Reviews for Classic of Mountains and Seas

The average rating for Classic of Mountains and Seas based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-01-09 00:00:00 Sherri Carter I feel slightly weird about giving 4 stars to a book which I found so confusing. It was an enjoyable kind of bafflement, though - delight, wonder, and the thrill of the unexpectedly strange. I love good modern renditions of classics, put in words which a current reader can really get into, but even more I love a translation which preserves the remote and alien strangeness of the past.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-08-22 00:00:00 Mrs C Phillipps I was given a copy of this a few years ago and started reading it then but gave up. Just reading the English translation is difficult as it is so repitious and full of nonsense word and doesn't have all that pictures. However, if you read it alongside the Chinese version it is great as it explains all the complicated vocabulary you'd otherwise spend ages having to look up in a dictionary. As such it was a great resource and recommended for students of Chinese.