Luo Guanzhong (tr. Moss Roberts), Three Kingdoms—they have this both abridged and unabridged (volume one, volume two), do I particularly need the unabridged?
It depends on what exactly was cut in the abridged version - unfortunately the page for the book doesn't tell one much (other than that about half the text was cut). Certainly there is a lot of material in the book I think you could live without - it's long and rambling - but if someone decided to, say, keep all the verified historical bits and cut the juicy sections featuring Cao Cao, Guan Yu, and Zhu-ge Liang, that wouldn't be something you'd want to read.
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Date: 2006-02-27 06:30 pm (UTC)It depends on what exactly was cut in the abridged version - unfortunately the page for the book doesn't tell one much (other than that about half the text was cut). Certainly there is a lot of material in the book I think you could live without - it's long and rambling - but if someone decided to, say, keep all the verified historical bits and cut the juicy sections featuring Cao Cao, Guan Yu, and Zhu-ge Liang, that wouldn't be something you'd want to read.
Dan Blum