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The Ghost Bride
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I see dead people....
Li Lan, the motherless Chinese maiden, whose opium-addicted father has betrothed her to the deceased son of a wealthy family, accidentally finds herself roaming the Plains of the Dead - a terrifying afterworld where ghosts wait around to be judged, punished or reborn to new lives.
Within the ghost world, she embarks on a supernatural adventure, filled with highly imaginative, colorful characters including horned demons, corrupt judges and shape-shifting otherwordly beings.
What is it about this ghost world that seemed to create uncanny parallels with the living? Indeed!
Yangsze Choo has created hauntingly fantastic worlds of the living and dead. All the elements that have fascinated me in Chinese folklore and mythology are in this novel- traditional Chinese rituals, superstitions, the ominous afterlife, fabled creatures and the portended judgement day. A spellbinding tale that is, at once, mysterious, suspenseful, romantic and otherworldly intriguing.Recommended for the readers who like that type of thing.
Li Lan, the motherless Chinese maiden, whose opium-addicted father has betrothed her to the deceased son of a wealthy family, accidentally finds herself roaming the Plains of the Dead - a terrifying afterworld where ghosts wait around to be judged, punished or reborn to new lives.
Within the ghost world, she embarks on a supernatural adventure, filled with highly imaginative, colorful characters including horned demons, corrupt judges and shape-shifting otherwordly beings.
What is it about this ghost world that seemed to create uncanny parallels with the living? Indeed!
Yangsze Choo has created hauntingly fantastic worlds of the living and dead. All the elements that have fascinated me in Chinese folklore and mythology are in this novel- traditional Chinese rituals, superstitions, the ominous afterlife, fabled creatures and the portended judgement day. A spellbinding tale that is, at once, mysterious, suspenseful, romantic and otherworldly intriguing.Recommended for the readers who like that type of thing.
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Reading Progress
May 9, 2013
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to-read
May 9, 2013
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August 11, 2013
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Started Reading
August 11, 2013
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12.77%
"I'm intrigued by the mythology so far, but I need to go to sleep now and maybe dream of wealthy dead bridegrooms..."
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47
August 12, 2013
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20.38%
"On pg. 65 - " Malaya was full of the ghosts and superstitions of the many races that people it."
Interracial ghost networking in the afterworld sounds so esoteric. In folklore heaven here!"
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75
Interracial ghost networking in the afterworld sounds so esoteric. In folklore heaven here!"
August 14, 2013
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52.99%
"Li Lan's human ghost self is wandering about the Plains of the Dead, a ghostland similar in concept, I think, to Tibetan Buddhism's bardo, and as imaginatively designed as the land of Oz. So eerily good!"
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195
August 15, 2013
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65.76%
""What is it about this ghost world that seemed to create uncanny parallels with the living?"
Maybe the dead don't know they're dead?"
page
242
Maybe the dead don't know they're dead?"
August 17, 2013
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Finished Reading
February 10, 2014
– Shelved as:
chinese-myth
February 10, 2014
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ghosts
April 23, 2014
– Shelved as:
fiction
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Thanks, Jas! TGB would make a unique "halloween ghost story" , though:)
Thanks, Jas! TGB would make a unique "halloween ghost story" , though:)"
I'm on it. I'm going to borrow a friends copy. I'll snatch it up tonight and maybe position it at the last book of ghost month.
Thanks, Delee. My art studio app. gets a workout, a very de-stressing hobby.
Thanks so much, Puddlyduck..It was easy to imagine the scene from the novel. That picture is a composite of 5 different overlays and re-colored to fit the novel's description of the scene. Doodling on the ipad is fun!
I mostly use: ArtStudio by Lucky Clan; Superimpose by Pankaj Goswami.
Very addictive.