart. 

I loved Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and while I was in China, I bought the entire set of the series on DVD. Granted, I never finished watching them, but it's a pretty extensive series from the 90's, and is about 21 DVD's. 

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10 minutes ago, Eco said:

I loved Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and while I was in China, I bought the entire set of the series on DVD. Granted, I never finished watching them, but it's a pretty extensive series from the 90's, and is about 21 DVD's. 

Just counted and there are actually 28 DVD's. 

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Lee Child's - Jack Reacher, book number 11 in his series 'Bad Luck and Trouble' ( 2007), read this a few years back when I was working, thought I would give it another read and as per normal all of the Reacher character books are a brilliant read and worth reading over and over again. :coffee:

 

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When someone makes a small anonymous deposit into Reacher's bank account, it triggers his fixation for math and his investigative instincts. Reacher deduces that the deposit is a signal only the eight former members of his elite team of army investigators would use. Obsessed with math like Reacher, Frances Neagley locates him because of the brutal death of one of their own. 

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The plot centres on the legal and moral problems involved in Native American gaming. The (fictional) Tappacola Nation, a small Native American tribe located in the northern part of Florida, starts a casino in their reservation, giving the tribe members an unprecedented economic affluence and a measure of compensation for their sufferings during the centuries of European settlement, but also opening wide the potential for corruption and involvement with organized crime, up to and including outright murder.

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Got this as a Christmas present from our son, started reading it last night.

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Jack Reacher is a former military cop, trained to notice things. He’s on a Greyhound bus, watching an elderly man sleeping in his seat, with a fat envelope of cash hanging out of his pocket. Another passenger is watching too… obviously hoping to get rich quick.

When the mugger finally makes his move, Reacher rides to the rescue. The old man is grateful, yet he turns down Reacher’s offer to help him home. He’s vulnerable, scared, and clearly in big, big trouble.

Elsewhere in the city, two ruthless rival criminal gangs, one Albanian, the other Ukrainian, are competing for control. Do they have a life-and-death hold on the old guy? Will Reacher sit back and let bad things happen? Or can he twist the situation to everyone’s benefit?

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Inside a little-known and seldom visited psychiatric facility, Parrish Island, the government stores former intelligence employees whose psychiatric state make them a danger to their own government; people whose ramblings might endanger ongoing operations or prove dangerously inconvenient.

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John Grisham - A Painted House

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A Painted House is a 2001 novel by American author John Grisham. It was made into a television film in 2003, starring Scott Glenn and Logan Lerman.

Inspired by his childhood in Arkansas, it is Grisham's first major work outside the legal thriller genre in which he established himself. Set in the late summer and early fall of 1952, its story is told through the eyes of seven-year-old Luke Chandler, the youngest in a family of cotton farmers struggling to harvest their crop and earn enough to settle their debts. The novel portrays the experiences that bring him from a world of innocence into one of harsh reality.

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Just finished this - 

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5/10 - Started off strong, and very intriguing, and then just got rather boring. I'm surprised I even finished as it was more a chore than it should of been. Regardless, it's about a subject I love...

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1 minute ago, Tommy said:

Yup still do, granted I'm still on the early chapters because I am just trying to get back into reading. It's a long term process. :P

Oh I can relate; for me it's mostly lack of time so the reading process is definitely much slower than it used to be. Don't give up though! :P 

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