Intro to Shōgun- Coleshōgun blog post 1.

            Shōgun, as far as I can tell from the summary on the back and what I've read so far, is a book about a ship's crew from Europe which washes up on the shore of Japan, or The Japans, as the crew calls it. The crew is caught up in a power struggle between local powers, and must fight to survive as well as learn to adapt to their harsh new environment. Apparently, they must also fight to make sure there isn't a single scene that goes below at LEAST an R rating, for reasons I won't dwell on. Just assume from here on out that for every scene I mention, there's about six I don't. The main character, an Englishman called Blackthorn, is in charge of the eight other crew-members that survived the journey and the locals. He was the ship's navigator, not the captain, but for whatever reason has all the power, he has superhuman torture-withstanding abilities that make all the Japanese people say, wow, that guy is so strong, and all the women in the story want to ward off the evils of PG-13 with him, and there is a scene where the entire female population of the village congregates to watch him take a bath. I  think the author of the book may have been a ship's navigator at one point. The local ruler, called the Daimyo, seeks to control Blackthorn in order to eradicate Christianity somehow. From my first impression of the book, knowing that the author would write in a character as blatantly... blatant as Blackthorn, I expect some hackneyed jibber jabber about the power of Christ winning out over the Japanese barbarians, although many of the Japanese have complex and plans that make saying hello like a game of chess, which is the only thing at which Blackthorn is not a god. So, that is my first impression of Shōgun. An interesting story, even if the main character is a complete Mary-Sue.

Due to reading this on a kindle, I have no page numbers. I do, however, have a progress bar which tells what percentage of the book I have read, so I will read 25% more of the book at every read-by date.