My recent readings are all surrounding 三國 (in English: The Romance of the Three Kingdoms). During my previous business trip to China, I bought 易中天's 品三國, which is currently a very popular book in China, and finished it on the flight home. This book focuses on the characters, why they succeeded or failed based on their character. Recently a friend of mine lends me a set of comic books 火鳳燎原, by an author in Hong Kong. It tries to interpret the story from a brand new angle, and the drawings are also world class.
I have always been a fan of 三國 since I was a kid. I still remember reading the 三國演義 comics when I was in kindergarten, and reading 三國演義 repeatedly during the summers of elementary schools. When I first started playing computer games, the first game I played was a 三國 based game 吞食天地. I also spent numerous hours on the different versions of 三國志, building up my own kingdom and dreaming of becoming the characters in the story.
The stories of 三國 never change, but as I grow older, the stories have different meanings to me and gradually I can get more out of the same stories and characters, and view them from totally different perspectives.
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