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I finished The Return of the Condor Heroes (神雕侠侣) which is a set of four really, really, really, really, really good Chinese books. The set before that was The Legend of the Condor Heroes, which all of my friends have already heard me blab about, and its Chinese name is 《射雕英雄传》. Obviously it’s by the same author, 金庸.
He wrote like 15 sets of books, some short and some long, and TLotCH and TRotCH are only two of them. My mom already bought me three or four more sets and I’m so excited, cause his books are superior. But now my problem is my profile pictures cause most of them right now are characters I like/main characters from The Legend of the Condor Heroes, but now that I’ve read TRotCH, I need to change some to characters I like/main characters from that.
But then once I read the other ones (they are still in China probably), I have to change more and I don’t have enough avatars for that. So I’m just thinking making an avatar that reads “金庸 books FTW” or something.

Oh, and here’s a quick passage from 《射雕英雄传》:
郭靖抢上一步，拜伏在地，哭道：“我。。。我。。。我五位恩师都已不在人世了。” 丘处机大吃一惊，喝问：“什么？” 郭靖哭道：“除了大师父，其余五位都。。。都不在了。”
这两句话只把丘处机听得犹如焦雷轰顶，半响做声不得。他只道指顾之间就可与旧友重逢欢聚，哪知蓦地里竟起获胜不测。他与江南七怪虽聚会之时甚暂，但十八年来肝胆相照，早已把他们当作生死之交，这时惊闻噩耗，心中伤痛之极，大踏步走到栏杆之旁，望着茫茫湖水，仰天长啸，七怪的身型面貌，一个在脑海中一晃而过。他转身捧起铜缸，高声叫道：“故人已逝，要你这劳什子作甚？” 双臂运劲 ，猛力往外摔去。扑通一声大响，水花高溅，铜缸跌入了湖中。
他回头抓住郭靖手臂，问道：“怎么死的？快说！” 郭靖正要答话，突然眼角瞥处，见一人悄没声的走上楼头，一身青衣，神情潇洒，正是桃花岛主黄药师。郭靖眼睛一花，还道看错了人，凝神定睛，却不是黄药师是谁？

And a passage from 《神雕侠侣》：
武氏兄弟在旁观斗，见朱师叔的一阳指变幻无穷，均是大为钦服，暗想：“朱师叔功力如此深厚强劲，化而为书法，其中又尚能有这许多奥妙变化，我不知何日方能学到如他一般。” 一个叫：“哥哥！” 一个叫：“兄弟！” 两人一般的心思，都要出言赞佩师叔武功，忽听得朱子柳“啊”的一声惨叫，急忙回头，但见他已仰天跌倒。
这一下变起仓卒，人人都是大吃一惊。原来霍都认输之后，朱子柳心想自己以一阳指法点中他穴道，这与寻常点穴法全然不同，旁人须难解救，于是伸手在他胁下按了几下，运气解开他的穴道。那知霍都穴道甫解，杀机陡生，口里微微呻吟，尚未站直身子，右手拇指一按扇柄机括，四枚毒钉从扇骨中飞出，尽数钉在朱子柳身上。本来高手比武，既见输赢，便决不能再行动手，何况大厅上众目睽睽，怎料得到他会突施暗算？霍都若在比武之际发射暗器，扇骨藏钉虽然巧妙，却也决计伤害不了对方；此时朱子柳解他穴道，与他相距不过尺许，这暗器贴身斗发，武功再高，亦难闪避。四枚钉上淬以西藏雪山所产剧毒，朱子柳一中毒钉，立时全身痛痒难当，难以站立。

Oh, and by the way, there’s English version of those too, but they definitely won’t be as good as the original Chinese version, because when you translate some book, it loses some of that nice feeling and things like that.

So that’s it for today, signing off now. Bye!