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# A Hero Born: The Definitive Edition

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## Customer Reviews

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    Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting…
  

*by E***. on Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2022*

A enjoyable adventure.  The story moves through locales and sets up the struggle of good and evil.  The translation is sometimes awkward in context for some passages but that is normal for translated texts.  It is still very fluid and consumable.  The fight scenes are littered with elaborate moves, all given elaborate names (as they are the fighting style for a specific family), and are descriptive and imaginative.  As a lover of old Kung-fu movies from the 70s and 80s, this book felt familiar.  Some of the scenes of characters gliding through the air or performing acrobatic moves with grace and ease as they engage, chase or meet clearly reflect that “Kung-Fu” movie style I am used to seeing.  The encounters follow, what I could imagine in my mind visually in the kung-fu movie style, and the events all lead to the epic showdown.  Since this is the first of a series, I am curious to see how this epic moves on.  I was attracted to it because it was described as the “Chinese Lord of the Rings”.  Indeed it is epic in nature and the host of characters is grand.  The supernatural aspects are there and you really want to root for the hero.  This is a great beach read or afternoon trek for those who need a little classic kung-fu and high spirited adventure.  I saw there is a subtitled series that is available.  I may have to check it out to see how they presented this story in an episodic format.  Cheers!

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    Too late, but not too little
  

*by P***L on Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2018*

When I first heard about the publication of the English translation of this book and such translation is the first of its kind, I was shocked. I never bothered to check if there were English versions out there because I used to read them in Chinese for at least a dozen times. How could this happen? I am glad this classic can finally reach the western readers. The original book was written more than fifty years ago. So the English version is too late, but not too little.Disregarding Chairman Mao's Little Red Book that every Chinese had to own several copies for obvious reasons and thus was published a trillion times in China, it is no doubt that Jin Yong's fifteen martial arts novels are the number one selling books for the last half century in China. It is a rarity to find a Chinese who has never read Jin Yong or watched a movie/TV series adapted from his books. I personally grew up with it, and Jin Yong's martial arts literature has become a common part of the Chinese consciousness and psyche.The Condor Heroes are the first installment of the fifteen stories penned by Jin Yong, and is probably the most widely circulated among the fifteen. That's why I call it the foundational piece of the modern martial arts literature. Without it, there would be no Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan, no Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, or no Kung Fu Panda. Without it, several generations of Chinese would suffer a huge deficit of literary imagination.Jin Yong, like J R Tolkien or J K Rowling, are grand masters of building otherworldly worlds filled with mesmerizing plots and characters. I still remember the days when I begged my classmates in elementary school to borrow and have the Condor Heroes just for one night, and I burned the midnight oil literally because there was no electricity in the early 1980s. Those nights were the happiest reading days of my life. When I started working and received my first paycheck, one of the things in my priority list was to buy and own Jin Yong's full-set books.I took one star off because of the translation. I have great sympathy for the translator because many concepts in Jin Yong's world is so Chinese. For instance, "nine yin skeleton claw" just does not sound terrorizing as the Chinese original. Still the translator did a admirable and quality job.

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    Great Fun
  

*by S***E on Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2019*

I was introduced Jin Rong and Hero Born as a Chinese language class in Beijing and then was offered a review copy by St Martins. Fate brought the book to me.Early in the introduction is is said that the whole series extends over some 12 books, which was almost enough to make me put the volume down. But, I did not. Set in China at the end of the Sung Dynasty, about 1300 CE, we enter a chaotic political period with nomadic tribes pressing the Sung and the Sung fighting for its life. But, even the defenders of the Sung are not united as we learn in A Hero Born, broken down into different schools of martial arts. All of which seem easy to take offense and fight for perceived honor. In short, scarcely a page goes by without some display of martial arts.A Hero Born is adventure on a grand scale. While the fight scenes seem to come on every page, Cha's canvas is wider than a simple fight. The action spans most of China and into the nomadic lands. Comparison to The Three Musketeers or Cooper's Leatherstocking series seem a better match for scale and breadth.Louis Cha (Jin Rong) is a foremost writer of martial arts novels. It is wonderful to have access to his work in English. As for me, I am ready for the next 11 books in the series.

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