>>Noble House remains one of my favorites and Shogun was my late wife's all-time favorite TV series.
>>Thank you for reminding me. I'll re-read some of his books.
Clavell certainly had the gift of the gab. Those giant doorstop books flew off the shelves. It's not the same these days when the electrons flow into the Kindle. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
