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are wuxia novels actually good?

more broadly, is there any literature that captures action, war, and fighting more effectively than a visual medium?

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>>17652928
>more broadly, is there any literature that captures action, war, and fighting more effectively than a visual medium?
The biggest weakness of literature is anything having to do with precise actions. Trying to describe it is both tedious and not very productive on top of that. This is where it loses out to film, but can much better approximate film's strength of gratifying action through the use of illustrations. However, because it doesn't need to always have an image in use and time is not really a factor, it can extendedly narrate things like ideas much better than film could, because film must always have something happening on screen and it is severely limited for time to devote to waxing philosophical.

>TL;DR
Books sacrifice action and imagery and ease of consumption for exposition. Film sacrifices exposition for action and imagery and passive receptivity.

Film is dynamic. Text and images are static. Graphics only mitigate and slightly compensate for textual inferiority in depicting action, not solve it (the problem of mere imagery on the other hand is better resolved).

It is an inherent handicap to the medium that there is absolutely nothing that a pure writer can do to alleviate.

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>>17652928
probably on par with pulp literature of the past and made worse if read in another language as I hear Chinese does not translate well.