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Fiction of a Different Sort

Monday, June 9, 2008


I have a new favourite novel. And believe it or not, it's a chinese novel.

Oh, of course, I couldn't read it in chinese. But wuxiapedia has kindly aided me in bridging that gap.

Wuxiapedia is certainly far better than wikipedia in my eyes. After all, it is always better to be immersed than to skirt the surface of things and to glean nothing from them at all.

I had never heard of 古龙 before chancing upon wuxiapedia, and I am certain that wikipedia does not lie in saying that his works were not always of high quality. But for the emotional involvement I now have with these new characters, and the sound, insightful statements into the human mind, 多情剑客无情剑 will certainly be my favourite novel for some time to come.

posted by Jared
6:45 PM

2 Comments:

Blogger aFLY said...

I can't even get through 5 pages of Doraemon comic in Chinese without losing the gist.

June 12, 2008 at 10:40 AM  
Blogger Jared said...

it'll probably be the same for me.

haha.

June 14, 2008 at 6:00 PM  

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