Blogs about: James Clavell

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Reviewed: James Clavell’s <i>Noble House</i>

"The Epic Novel of Modern Hong Kong" James Clavell’s Noble House is a novel about one week in the life of a Hong Kong business executive in 1963.  And it’s 1370 pages long. No, wait, don’t s… more →

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at theaters: june 14, 1967

Dave wrote 5 days ago: Opened in movie theaters 46 years ago today: TO SIR WITH LOVE (Sidney Poitier; directed by James Cla … more →

Tags: Movies, History, 1967, sidney poitier, Lulu

Film review: The Fly (1958)

Mistlake wrote 1 week ago: Director: Kurt Neumann. Screenplay: James Clavell, based on the short story by James Langelaan. Star … more →

Tags: Film Reviews, 1958, film, Horror, Kurt Neumann, Review, The Fly, Vincent Price

Shogun: A Novel of Medieval Japan by James Clavell — 4 comments

jhame085 wrote 1 week ago: May contain Spoilers!!! Shogun is a very different novel from what I’m used to. First, while I … more →

Tags: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Japan, shogun, Japanese Language, english people, Japanese History

A blog series: Big in Europeana - Japanese art and artefacts — 1 comment

kadmeianletters wrote 2 weeks ago: It was 1984, I was 12, and Shōgun was the TV-series all the kids were talking about. The violence! T … more →

Tags: europeana, blog series, Japan, Nippon, shogun, Marco Polo, William Adams, Deshima, Matthew Perry

been a while hey?!

blueice760 wrote 3 weeks ago: Yeah its been a long time since my last post.   Life has been stagnant. Progress on PhD is pain … more →

Tags: Random Thoughts, anjin, book, Frankie Sakai, ICTP, Japanese, Mathematica, perfect women, shogun

The Great Escape Is A Great War Movie

philspicks wrote 1 month ago: Courtesy: 20th Century Fox/MGM The world celebrated what is one of the most important dates in histo … more →

Tags: Movies, DVDs and BLU-RAYs, Internet, Celebrities, Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, facebook, Celebrities, movies

TWTV Hall of Fame: May 2013 - Miniseries — 12 comments

Les Chappell wrote 1 month ago: By Les Chappell, Emma Fraser, Whitney McIntosh, Andrew Rabin, and Anthony Strand Welcome back to Thi … more →

Tags: TWTV Hall of Fame, NBC, HBO, roots, LeVar Burton, TWTV Hall of Fame May, Miniseries, Richard Chamberlin, merlin

The attack of the bookworm — 10 comments

jlapis wrote 1 month ago: Late post. Hehe I am ecstatic! Finally, I’ve completed the 6-book saga of James Clavell! Bwaha … more →

Tags: Loves, Books, shogun, taipan, whirlwind, King Rat, noble house, twilight, mills and boon

Some small thoughts after Shōgun

hbdraug wrote 1 month ago: After finally getting around to reading the well-renown James Clavell’s Shōgun, I debated what to sa … more →

Tags: Musings on Japan, chanbara, Books and Film, Japan, John Blackthorne, shogun, asian saga, Literature, Historical Fiction

Putting a Book Down

Nick Merrill wrote 1 month ago: I’ve known a lot of people to say, “I finish every book I start.” It’s usually a point of pride – qu … more →

Tags: Thoughts, Cormac Mccarthy, Unfinished, rejection, Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace, sunk cost, infinitejest, suttree

The Tales of Japan

Elise Haskell wrote 1 month ago: Although most of (like 99 per cent) of the Japanese literature I’ve read is manga, but a few r … more →

Tags: Planning stage, Lost Girls and Love Hotels, Catherine Hanrahan, The Tale of Genji, Monogatari Genj, murasaki shikibu, shogun, geisha, Liza Dalby

The Decline of Irvine Welsh

bucketoftongues wrote 2 months ago: I am currently reading Skagboys, the much-anticipated (in certain households at least) prequel to Tr … more →

Tags: Books, alexander trocchi, American Psycho, Charlotte Gilman, Gary Numan, Guns n Roses, Iain Banks, Irvine Welsh, James Joyce

Five Questions with... Colin McAdam

ifoamedia wrote 2 months ago: (c) Lisa Myers Colin McAdam, author of A Beautiful Truth, answered our five questions. IFOA: A Beaut … more →

Tags: Five Questions With, Authors at Harbourfront Centre, Colin McAdam, A beautiful truth, Readings

Weekly Recap – March 15th, 2013

Phillip McCollum wrote 2 months ago: Back in the office and it’s been a busy week. *** I spent about six days drafting and refining … more →

Tags: Me, writing, Fiction, Story, Books, Novel, Tips, Scenes, Writing Tips

Kanji in Context - Samurai - Racism - Evil Dead — 4 comments

mahouxnagareboshi wrote 3 months ago: Look whose evil now! This is a line from a musical called Evil Dead the Musical. You might know the … more →

Tags: Learning Materials, book, Evil Dead, Evil Dead: The Musical, hi, Japanese Language, Japanese sentence deck release, Kanji in Context full deck, Learning Languages

Timeless wisdom.

ourfriendben wrote 3 months ago: I’ve just been reading James Clavell’s novel of the rise of Japan’s Tokugawa Shogu … more →

Tags: Reiki, Reiki wisdom, mikao usui, shogun, Shunryu Suzuki, japanese values, western values

Tips on Character Creation — 1 comment

mciddangelo wrote 3 months ago: When you think of a book, short story, film, or television program, what is the FIRST thing that com … more →

Tags: writing, Short Stories, Novel, Publishing, Stephen King, Writing Tips, facebook, THE BIG BANG THEORY, the walking dead

Liebster Award — 4 comments

Martin Shone wrote 3 months ago: Julia at Butterfly Tales has given me The Liebster award (for some reason I can’t insert a pho … more →

Tags: writing, Curiosity, award, Martin Shone, Liebster award, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Elizabeth Kostova, Garry Kaspraov, Rumer

White Rocket 014: James Clavell's Asian Saga!

vplexico wrote 4 months ago: This week author Rick Lai joins Van to discuss one of the greatest achievements in both literature a … more →

Tags: movies, interview 2, The White Rocket Podcast, shogun, noble house, Tai Pan, asian saga


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