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!

  • 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.

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      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.