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I'm about halfway through an abridged, simplified retelling of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" for young children -- I've just reached the Battle of Red Cliffs.

Zhuge Liang is the best, but Cao Cao is sort of the character I have the most sympathy for, because I'm always going "No, it's a trap, don't do it!"

It's really not the best book to read in a highly abridged version because it's so hard to keep track of all the characters and all the plot machinations, and who's a good guy and who's a bad guy, probably more so than if it were a full length modern language translation (such a thing must exist, right? For when I'm fluenter?) but I'm entertained by it nonetheless. And it has adorable little cartoony illustrations.

The Red Cliff movie has Takeshi Kaneshiro in it, so I probably should watch that immediately.