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陆小凤系列 #2
古龙文集·陆小凤传奇2：绣花大盗
《陆小凤传奇2：绣花大盗》是古龙继《陆小凤传奇：金鹏王朝》之后，写的又一个陆小凤的传奇冒险故事。把守严密、连陆小凤都无法突破的王府金库被人堂而皇之地侵入，将这些价值连城的宝物盗走的大盗，却是个绣着花的络腮胡大汉。在这背后究竟隐藏着怎样的阴谋？又包含着谁的野心？陆小凤要如何化解这一次危机？在“陆小凤传奇”系列中，古龙塑造了有四条眉毛的陆小凤这个家喻户晓的角色，他总会遇到江湖上最离奇的事件，但凭借着过人的头脑与绝世武功“灵犀一指”，每次都能成功解决，化险为夷；另外，还有西门吹雪、叶孤城、木道人、公孙大娘、老实和尚等一系列个性十足的角色，在本系列中纷纷登场。随着“陆小凤传奇”系列不断被改编成影视剧、网络游戏，乃至成为其他大量文学作品的灵感来源，也越来越深入娱乐、文化生活，成为影响中国人精神世界的重要组成部分。
159 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1976
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Gu Long
512 books85 followersalso known as: 古龍
Xiong Yaohua (Chinese: 熊耀華) (7 June 1938 – 21 September 1985), better known by his pen name Gu Long, was a Chinese novelist, screenwriter, film producer and director. Xiong is best known for writing wuxia novels and serials, which include Juedai Shuangjiao, Xiaoli Feidao Series, Chu Liuxiang Series, Lu Xiaofeng Series and Xiao Shiyilang. Some of these works have been adapted into films and television series for numerous times. In the 1980s Xiong started his own film studio, Bao Sian, to focus on adaptations of his works. He graduated from Cheng Kung Senior High School in Taipei and from the Foreign Language Department of Tamkang University.
Xiong was born on 7 June 1938 in Hong Kong but his registered identity claimed that he was born in 1941. His ancestral home was in Nanchang, Jiangxi, China, and he lived in Hankou in his childhood. He moved to Taipei, Taiwan in 1952 with his parents, who divorced in 1956. With help from his friends and using the money he earned from part-time work to fund his education, Xiong graduated from the Foreign Language Department of Tamkang University. He found a job in the United States Army Advisory in Taipei later.
In 1960, Xiong published his first wuxia novel, Cangqiong Shenjian (蒼穹神劍), under the pen name "Gu Long". From 1960 to 1961, Xiong published eight novels but did not achieve the results he desired. He moved to Ruifang Town (瑞芳鎮) and lived there for three years, after which he changed his perspective and adopted a new writing style. Between 1967 and the late 1970s, Xiong rose to prominence in the genre of modern wuxia fiction for his works. As the sole representative of excellence in the wuxia genre from Taiwan for an entire decade, Xiong was named along with Jin Yong and Liang Yusheng as the "Three Legs of the Tripod of Wuxia".
While he was still in university, Xiong lived with a dance hostess, Zheng Yuexia (鄭月霞), and had a son, Zheng Xiaolong (鄭小龍), with her. However, later, he started a relationship with another dance hostess, Ye Xue (葉雪), who also bore him a son, Ye Yikuan (葉怡寬). Shortly after that, Xiong met a senior middle school graduate, Mei Baozhu (梅寶珠), who became his first legal spouse and bore him his third son, Xiong Zhengda (熊正達). Xiong's extramarital affairs with other women caused him to break up with Mei later.
In the later part of his life, Xiong suffered from depression and the quality of his works declined rapidly. He had to employ ghostwriters to co-write many of his later works because of his ailing health. He died on 21 September 1985 at the age of 48 due to illness wrought by alcoholism, namely cirrhosis and esophageal hemorrhage, at around 6pm. Xiong's friends brought him 48 bottles of XO at his funeral.
Xiong was said to be influenced not only by wuxia fiction, but also by the works of Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, John Steinbeck and Friedrich Nietzsche. His novels are usually made up of short sentences and paragraphs, and mostly dialogues between characters like a play script.
In contrast with Xiong, other writers such as Jin Yong and Liang Yusheng take an alternative route in writing wuxia fiction, incorporating Chinese history, culture and philosophical ideas in their works. Xiong initially intended to follow them but changed his decision after exposure to western works such as the James Bond series and The Godfather novels. The influence of these works, which relied on the idiosyncrasies of human life, razor-sharp wit, poetic philosophies, mysterious plots and spine-tingling thrills to achieve success, enabled Xiong to come up with a unique way of writing.
