All About Gu Long

It’s all about ladies, booze and mysteries for Gu Long and his most famous character, the Bondesque swordsman detective, Chu Liu-xiang.  “When you hear ‘martial arts novels,’ you can think of several famous writers of Chinese literature.  But when you hear ‘mystery martial arts novels,’ only one name […]

Smooth, Smoother, Smoothest

I get sucked in very easily by books that are smooth on the surface. If a book has glossy enough writing and a well-paced storyline, then I’m almost always a sucker for it. But when a book also has something intriguing going on underneath the surface, then I […]