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绝代双骄 #1
絕代雙驕
十七年的寂寞，十七年的恨，這十七年，對於移花宮邀月宮主而言，著實難熬。花了十七年去恨一個人，花了十七年去策劃一場天倫悲劇，最終，她得到了什麼？ 江小魚和花無缺，兩個性格天差地遠的年輕人，在長輩的指導下，似乎註定要拚個你死我活，只是，為什麼他們心中卻有一絲異樣的情感悸動…… 一部笑中帶淚、高潮迭起的武俠經典，曾多次改編為戲劇作品，膾炙人口！ 《絕代雙驕》是古龍的經典名作之一，曾多次被改編成電視、電影，均大受歡迎。古龍以花無缺和小魚兒在本書中一莊一諧的個性，加上曲折離奇的情節安排，交織出一部笑中帶淚、高潮迭起的武俠經典。
1566 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1969
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Gu Long
512 books86 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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July 18, 2017
Probably one of the most popular Gu Long's novels. It has been adapted so many times into TV series, and comic books. It was written in middle period of Gu Long's career, when he was not too lazy as in his later works . Although I could detect some author's laziness in this work at the end parts, so sad.
The story treated the twins differently than majority twin tropes in fictions. Majority twin tropes exploit mistaken identity plots or synchronization plots of the twins (Thank you so much sanny for pointing out the trope). There was not a single scene on this novel that exploited the twins as two persons with the same appearance (in other words, no plot where people mistook A as B). Well, there was separated at birth twins trope, but that's still believable.
For unrealistic fantasy wuxia, this novel had many unique fantastic characters/plots/gimmicks, maybe it is Gu Long's best. to name a few: 12 criminals based on Chinese Zodiac (very improbable in real life. Haha), or fantastic martial arts of 2 princesses (how old were these 2 princesses, they seemed ageless).
Laziness was Gu Long's specialty in writings. He had so many promising ideas, he could not delivered all his promises in a story. I read an adaptation graphic novel of this Legendary Twins that could delivered the promises to readers better than the original novel.
So if you read this novel, I believe you could get some ideas/wishes that you could do better than the author. Especially the last third of the novel.
The story treated the twins differently than majority twin tropes in fictions. Majority twin tropes exploit mistaken identity plots or synchronization plots of the twins (Thank you so much sanny for pointing out the trope). There was not a single scene on this novel that exploited the twins as two persons with the same appearance (in other words, no plot where people mistook A as B). Well, there was separated at birth twins trope, but that's still believable.
For unrealistic fantasy wuxia, this novel had many unique fantastic characters/plots/gimmicks, maybe it is Gu Long's best. to name a few: 12 criminals based on Chinese Zodiac (very improbable in real life. Haha), or fantastic martial arts of 2 princesses (how old were these 2 princesses, they seemed ageless).
Laziness was Gu Long's specialty in writings. He had so many promising ideas, he could not delivered all his promises in a story. I read an adaptation graphic novel of this Legendary Twins that could delivered the promises to readers better than the original novel.
So if you read this novel, I believe you could get some ideas/wishes that you could do better than the author. Especially the last third of the novel.
July 17, 2017
It's actually a five-star book for me, but minus two stars because I couldn't stand Su Ying, one of the most annoying female characters I've come across ever.
The author was being a hypocrite when he described the Hua sisters through the twins' father Jiang Feng as 'beautiful but inhuman', because Su Ying is just a variant of that - only that her skills are intellectual instead of physical in nature. She's as much of an egotist as the elder Hua sister in my opinion.
I'm all for guys going for smart girls, and smart girls should get the respect and love they deserve, heck I'm even working in the medical profession so logically I should identify with Su Ying and empathise with her more, but this MarySue's character development left much to be desired really. The book literally deteriorated after her appearance for me. The fawning words the author used whenever he's describing her were nauseating.
When I was a teenager and bought a choose-your-own adventure PC game based on this story (I was such a fangirl lol) I always chose all the other female leads over her, and obviously the game makers knew what the customers wanted - many, like me, must have wanted to see all the alternate endings (which really were much better!)
The author was being a hypocrite when he described the Hua sisters through the twins' father Jiang Feng as 'beautiful but inhuman', because Su Ying is just a variant of that - only that her skills are intellectual instead of physical in nature. She's as much of an egotist as the elder Hua sister in my opinion.
I'm all for guys going for smart girls, and smart girls should get the respect and love they deserve, heck I'm even working in the medical profession so logically I should identify with Su Ying and empathise with her more, but this MarySue's character development left much to be desired really. The book literally deteriorated after her appearance for me. The fawning words the author used whenever he's describing her were nauseating.
When I was a teenager and bought a choose-your-own adventure PC game based on this story (I was such a fangirl lol) I always chose all the other female leads over her, and obviously the game makers knew what the customers wanted - many, like me, must have wanted to see all the alternate endings (which really were much better!)
