Customer Reviews

The Deer and the Cauldron: The Third Book

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First off, I understand some fans of wuxia fiction have some problems with Minford's translations. Fair enough, there are some slips, but the readibility of this series is excellent - I would not be afraid to hand these books off to someone interested in the genre. Minford has rendered the sometimes terse Chinese into a flowing english that would hook just about anyone.

The books are printed with very high quality, but unfortunately this raises the pricetag quite a bit. Collecting the entire trilogy is going to cost over $100, for books that will in all likelyhood be read once. These books are really crying out for a nice softcover treatment that could place it in a lot more hands!

This volume nicely ties together all of the entertaining threads that have been laid out over the course of the previous two books, which is impressive if only because books two and three are compressed from books two, three, four, and five of the Chinese original. The manic pace of the first two books slows down a bit here, but it's a satisfying conclusion. A must read if you've read the first two.

My husband was into Chinese Wu-Xia. I bought this set, and he loved it! Since he got the books, he went everywhere with the book and finished the whole thing in a week. Great story, great translation.

never quite get the essence of jing jong. Free translations on the web are much better