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A review by notesonbookmarks
Shōgun by James Clavell
4.0
I did it!! 54 audiobooks hours. Do not F with me!
This "epic novel of Japan" centers on captain Blackthorn, an English sailor, Lord Toronaga, a Japanese Lord with big ambitions, and Mariko, the translator. Of course there are also 234577633 other characters in this one, since it's 8 bazillion pages long. Clavell has clearly studied 16th/17th century Japanese culture as this is the first of 5 epic novels in this series. His writing is at times funny, often surprising, and definitely engrossing. I'd like to press this one into my husband's hands, if he were a reader. And then we could completely transfer our vocabulary to samurai speak, as I've done with my friend Mindy, who read this tome with me.
This "epic novel of Japan" centers on captain Blackthorn, an English sailor, Lord Toronaga, a Japanese Lord with big ambitions, and Mariko, the translator. Of course there are also 234577633 other characters in this one, since it's 8 bazillion pages long. Clavell has clearly studied 16th/17th century Japanese culture as this is the first of 5 epic novels in this series. His writing is at times funny, often surprising, and definitely engrossing. I'd like to press this one into my husband's hands, if he were a reader. And then we could completely transfer our vocabulary to samurai speak, as I've done with my friend Mindy, who read this tome with me.