February 19, 2020
Nhân dịp Netflix chiếu Handsome Siblings nên ngồi đọc lại Tuyệt Đại Song Kiêu. Vốn định kể lể là ngày xưa đọc kiếm hiệp khổ lắm, vất vả lắm chứ không sướng như giờ, gác giò trên recliner vừa uống beer vừa cầm Kindle đọc khoẻ re. Nhưng cái đó ắt ai cũng biết rồi, than làm gì, rảnh lại nói về chuyện đọc kiếm hiệp, và Kim Cổ.
Giờ mình ít đọc kiếm hiệp (hay tiên hiệp), nhưng cái kiểu ghiền, bứt rứt đọc xong chương này phải ngấu nghiến chương khác, thì hơn chục năm trước như thế, giờ vẫn như thế. Như hiện tại, lớn rồi, trách nhiệm hơn rồi thì không có kiểu bỏ ăn, bỏ học, thức đến sáng trùm chăn đọc cho xong, nhưng cứ có thời gian rảnh là đọc, đánh LOL trong lúc lên bảng đếm số cũng mở Kindle ra đọc tiếp. Mình là người hay chán, chỉ có sở thích kiếm hiệp là đến giờ, tuy ít chạm vào, nhưng mỗi lần chạm vào là bị cuốn đến đê mê, có lẽ sẽ chẳng bao giờ chán (thứ còn lại, dĩ nhiên, là em-).
Rồi bàn về Kim Cổ. Mình mê Cổ Long hơn. Những truyện của Cổ Long mình đọc nhiều lắm, những bộ đỉnh kiểu Đa tình kiếm khách, hay Hoả tính Tiêu Thập Nhất Lang, Võ Lâm Ngoại Sử... đọc đi đọc lại, nhiều thì gần chục, ít thì vài ba. Ngày xưa, mình dĩ nhiên nghĩ Cổ Long hay hơn Kim Dung. Tầm vài năm trước thì ngược lại, giật mình nhận ra Kim Dung cao hơn một bậc. Giờ thì không quan tâm nữa, Kim Dung hay Cổ Long, mình đều biết ơn, vì đã để lại cho đời biết bao tuyệt phẩm, gắn liền với một quãng tuổi xuân tươi đẹp của mình, và vẫn tiếp tục gắn kết tới bây giờ. Những bộ của Kim Cổ, mình biết rằng, sẽ dăm ba năm lại lôi ra đọc lại một lần, và khi đọc vào rồi, sẽ không bao giờ thấy chán...
Giờ mình ít đọc kiếm hiệp (hay tiên hiệp), nhưng cái kiểu ghiền, bứt rứt đọc xong chương này phải ngấu nghiến chương khác, thì hơn chục năm trước như thế, giờ vẫn như thế. Như hiện tại, lớn rồi, trách nhiệm hơn rồi thì không có kiểu bỏ ăn, bỏ học, thức đến sáng trùm chăn đọc cho xong, nhưng cứ có thời gian rảnh là đọc, đánh LOL trong lúc lên bảng đếm số cũng mở Kindle ra đọc tiếp. Mình là người hay chán, chỉ có sở thích kiếm hiệp là đến giờ, tuy ít chạm vào, nhưng mỗi lần chạm vào là bị cuốn đến đê mê, có lẽ sẽ chẳng bao giờ chán (thứ còn lại, dĩ nhiên, là em-).
Rồi bàn về Kim Cổ. Mình mê Cổ Long hơn. Những truyện của Cổ Long mình đọc nhiều lắm, những bộ đỉnh kiểu Đa tình kiếm khách, hay Hoả tính Tiêu Thập Nhất Lang, Võ Lâm Ngoại Sử... đọc đi đọc lại, nhiều thì gần chục, ít thì vài ba. Ngày xưa, mình dĩ nhiên nghĩ Cổ Long hay hơn Kim Dung. Tầm vài năm trước thì ngược lại, giật mình nhận ra Kim Dung cao hơn một bậc. Giờ thì không quan tâm nữa, Kim Dung hay Cổ Long, mình đều biết ơn, vì đã để lại cho đời biết bao tuyệt phẩm, gắn liền với một quãng tuổi xuân tươi đẹp của mình, và vẫn tiếp tục gắn kết tới bây giờ. Những bộ của Kim Cổ, mình biết rằng, sẽ dăm ba năm lại lôi ra đọc lại một lần, và khi đọc vào rồi, sẽ không bao giờ thấy chán...
August 3, 2011
Enjoyed the book. As usual in the Kung Fu realm, this book had a cast of completely unrealistic but highly interesting characters. (The hero, Little Fish, was especially fun to read about, and even the people in "Villain's Valley" had their likable traits.) It also had an interestingly unique premise, where two brothers are separated at birth and brought up to kill one another (naturally they do not know that they are brothers). Unavoidably, they become friends - closest friends who are doomed to die at the hands of one another (I can't imagine this happening anywhere except in the wuxia universe). One wonders how all could be resolved in the end, and after wading through six (albeit very enjoyable) volumes to reach the climax, it unavoidably disappoints a little (which is what knocked this from a 4 star rating to a 3.5 star). But still, an enjoyable read, and one of Gu Long's best known novels.
