Musashi

A breathtaking fictionalization of the life of one of the world's greatest warriors and renaissance men. Yoshikawa takes us on a mezmorizing voyage to a crossroads in Japanese history that changed all the rules and gave birth to a legend. The book opens in the year 1600 at the end of the infamous b

4.8 top 5 fiction book for me—simple but in a good way, easy and fun read

This is a quick and easy read despite its length. The prose is straightforward and there's plenty of action. Unfortunately, to me it feels as though the characters are mostly two-dimensional (at best), and the plot is sort of repetitive in places which resulted in tedious bits. And I never really emo Leggi tutto

wow...that is the first thing that came to mind when i finished this book. it is easily the best historical fiction i have ever read. it is also the largest and most difficult book i have ever read. it is very japanese therefore some of the names and places tend to get mixed up in the nearly 1000 pa Leggi tutto

4,5 stara

God, he's so good. In my list of knights without fear and reproach, which every girl creates by stringing a garland of book and film characters on a virtual thread (even if she has not been a girl for a long time, and the heroes are not quite knights): Ivanhoe. Robin Hood, Alan from "Kidnapped", de

Having finished this, it feels like I've been on an epic journey. It was an intimidatingly long book, but after six months or so I'm finally done. This novel tells the story of Japan's most famous samurai, Musashi Miyamoto, his best friend Matahatchi, his love interest Otsu and the many many other ch Leggi tutto