The Chao Clan’s Water Margin
晁氏水浒
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 1.4M Words
- Genre
- Historical
- Subgenre
- Alternate History
- Updated
- 12y ago
- English
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History, Modern Life, Games, and Fantasy; Laughs, Passion, Grit, and Humanity
2017.07.25: 2,000 followers. My selection criteria: 1. The views on life and human nature align with mine; 2. The writing flows well, and the characters are vivid and distinctive; 3. The book once set the trend; 4. It has earned mainstream recognition, such as strong print sales or a film or TV adaptation. Of course, most important of all, it has to be my kind of book. Sometimes a book suddenly disappears, reminding me that in the end, I'm just an insignificant speck.
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Wouldn’t it be grand to be a steed galloping a thousand miles! The novels on this list are ones I read back when I was completely obsessed with fiction. Some are now considered excellent works or even groundbreaking classics, and many were thrilling historical or fantasy stories at the time. There are a few I started reading and couldn’t bear to delete, so I’ve kept them as mementos... This list is simply a way for me to remember what I’ve read and revisit the complicated feelings I had at the t
A Casual Reading List, Though I Think These Are Pretty Good (Follow Me If You Agree!)
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Thought-Provoking Books Covering a Lot of Ground
I believe online fiction needs more than just passion; it also needs some reason. For me, a good novel is one whose title comes to mind whenever you think of the genre.
Sifting Through the Sand to Find the Gems
Qidian has produced countless works over the past decade and more, but the good and bad are all mixed together. So, like the legendary Shennong, I'm tasting every herb and testing the books myself for your reading pleasure. These are honest recommendations from years of reading, and well worth your time.
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The Moon in the Well
I named this list Moon in the Well because I think real history is like the moon reflected in a well: clear yet illusory, seemingly within reach but forever impossible to possess. What a contradiction! Just like life, are we really alive? I rate each novel on its sense of history, writing, rigor, imagination, entertainment, and storytelling. Each category carries a different weight, for a total of 100 points. Sense of history: Mainly based on the reading experience as a whole. Maximum 30 points.
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After recruiting Dong Ping, there's not much to see. What kind of person is Dong Ping? Just a thug. It seems the protagonist isn't much different from Song Jiang.
Sun Erniang's appearance in the original novel is truly terrifying!
Seeing that Lin Chong's martial arts skills were superior to Guan Sheng's made it a bit boring. 🙂
It's well-written, but it's too fixated on the original text. It's like when I read *Water Margin* as a child, I thought everyone in it was a hero, and I admired it. But when I reread it as an adult, although I still like *Water Margin*, there are too many scoundrels. The earlier attempts to whitewash Dong Ping, despite his poor character, were ridiculously good at fighting. Later, even Sun Erniang's human flesh buns were whitewashed, and it became unbearable to watch.
The protagonist has too much of a rough-and-tumble air about him, and too little of an imperial aura or the aura of a warlord in a chaotic era.
The author has really heavy tastes; even Sun Erniang is included, and such a demonic character is forcibly whitewashed.
Why did the Crown Prince ride alone? Was he stupid?
I might have liked this book ten years ago, but now that I'm a seasoned bookworm, it feels rather shabby.
I read this book several years ago; it was the first Water Margin fanfiction I ever read, and it was quite good. I feel like other Water Margin fanfictions aren't really to my taste.
This is yet another book that completely vilifies Song Jiang. Why do Water Margin fanfictions love to rely on conspiracy theories so much? It's fine to say he had historical limitations, couldn't see the Song Dynasty's true nature, and didn't deserve to be protected, or that he harmed the people in the early stages of the story. But why is the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden being unfairly maligned?