Shōgun
1975 • 1,218 pages

Ratings225

Average rating4.2

15

I don't know whether to give the book 3 or 4 stars. It's very drawn out but very interesting for the first 600 - 700 pages but it ultimately disappoints in the end because it feels like Clavell didn't know how to end it.

The end is basically the thoughts of one of the main characters on how he would like the story to end - nothing about the actual story signaled an ending. It's like he hit his quota of pages and then wrote the ended. Which for me ruined the whole book.

Good book, bad ending.

May 10, 2010