Este aspecto me recuerda a 'The left hand of darkness'. Los personajes evolucionan, mas notorio es el protagonista, pero los demas por el contacto con el tambien. Hace que los personajes puedan planear y calcular movimientos que sus rivales haran, pero estos saben eso por tanto pueden plantear otro plan basado en como contrarestaran, etc.Įn el libro te metes en la cabeza de al menos 10 personas distintas, cada una tiene sus planes sobre planes y a veces entran en conflictos, otras en alianzas con los demas personajes La lealtad de los subordinados, el espionaje generalizado, lo formal de los ritos, etc.

Planes sobre planes sobre planes sobre planes. ( )Īlgo totalmente inesperado, un libro escrito por un extranjero sobre la epoca medieval de Japon? No tenia buena pinta pero. The Catholic church on the other hand gets some well deserved beating for raping boys, colonialism, holy wars, moral backwardness, torture and basically everything bad that has ever happened. wait, what? All in all, clearly the author is incredibly enamoured with Japan to the point of coming across as a bit of fanboy. I commend him for including all the foul language, gore, defecation, farting, dildos, anal beads. I'm finding it hard to believe people kept committing suicide at the drop of a hat but hey, who's gonna disentangle history from legend on that one? Every actions and every event is there to illustrate these. Ostensibly it's for the benefit of the hero but it's pretty transparent. Most of the time it seems the plot is only a pretence for the author to write about ancient Japanese history and customs and draw comparisons between eastern and western values and religions (some of which is surely a bit too anachronistic). At that point I knew it's going to be a fun book to read. The initial clash and mutual incomprehension was dragging on a bit but when trying to find a woman for the hero to sleep with (him not really into it at that moment) one of the samurai suggests maybe he'd like to fuck a duck. The style is terrible but it's a hard job to write in such a way as to convey the foreignness of the language without making it sound silly. I've been putting it off for ages because people keep badmouthing this book but I think it's unfair.

Shōgun by james clavell