Kai Lung golden hours Ernest Bramah Roberto Zavala 9781543135374 Books
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Written by Ernest Bramah. Preface Hilaire Belloc. Man is born to make. His business is to construct; to plan; to carry out the plan to fit together, and to produce a finished thing. That human art in which it is most difficult to achieve this end and in which it is far easier to neglect it than in any other is the art of writing. Yet this much is certain, that unconstructed writing is at once worthless and ephemeral; and nearly the whole of our modern English writing is unconstructed, The matter of survival is perhaps not the most important, though it is a test of a kind, and it is a test which every serious writer feels most intimately.
Kai Lung golden hours Ernest Bramah Roberto Zavala 9781543135374 Books
Kai Lung's Golden Hours is an excellent book, connecting about a dozen stories that vary from engrossing or touching to hilarious, each told with the sparkling wit and faux-mythic-China setting that are the defining features indelibly associated with the name "Kai Lung," with a simple but nonetheless gripping story *about* Kai Lung.The Wildside Press edition, however, is an inferior reprint edition. In a handful of places a character's faux-Chinese name is replaced by a similar ordinary English word, and in several places two paragraphs of dialogue run together with only a space, not the usual line break and indentation, between them. This is the quality that one expects from editions advertised with verbiage like "This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes ..." But the Wildside Press advertises no such possible defects. The lack of a table of contents adds insult to injury, since a couple of the stories are memorable gems that one may find oneself wanting to quote even years later.
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Kai Lung golden hours Ernest Bramah Roberto Zavala 9781543135374 Books Reviews
How can you not want to read something Lord Peter Wimsey mentions? This one has been on my wish list for years; I'm glad to have it.
Well written, enjoyable, and chock-full of subtle moral lessons. At a time when so much of what passes for fantasy writing is nothing more than junk, Wallet of Kai Lung does not pretend, like so many others, to be like Tolkien, or anyone else. It's just a good, fun, read all on its own.
Bramah sure can spin a phrase. The book is a collection of stories told by Kai Lung, and as such is excellent. You are transported back into this fictional China, where introductions can take hours as the two people flatter each other & humble themselves endlessly. The stories are very amusing, but be forewarned; the language takes some time to read through & comprehend. Not a book to breeze through (but oh so rewarding when you do read it!)
as are both of the Kai Lung books. Kai Lung is an itinerant story teller in ancient China, and these are some of his stories.
Actually, of course, these are stories written by Ernest Bramah, who did NOT live in ancient China, but only pretended he did, but from a Western perspective they're still extremely good stories, and in reality they were written for the Western world.
Enjoy.
It is always satisfying when virtue and righteousness triumph over ignorance and superstition, and especially when the triumph is accompanied by humor and an articulate expression of entertaining ideas. The Kai Lung books are among the very few texts that I will take time to re-read. One caveat is that not everyone will appreciate Bramah's prose style. Before ordering a copy of any Kai Lung book, you would be well advised to read a sample. If you enjoy it, then many felicitations will accompany your reading.
I love the over-the-top pseudo-chinese-classical style of Bramah's writing "It is indeed unlikely that you could condescend to stop and listen to the foolish words of such an insignificant and altogether deformed person as myself. Nevertheless, if you could retard your elegant footsteps for a few moments, this exeedingly unprepossessing individual will endeavor to entertain you."
If you don't like that style, you'll find it difficult to get past it to the entertaining and humorous stories of Kai Lung.
The formatting could use some improvement (uneven margins on my iPhone, double line breaks for paragraphs), but it's not too bad.
The book is a series of stories told by Kai Lung, an itinerant Chinese story teller. The China involved is rather like the Mikado's Japan - a vehicle for making fun of Britain. I sought out this book because Dorothy Sayers used quotes from it to head chapters in one of the Lord Peter Wimsey novels. Recommended for those who enjoy Wodehouse, Sayers and other light-hearted wordsmiths of the early twentieth century and those who enjoy humorous adventure stories. Not recommended for the racial grievance oriented since Asian stereotypes are used for humorous effects in a good natured manner. (I also enjoyed Potash and Perlmutter which is similarly "offensive" to my own ethnicity by current standards.)
Kai Lung's Golden Hours is an excellent book, connecting about a dozen stories that vary from engrossing or touching to hilarious, each told with the sparkling wit and faux-mythic-China setting that are the defining features indelibly associated with the name "Kai Lung," with a simple but nonetheless gripping story *about* Kai Lung.
The Wildside Press edition, however, is an inferior reprint edition. In a handful of places a character's faux-Chinese name is replaced by a similar ordinary English word, and in several places two paragraphs of dialogue run together with only a space, not the usual line break and indentation, between them. This is the quality that one expects from editions advertised with verbiage like "This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes ..." But the Wildside Press advertises no such possible defects. The lack of a table of contents adds insult to injury, since a couple of the stories are memorable gems that one may find oneself wanting to quote even years later.
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