Monkey (A Journey to the West)

[themycon]

Now for "just as shallow, but about a slightly higher class subject..."*

I finished reading David Kheridan's Monkey today. Brilliant book. It's his abridged translation of the classic Chinese novel A Journey to the West, perhaps the most popular classic of Asian Literature, probably the most read** book in the modern world. It cuts the original

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[faded_facade]

Journey to the West is brilliant. There was a television series made, at least I think it was made for TV, in the 80s and I grew up watching it and own the VHS copy of actually. There was a remake back in the 90s but I hated it. I prefer the original.

[themycon]

I think I saw the 90's version, once. It's a fun, brilliant, often funny story, which is why it's so popular still and has been made into so many other formats and redone to so many new stories.

I've downloaded a complete version (all 100 chapters, instead of the first 13 and last 10), to read it later on whenever I'm in a car ride or on a plane or something.