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Any of you autists actually read them? Thoughts?

>> No.19220663 [DELETED] 

>>19220647
If I wanted to learn how to make a boiled dog sandwich, I'd watch a video about it

>> No.19220689

>>19220663
Fucking lmao

>> No.19220696

I plan on reading Three Kingdoms next year. It will easily be the longest book I’ve ever read.

>> No.19220698

I've read ROTK (Moss Roberts translation, unabridged) and loved it. If you like long ass epics with a shit load of characters, like The Bible, Silmarillion, War and Peace, you'll like this

>> No.19220717

Read and liked all of them except Red Chamber.

>> No.19220750

>>19220717
What was up with it?

>> No.19220761

>>19220750
He hasn't read it.

>> No.19220769

>>19220750
There were way too many metaphors for me, annoying drama like suicides and shit. Not enough action like the ROTK,JTTW and OOTM.

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>There were way too many metaphors for me, annoying drama like suicides and shit. Not enough action like the ROTK,JTTW and OOTM.

>> No.19220844

>>19220663
Holy shit, this is SUCH a racist thing to say. Why aren't the mods banning this? Why are they letting this chud-ass chumpfuckery slide?

>> No.19220851

>>19220663
Based.

>> No.19220917 [DELETED] 

>>19220844
In a few decades you'll be having your throat torn out by a Chinese soldier. Cuck hands typed this post.

>> No.19221250

>>19220663
fpbp

>> No.19221319

>>19220844
There is a part in Romance where Cao Cao unknowingly eats his hosts wife, whom his host had killed and butchered after running out of meat. When Cao Cao finds out he starts to cry, not out of any kind of sadness or mortification for the dead women, but out of joy that his host is such an exemplar of Confucian manners.

>> No.19221352

>>19221319
Might give it a read now

>> No.19222127

>>19221319
That was Liu Bei, Sh*nigger.

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19222183

>tfw asked the same thing a couple weeks ago and got assblasted

>> No.19222185

>>19220844
0/10

>> No.19222546

>>19220769
which of the three should I read first?

>> No.19222599

>>19221319
>>19222127
Yes it was Liu Pei. Tsao Tsao rewards the husband with 100 pieces of silver. In my edition the first editors note in 200 pages was some fag saying "wife eating BAD!!!!" after this scene lmao

>> No.19224260

>>19222546
JTTW if you like fantasy. ROTK if you like war stories and political intrigue etc. OOTM if you like stuff like Robin Hood and Three Musketeers

>> No.19224414

>>19222183
lmao faggot

>> No.19224417

>>19220647
Those are examples of quantity not quality

>> No.19224446

>>19220698
How do you get this online

>> No.19224534

>>19224446
https://libgen.is/fiction/3EA220B70278834E3B68198C65FC4E81

>> No.19224795

>>19220647
I read the entirety of ROTK, unabridged, when I was 13. Enjoyed it. Haven't read the other three. I was a weird kid.

The wife eating scene has, admittedly, stuck with me ever since.

>> No.19224887

>>19221319
extremely based

>> No.19225074

>>19220647
all four of them. they all suck

>> No.19225091

Gonna recommend Göran Malmqvists translations to my fellow sweniggers. They're beyond based

>> No.19225675

I dropped journey to the west because it just seemed to list shit non stop. I enjoyed the old Japanese show (monkey) but the book, man it's not fun.

>> No.19225693

>>19220647
I read Journey to the West. It's fun