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!

  • sailing_bookdragon
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    11 months ago

    Oh yeah absolutely enjoyed that book, and wished I read more of the Asia saga by James Clavell to know how it fits in that even bigger story. Cause I really enjoyed the sort of chess game that was the plot (and reminded me of the best Epic fantasies in that way)

    And no I did not know there was another adaptation of this story coming our way. Did see the previous miniseries from Paramount on blue-ray. With John Rhys-Davies (the actor who played Gimli in LOTR) as Rodrigues as an absolute highlight.

    • Kreg@lemmy.caOP
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      11 months ago

      So I knew about the Asia saga before I finished the book, and because I didn’t really look into it I assumed it was a continuation of the story… Man was I bummed when I learned each were practically self contained stories. I wanted to read about Blackthorne building ships and sailing to England!!

      Still might have to give them a try, I heard that Tai-Pai is also really good.

      • sailing_bookdragon
        1·
        11 months ago

        nope not all series, have continued stories. That is also why I wanted to read the rest over time, to get how it fits in the overall story of the series.