Jin Yong
Birth date: February 06, 1924
Jin Yong's Books
I've been wanting to try out a wuxia novel for a while, so after learning that there was an English translation of "Legend of the Condor Heroes", one of the most renowned and adapted stories of the genre, I picked up a copy. As pointed out in other reviews, the comparison to "The Lord of the Rings...
Despite what you read on the covers (e.g. “It’s like Lord of the Rings”) ignore all of that. It’s nothing like it. There is no epic adventure to fight evil (at least not yet - this is the first book in the series). So before you get all disappointed in what the outside quotes say, completely disrega...
This is the first of twelve volumes in this fantasy Kung Fu series by a celebrated Chinese author, Jin Yong. This novel centres around two sons of martial art heroes and their fate. Guo encounters a variety of martial art experts and the text is full of fights and Kung fu moves. There’s some histor...
Wow... This collection of poetry is just stunning; the eloquence and imagery attained by the author is amazing and intense. The poems in this collection sometimes made me think, others made me FEEL and a few made me want to cry. Having written some poetry in my younger years (not that well m...