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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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.