Louis Cha, GBM, OBE (born 6 February 1924), better known by his pen name Jin Yong (金庸, sometimes read and/or written as "Chin Yung"), is a modern Chinese-language novelist. Having co-founded the Hong Kong daily Ming Pao in 1959, he was the paper's first editor-in-chief.
Cha's fiction, which is of the wuxia ("martial arts and chivalry") genre, has a widespread following in Chinese-speaking areas, including mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and the United States. His 15 works written between 1955 and 1972 earned him a reputation as one of the finest wuxia writers ever. He is currently the best-selling Chinese author alive; over 100 million copies of his works have been sold worldwide (not including unknown number of bootleg copies).
Cha's works have been translated into English, French, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Burmese, Malay and Indonesian. He has many fans abroad as well, owing to the numerous adaptations of his works into films, television series, comics and video games.
金庸,大紫荊勳賢,OBE(英語:Louis Cha Leung-yung,1924年3月10日-2018年10月30日),本名查良鏞,浙江海寧人,祖籍江西婺源,1948年移居香港。自1950年代起,以筆名「金庸」創作多部膾炙人口的武俠小說,包括《射鵰英雄傳》、《神鵰俠侶》、《鹿鼎記》等,歷年來金庸筆下的著作屢次改編為電視劇、電影等,對華人影視文化可謂貢獻重大,亦奠定其成為華人知名作家的基礎。金庸早年於香港創辦《明報》系列報刊,他亦被稱為「香港四大才子」之一。
That was fun. I started the book thinking that it would have more connections to the heroes of the first and second series of the Condor Trilogy and so was a bit disappointed that it followed Guo Xiang 郭襄 only briefly in the first couple of chapters, and then a quick time jump so that it was 70 odd years later.
I think the heroes from the Condor Trilogy have such a place in my heart that I don’t know how Zhang Wuji 張無忌 is going to compare... but I have accepted it’s a different book and my heroes from the Condor Hero are no longer :c
Pacing Medium. Started off with the background story of the main character’s parents. Great and interesting plot line that keeps me reading page after page.
Everything starting from the doctor's house until his decision to wander off on his own made me cry, as did the section where he fought on behalf of the demonic sect, and had his identity revealed. The latter was the best part.
Everything else after that felt kind of lackluster, since he came off as fairly passive outside of filial piety. But when it was good it was really good.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.