(source: wiki)
Gu Long and Khu Lung are the same person, the latter is the Hokkien pronunciation in Indonesia.
Xiong Yaohua (Chinese: 熊耀華) (7 June 1938 – 21 September 1985), better known by his pen name Gu Long, was a Chinese novelist, screenwriter, film producer and director. Xiong is best known for writing wuxia novels and serials, which include Juedai Shuangjiao, Xiaoli Feidao Series, Chu Liuxiang Series, Lu Xiaofeng Series and Xiao Shiyilang. Some of these works have been adapted into films and television series for numerous times. In the 1980s Xiong started his own film studio, Bao Sian, to focus on adaptations of his works. He graduated from Cheng Kung Senior High School in Taipei and from the Foreign Language Department of Tamkang University.
Xiong was born on 7 June 1938 in Hong Kong but his registered identity claimed that he was born in 1941. His ancestral home was in Nanchang, Jiangxi, China, and he lived in Hankou in his childhood. He moved to Taipei, Taiwan in 1952 with his parents, who divorced in 1956. With help from his friends and using the money he earned from part-time work to fund his education, Xiong graduated from the Foreign Language Department of Tamkang University. He found a job in the United States Army Advisory in Taipei later.
In 1960, Xiong published his first wuxia novel, Cangqiong Shenjian (蒼穹神劍), under the pen name "Gu Long". From 1960 to 1961, Xiong published eight novels but did not achieve the results he desired. He moved to Ruifang Town (瑞芳鎮) and lived there for three years, after which he changed his perspective and adopted a new writing style. Between 1967 and the late 1970s, Xiong rose to prominence in the genre of modern wuxia fiction for his works. As the sole representative of excellence in the wuxia genre from Taiwan for an entire decade, Xiong was named along with Jin Yong and Liang Yusheng as the "Three Legs of the Tripod of Wuxia".
While he was still in university, Xiong lived with a dance hostess, Zheng Yuexia (鄭月霞), and had a son, Zheng Xiaolong (鄭小龍), with her. However, later, he started a relationship with another dance hostess, Ye Xue (葉雪), who also bore him a son, Ye Yikuan (葉怡寬). Shortly after that, Xiong met a senior middle school graduate, Mei Baozhu (梅寶珠), who became his first legal spouse and bore him his third son, Xiong Zhengda (熊正達). Xiong's extramarital affairs with other women caused him to break up with Mei later.
In the later part of his life, Xiong suffered from depression and the quality of his works declined rapidly. He had to employ ghostwriters to co-write many of his later works because of his ailing health. He died on 21 September 1985 at the age of 48 due to illness wrought by alcoholism, namely cirrhosis and esophageal hemorrhage, at around 6pm. Xiong's friends brought him 48 bottles of XO at his funeral.
Xiong was said to be influenced not only by wuxia fiction, but also by the works of Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, John Steinbeck and Friedrich Nietzsche. His novels are usually made up of short sentences and paragraphs, and mostly dialogues between characters like a play script.
In contrast with Xiong, other writers such as Jin Yong and Liang Yusheng take an alternative route in writing wuxia fiction, incorporating Chinese history, culture and philosophical ideas in their works. Xiong initially intended to follow them but changed his decision after exposure to western works such as the James Bond series and The Godfather novels. The influence of these works, which relied on the idiosyncrasies of human life, razor-sharp wit, poetic philosophies, mysterious plots and spine-tingling thrills to achieve success, enabled Xiong to come up with a unique way of writing.
(source: wiki)
Gu Long and Khu Lung are the same person, the latter is the Hokkien pronunciation in Indonesia.
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June 6, 2025
What the girl fished out from her basket was not flower, but a pair of scissors, and she was wielding it at Lu Xiaofeng. Who would have guessed this sweet, gentle young girl could be so fast and merciless with a weapon in hand?
Lu Xiaofeng was surprised, but fortunately it wasn't the first time a woman going after him with a pair of scissors. So he turned rapidly and backed a good few feet away from the girl at once.
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Gu Long's Lu Xiaofeng series vol. 2: The Embroidery Thief tells an intriguing tale of murder mystery,adventure, romance, betrayal and sword-fights. Our hero, Lu Xiaofeng (a.k.a Lu the Young Phoenix) found himself chasing after the mysterious and deadly Embroidery Thief: a highly unusual male thief with stunning fighting skill and...a great love for embroidery and the use of tiny needles as weapon to blind and kill his victims. Who was this daring and merciless thief? And more importantly...was he really a man?
