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Just finished "Shogun" by James Clavell (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Kreg@lemmy.ca to c/books@lemmy.ml

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Wow, what a great adventure! If you haven't heard of it, it's about an English sea captain who gets marooned in Japan around 1600, and has to adapt to Japanese culture. Lots of politicking, romance, and decapitation. Very loosely based on real people too.

Have you read it? What did you think?

As a sidenote I just found out FX is releasing a miniseries based on it next year!

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Clavell" not "Channel", but I get your meaning!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clavell

I was a kid when Shogun came out in 1975 and it was HUGE. Everyone was reading it, then they turned it into a mini-series and it got even bigger!

[–] Kreg@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Being able to edit post titles is wonderful QOL, take that Reddit!