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'My bet for the most satisfyingly popular novel of the year . . . It has power, it has violence, subtlety and lots, lots more . . . Clavell never puts a foot wrong . . . Get it, read it, you'll enjoy it mightily' (Daily Mirror )
'SHOGUN is a huge exotic, blood-stained canvas of sixteenth century but still medieval Japan, rival warlords and proselytising Jesuits, geishas, seppuku, samurai with the death-with and a shipwrecked Elizabethan' (Guardian )
'Mr Clavell tells his story brilliantly' (The Times )
'One of the great page turners of all time' ( Good Book Guide )
'I can't remember when a novel has seized my mind like this one. It's irresistable, maybe unforgettable. Clavell ... creates a world so enveloping you forget who and where you are' (New York Times )
'SHOGUN is a huge exotic, blood-stained canvas of sixteenth century but still medieval Japan, rival warlords and proselytising Jesuits, geishas, seppuku, samurai with the death-with and a shipwrecked Elizabethan' (Guardian )
'Mr Clavell tells his story brilliantly' (The Times )
'One of the great page turners of all time' ( Good Book Guide )
'I can't remember when a novel has seized my mind like this one. It's irresistable, maybe unforgettable. Clavell ... creates a world so enveloping you forget who and where you are' (New York Times )
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book for the first time when I was 19 in 1982.
I have since bought two more copies simply because I have reread it so much the first two copies fell apart.
It just doesn't get much better than this story of a man dumped into a world completly different from anything he (or we) have seen before.
It's like the best science fiction in that it creates a world massively different to anything we've seen before - and makes us care about it and want to understand it.
Following directly from Shogun I bought 15-20 books about Japan - just becasue it was so compelling I wanted to know more about the country and it's history and it's people.
It's not going too far to say that this book changed my view of the world and has been a constant friend for a quarter of a century
I have since bought two more copies simply because I have reread it so much the first two copies fell apart.
It just doesn't get much better than this story of a man dumped into a world completly different from anything he (or we) have seen before.
It's like the best science fiction in that it creates a world massively different to anything we've seen before - and makes us care about it and want to understand it.
Following directly from Shogun I bought 15-20 books about Japan - just becasue it was so compelling I wanted to know more about the country and it's history and it's people.
It's not going too far to say that this book changed my view of the world and has been a constant friend for a quarter of a century
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I cant believe no one has chosen to review this book ! Vaguely remember watching Richard Chamberlain playing the lead role back in the 70's, along with "The water margin" and "monkey" . Fast forward to 2004 and "The last samurai" - I was hooked - I wanted more and then up pops in my recomendations SHOGUN!! . Bought it ,read it , re read it! Absolutely brilliant! Action ,intrigue ,honour . It will never leave my bookcase.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I first read this book 15 years ago and remember being taken by it and recently decided to buy a copy and reread it.
English Pilot- Major Blackthorne and the remains of his crew remain ship-wrecked on the shores of Japan.
He and his crew are captured and risk execution. However various lords realise that Blackthorne has knowledge of another world that can help in their rise to power. However the same knowledge is deadly for the Spanish and Portughese , who would prefer to have him dead.
Blackthorne finally comes under the protection of the warlord Toranaga and little by little learns more of the Japanese, their rites, their way of life and Bushido. He is also granted the title of Samurai.
At over 1000 pages, the book is a well written epic. Interesting the culture clash between the Elizabethan English man and the Japanese.
Recommended if you love a Samurai read and have an interest in Japanese culture.
English Pilot- Major Blackthorne and the remains of his crew remain ship-wrecked on the shores of Japan.
He and his crew are captured and risk execution. However various lords realise that Blackthorne has knowledge of another world that can help in their rise to power. However the same knowledge is deadly for the Spanish and Portughese , who would prefer to have him dead.
Blackthorne finally comes under the protection of the warlord Toranaga and little by little learns more of the Japanese, their rites, their way of life and Bushido. He is also granted the title of Samurai.
At over 1000 pages, the book is a well written epic. Interesting the culture clash between the Elizabethan English man and the Japanese.
Recommended if you love a Samurai read and have an interest in Japanese culture.
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A wonderful historical novel
I love all of Clavell's novels but Shogun is without doubt the best! The good use of Japanese names and language allows you to immerse yourself in the story and become one with the... Read more
Published 11 months ago by GG
A fantastic book
Certainly one of the most enjoyable novels I have ever read - I just wish a proper hard back, large letters was published
One surprising thing - a minor typo present in... Read more
One surprising thing - a minor typo present in... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Zen_learner
Great read
I lost my original copy having read the book many years ago. Currently enjoying the re-discovery of life in feudal Japan.
Published 20 months ago by David J. Potter
Did he get bored writing it at the end?
Here we are in 2010 and this is the first time I have read Shogun. Obviously I saw the TV series back in the mists of time but it didn't really leave me with any particularly... Read more
Published 22 months ago by uncle barbar
Good but epic
I bought this as I remember having thoroughly enjoyed the TV mini-series in the '80s. It's a good narrative well told. Read more
Published 23 months ago by D. King
Shogun
`Shogun' is quite simply one of the best books I have ever read. From the opening pages I was immediately hooked and I wasn't able to think of anything else until I reached the... Read more
Published on 21 Jan 2010 by Spider Monkey
Nothing to touch it.
Shogun: A Novel of JapanI bought this book when it first came out, in the seventies and have lost count of the number of times i have read it and also the amount of people i have... Read more
Published on 4 Jan 2010 by Big Al
If you only ever read one book...
..this should be it.
I first read this book in the late 80's and my mind was blown. I made each of my closest 5 or 6 friends read it and all they all felt the same. Read more
I first read this book in the late 80's and my mind was blown. I made each of my closest 5 or 6 friends read it and all they all felt the same. Read more
Published on 8 Oct 2008 by Mr. S. P. Rowe
First Englishman in Feudal Japan
One of the best historical action drama novels ever written. The book is on par with the Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough that brings Caesar to life. Read more
Published on 5 Oct 2007 by Mr. William Oxley
My favourite book of all time
I simply love this book.
It has an adictive plot. James Clavell has a great way of expressing the characters and the surrounds of 17TH Centuary Japan. Read more
It has an adictive plot. James Clavell has a great way of expressing the characters and the surrounds of 17TH Centuary Japan. Read more
Published on 15 Dec 2006 by Mr. D. Ryan
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