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Imaan00
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2020-05-27 19:56

It's true that I haven't read anything about the Silk Road either—at least not something fictional. Good to see someone addressing it ❤︎ Wished it was more fictional though, with a different world background and some interesting characters. Overall 👍🏽

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Gourmet_DAO
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Yes, I myself would be glad to read such a story about the Silk Road. But for now, I can only popularize this topic myself in the hope that someone can write an interesting novel on this topic. The region from Persia to China, from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Indonesia, Singapore, Okinawa, Japan and North and East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Central Asia is very curious in terms of trade and lost historical artifacts! Thanks for the review!

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Go rin no sho in third person. This review is part of a review swap (I apologise for being tardy). This is just about as far from western writing as you can get. While the language used is superb compared to the average on this site it's a hard read if you expect a story built according to, for example, the structure given by Joseph Campbell. Rather than story I'd call this history. I'm not talking about the prose and execution you'd expect from a history book published today in the European or American sphere, but rather the kind you'd run into a couple of hundred years ago in the far east. Some older Arabian writing should also fit in pretty well. Given those boundaries it's done very well, but those are harsh boundaries indeed. There is a narrative, but the vast majority of the text is exposition. You'll either have to buy into this, or just drop it altogether. There's simply no middle way. Now for the stars: Writing: Five stars. Not much to comment here. Updates: Five stars. A mere seventeen chapters isn't enough for me to check updates. Story: Four stars. It develops, but as I've stated earlier, this isn't a story in the ordinary way at all. Character: Three stars. The people in the story are there as reader proxies to explore a world and a time in a fictional universe. They aren't there to experience that world themselves. World: Five stars. This is basically all about world. Everything else takes a back seat. Lastly: An interesting experiment. It's not my cup of tea, but it's still a very well executed experiement.

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