I like to ask this question every few months.
Currently reading Life of Pi by Yang Martel. Saw the movie a few months ago and wanted to read the book. The one I just finished was called Black Ice by Michael Connelly. It’s one of the Bosch books.
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I found an unabridged version, Sanquozhi Yanyi something. I read the abridged version years ago after playing some of the strategy games based on the warring states period.
Before that I read Monster Hunter Inc 1 and 2 by Larry Correia.
I just added Romance of the Three Kingdoms to my reading list. Looks interesting.
I absolutely love Larry Correia. Have you read any of his other stuff? The Forgotten Warrior is epic fantasy set in a world with a caste system like the hindus. Then there are The Grimnoir Chronciles, diesel punk with an interesting magical system. Oh and samurai in magical tech armor fighting side by side with a WW1 machingunner/mage/detective/bounty hunter along with a genius little austisic girl from a dairy farm to bring down a pre-WW2 ascendant Japanese Empire and then save the world from an alien menace.
Hes got other scifi, military scifi, and military fiction too.
I first picked him up because Baen publishes him. They publish good scifi. They dont care about politics. That means they mostly end up publishing stuff from people right of center or libertarians. Tor and the rest are completely cucked and won't publish unless you check all the diversity and degeneracy boxes as a person or with your book.
The only other book I'd read of his was: Servants of War. It was like a.. It felt like a grimdark fantasy set in fuedal Slavic motif. Then all of a sudden it's 40k style dreadnaughts fighting hordes of nightmare creatures. I liked it, just took a little bit to get going.
I'll check out Grimnoir Chronicles, that sounds fun.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a strange read, but I enjoy it. There's A LOT of names that sound similar bombarding you. It's written in an epic history / poem style like The Odyssey. The dialogue is dramatic and over the top, but fun. Pretend it was written for some stage 1000 years ago.
If you end up liking it, there's another Chinese epic that got made into games, but hasn't been popular in the West since the 80's-90's. Over here it gets called Bandit Kings of Ancient China or Outlaws of the Marsh, but most places sell it now as The Water Margin or Outlaws of the March. It's ancient Asian style Robin Hood. Wars, feasts, cannibals.
I read Servants of War when it came out. The transition from something that reminded me of The Witcher to 40k was pretty jarring. I enjoyed it and I'm definitely going to read the next one.
I need to read the Deep Six stuff next
I read I Ching a few years back. The names are rough.
I love the Dynasty Warrior games and need to get that strategy game. I think I’d enjoy that book. I need to get some Correa
I read it many years ago when I was on a huge Dynasty Warriors kick. Some of the names are spelled differently but you'll start making sense of it in no time.
The book is definitely interesting. Some parts are a little weird, like the men doing a lot of "hand holding" and "weeping" (it's meant to be dramatic I guess?) and then there are some hardcore parts to it. Was hoping to find a way to spoiler text but I'm not seeing it, so I can't share the one thing that stuck with me.
I think the book has been written and re-written so many times, it reads like it has been on a stage from village to village. The face-palming and hollaring is so over the top. The fights are 'bouts' where they hit each other simultaneously until one guy wins or runs away. There's betrayal, fake out deaths, casual cannibalism. It's super dramatic and epic. I love it. But, you can easily imagine it being on a small stage for a crowd of peasants. Ribbons for blood and entrails, drums and fireworks for the exciting parts.