Ugh, this took me too long to start--I had the omnibus edition and had to take it back to the library. Will return to it. I really enjoyed the first section with Master Li and Number Ten Ox trying to help the village children who were poisoned. "I have a small character flaw." Master Li is scary sm...
What a beautiful novel. Bridge of Birds is a Fantasy novel set in ancient China. It shows the tremendous potential of Fantasy to tell stories in a wide variety of settings instead of the overused Medieval Europe backdrop.
Wow. This book lives up to the hype. It is wonderful. Hughart takes the reader to a place and time that never truly was, but is wonderful and real. The book is wonderful, its brillant, its Chaucerian. Bridge of Birds has an controling quest, but it is told in three parts, each part forming part ...
The only complaint I have about this volume of Barry Hughart books is that Hughart never wrote any more.I bought The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox from the Science Fiction Book club, largely because of the name. If you're into Princess Bride-style humor and dungeon crawls, these are the...
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