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This time, the author's sense of humor once again won me over in no time at all, plus it is rather endearing to see Gu Long let his Cantonese gangsters speak Cantonese whilst the main characters are seemingly speaking Mandarin (Cantonese in movies and novels are always a kind of comic release, so to speak), I'm also impressed by the final plot twists in the end--it is even better than the first book.
I also like how female characters are presented in this novel, instead of some woody, sexualized and stereotyped femme fatale, we have a complicated and well round female villain to rival the charming male lead. (still, I am *not* saying there is no generalization and stereotyping of women as a whole in this book.)
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The more I read, the more I realize Gu Long's novels are actually Western set in a fictional ancient China backdrop, with sword-duels instead of gun duels. Unlike the other grand masters of martial art novels, Gu Long wasn't insterested
in putting his stories in a particular historical setting, nor was he interested in glorifying honor nor loyalty to the authority, instead he was more interested in exploring the different situations of swordmen and assassins, etc tried to survive in a 'dog-eats-dog' world of swordmenship and weaponry.
And I really appreciate what Gu Long had done with his characters, his 'devil-may-care' attitude, and his sassy sense of humor!
July 21, 2016
An improvement from the prequel. The fights were very intense, and the mystery was more satisfyingly resolved. 精彩！
February 19, 2018
So much fun to read.
May 22, 2024
เล่มนี้รู้สึกอ่านสนุกขึ้น อาจเพราะเริ่มชินสำนวนชื่อเรียกต่างๆ ละ เดินเรื่องไว เปิดเรื่องมาด้วยฉากฆ่าคนของจอมโจรปักดอกไม้ แล้วก็ค่อยๆ ติดตามพี่เล็กที่โดนหลอก (?) ให้เข้ามายุ่งเรื่องชาวบ้าน ค่อยๆ แกะรอยปริศนา หาตัวจริงของคนร้ายไปเรื่อยๆ ชอบความสับขาหลอกหลายชั้นของซีรีย์นี้นะ คือโดนหลอกจนเลิกพยายามที่จะเดาแล้ว อ่านตามไปเรื่อยๆ แบบเพลินๆ ดีกว่า
พอถึงเล่มสองก็เห็นชัดละ ว่าทั้งสมองและฝีมือพระเอกเราคือวางใจได้ มีพลาดบ้างอะไรบ้าง นิดหน่อย พอให้ลุ้นนิดนึง สนุกๆ จบเล่มสองเป็นเรื่องต่อเนื่องกับเล่มสามเลย โดยรวมคือ ไม่ถึงกับวางไม่ลง แต่ก็นับว่าอ่านเพลินไม่เลว แต่ละเล่มก็ไม่หนาจนพาให้ท้อใจ ไปต่อกันยาวๆ
พอถึงเล่มสองก็เห็นชัดละ ว่าทั้งสมองและฝีมือพระเอกเราคือวางใจได้ มีพลาดบ้างอะไรบ้าง นิดหน่อย พอให้ลุ้นนิดนึง สนุกๆ จบเล่มสองเป็นเรื่องต่อเนื่องกับเล่มสามเลย โดยรวมคือ ไม่ถึงกับวางไม่ลง แต่ก็นับว่าอ่านเพลินไม่เลว แต่ละเล่มก็ไม่หนาจนพาให้ท้อใจ ไปต่อกันยาวๆ
December 23, 2020
以古龍眾多故事的佈局而言，此故事的結構較嚴謹，全故事的所有謎團都可以被結局合理地解釋，為何兇手能輕易進出私密重地？為何能得悉許多內情？本來最合理的解釋，就是看守重寶的人中有內鬼，但古龍假兇手之手佈置迷局，以假証據使我們逐漸遠離真相，故事設計不可謂不妙。只是古龍一貫不喜描寫繁復的打鬥場面，令最使人期待的結局之戰在數頁間了結，頗為可惜。
April 20, 2022
เล่นนี้ความสนุกมาพร้อมความบางของเล่ม อ่านครั้งเดียวจบเลยการตามหาใครคือจอมโจรปักดอกไม้ ตัวละครหลับปรากฎในเล่มมากมาย น่าอ่านเล่มต่อไปมากเพราะเล่มนี้แอบทิ้ง Hint ไว้ท้ายเล่มด้วย
February 28, 2025
Cuốn này độ trinh thám hơn cuốn đầu. Tuy nhiên tác giả để lộ thủ phạm nhanh quá, nếu kéo dài thêm chút thì hấp dẫn hơn.
March 11, 2025
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