笑傲江湖

Before I came back to the valley, I was in Hong Kong and bought the third edition of 笑傲江湖. For those of you unfamiliar with it, it's a Chinese martial arts novel. Ask any of your Chinese friends and they can fill you in.

A big fan and admirer of 金庸, I've read all his books many, many times over and over. Lost many hours of sleep in the wee hours of the night doing it. A relative purist when it comes to 金庸 - don't watch the TV and film renditions (aka. gross distortions) of his work.

This third edition of 笑傲江湖 is part of an iniative by the author to revise all his works. I might be slightly biased coming in since I've been so used to the second edition.

My favorite part about the new edition. When 令狐沖 is learning to play music from 任盈盈 (then not having revealed who she actually is), there're a couple new paragraphs of addition that analyzes 笑傲江湖之曲. I love this part. It's a little hard to describe in English, but read it and let me know what you think.