(sorry for all the parenthesis!)
(sorry for all the parenthesis!)
April 10, 2014
OMG! I found it! :D
in middle school I was totally in love with the story, but I forget the title of it. I just found it again... :D
in middle school I was totally in love with the story, but I forget the title of it. I just found it again... :D
June 23, 2013
The fourth star is given to Ying Su.
October 7, 2025
The novel is way too long for its own good. It has so many excellent moments and memorable characters but few readers would have sufficient stamina to sustain the more-than-one-thousand pages of the book and not losing some of the joy from such moments and characters, especially when there are numerous nonsense sequences and annoying characters (like Giang Ngọc Lang and his equally annoying father) throughout the book. The book is so long that several characters with potential for better development and involvement in the plot, and some "side" plotlines are totally wasted as well, like Thiết Chiến or Thần Tích đạo trưởng. Even the "finale" of most of the titular Giang hồ thập ác is so underwhelming and anti-climatic. I repeatedly mention the length of this book simply due to my frustration that this book could have been so much better had it been reduced into a more concise and not all-over-the-place one like this, that this book would have been easily among the best wuxia novels ever written and totally comparable to the best by Kim Dung, yet Cổ Long had to serialize that and thus make it as long as possible for, what else, monetary purpose. Still, one heck of a wuxia novel!
February 6, 2024
分别在移花宫和恶人谷这两大神经病院长大的俩孩子，一个性格活泼开朗，另一个成了绝种好男人，这充分证明了阿德勒的个体心理学观点，即自我是由个体的自主意识所创造，而非成长环境。
“世上绝没有一个少女能抵挡江枫的微微一笑，绝没有一个英雄能抵挡燕南天的轻轻一剑”结果江枫还没来得及施展魅力就因为功夫太烂早早出场，而燕南天开头就被人群殴至瘫痪。呃，写作不走心就是浪费才华！所以江枫到底长啥样啊，太为难我贫瘠的想象力了，求展开细讲！
结尾显得仓促，伏笔太少。尤其最后苏樱霹雳拿下小鱼儿，只因她“绝代风华“，把其分分合合，爱得死去活来的前妻及前女友们衬托成智障。
与金庸的写作相比，古龙更为轻快，少了宏大叙事，多了逍遥快活。
总而言之，一个精彩的有关少侠成才的江湖故事，鲜衣怒马少年时，马行如龙破雪飞。
“世上绝没有一个少女能抵挡江枫的微微一笑，绝没有一个英雄能抵挡燕南天的轻轻一剑”结果江枫还没来得及施展魅力就因为功夫太烂早早出场，而燕南天开头就被人群殴至瘫痪。呃，写作不走心就是浪费才华！所以江枫到底长啥样啊，太为难我贫瘠的想象力了，求展开细讲！
结尾显得仓促，伏笔太少。尤其最后苏樱霹雳拿下小鱼儿，只因她“绝代风华“，把其分分合合，爱得死去活来的前妻及前女友们衬托成智障。
与金庸的写作相比，古龙更为轻快，少了宏大叙事，多了逍遥快活。
总而言之，一个精彩的有关少侠成才的江湖故事，鲜衣怒马少年时，马行如龙破雪飞。
July 23, 2025
早年看的，2024年给男作者改低分
December 24, 2011
I had seen bits and pieces of the story on TV but I never really knew the whole story. It was a fun, past-paced read. The one star was taken off for the extremely fast-pace - I feel like at many instances the author didn't really develop the characters before killing them off. Also, many of the characters he got to develop were rather flat. It was fun but I don't plan on reading another novel from this author.
November 16, 2025
古龙第一武侠小说，没有之一
十二星宿，十大恶人，江别鹤，江玉郎 的人物设计很棒，很有人性，不是一味奸诈阴险，更不是武功高深莫测；有偷窥，有爱被虐待，有易容，有吃人肉，有坐轮椅，很前卫的人物设计
武功最高的有燕南天vs邀月，怜星，但老实说戏份不多
主角江小鱼vs 花无缺 性格鲜明，可爱，天下第一聪明人还真的比武功高强+高富帅 还好用。 爱人苏樱vs铁心兰也还可以。
一本可以再三回味的书
十二星宿，十大恶人，江别鹤，江玉郎 的人物设计很棒，很有人性，不是一味奸诈阴险，更不是武功高深莫测；有偷窥，有爱被虐待，有易容，有吃人肉，有坐轮椅，很前卫的人物设计
武功最高的有燕南天vs邀月，怜星，但老实说戏份不多
主角江小鱼vs 花无缺 性格鲜明，可爱，天下第一聪明人还真的比武功高强+高富帅 还好用。 爱人苏樱vs铁心兰也还可以。
一本可以再三回味的书
October 16, 2014
Amazing read!
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