/lit/ - Literature

Is this book worth reading? Thinking of going to Barnes and Nobles tomorrow after work and reading it over the weekend.

I'm on my third read of this book and it's a ride every time. You have read Musashi, haven't you /lit/?

Just finished this, although it took me way longer to read than it should have despite the prose being very basic. Giving a summary of my thoughts before filing it away in the back of my mind.

The best parts of the story were when it focused on Musashi and his developing philosophy, but that was pretty rare compared to how much the book faffs with side characters. A lot of chapters involved the love interest and sidekick trying to figure out how to get back to Musashi, and then once they do they're together for maybe 3 or 4 chapters before getting separated by some arbitrary shit so that the cycle can repeat again. Despite focusing a lot on the side characters, none of them get a good ending to their development besides one (Osugi), and even then hers felt it could have reached the same conclusion in a much shorter time.
The rivalry between Musashi and Kojiro felt a bit undercooked, though maybe that was done so as to stay more faithful to their real history.
I liked the final 2 chapters a lot, probably the best in the whole book. The fight between Musashi and Kojiro was pretty good, but the ending comes immediately after that and felt anticlimactic to me (though maybe that sort of ending is best when creating a fictional story based on real people).
As tends to be the case, I feel the pacing in the story was held back by originally releasing in a serialized format and not being created with the idea it'd be a single, larger work.

My own rambling thoughts aside, have you read it? If so, what did you think about it?

Musashi

It's not 'technically' YA, but it reads like YA.

World's greatest swordsman's stops using a sword. Also there's like fifteen other main characters I guess.

Should I read Musashi or Vagabond?
Or both?

>>16807308
It looks like fantasy/wuxia. Try asking in /sffg/ >>16799897

It's not fantasy, but you might like Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa. Epic samurai story based on the life of Japan's best swordsman.

pic related

>>16550791
Or this

Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa

This is epic in the original sense of the word

Yoshikawa's Musashi is also a good read

>musashi
>currently pynchon
>lol yeah right
>rimming/facesitting/fat ass worship

"I want to dedicate myself to training and discipline. I want to spend every moment of every day working to improve myself."

Defeating one guy in battle is the culmination of his 1000 page journey for enlightenment? Perhaps it's suggesting that you need a goal to strive ceaselessly towards in order to achieve fulfilment, escaping the body and becoming at one with the world through the unity of mind, body, and spirit employed for one purpose. Still, I expected more. Most of the other characters are simply forgotten or got rid of.

>>14358384
Musashi is a nice book with which to get into reading because it is very long ~1000 pages, a great story, and extremely readable.

What am I in for?

has anyone ever read musashi? did you like it?
the cover art is cool as fuck and the description sounds interesting.

Is pic related a good read?

>>13167761
I don't know about the documentary, but there's also the Samurai Trilogy films which were based on pic related.

>>13136045
We just like that he bashes liberal halos