Carlos Guevara

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Journey to the West encapsulates within itself the entire mythic allure of the East. In a word, Journey to the West is the East. That is why the story of the famous Great Sage Monkey occurs and reoccurs throughout Asian Culture, including, quite obviously China, but also Korea and Japan and many other East Asian countries. The novel crystalizes all of the cultural and religious elements which comprise the bulwark of Eastern Culture. It never ceases to amaze me how this marvelous work of art continues to captivates readers even to our contemporary era. Without question you cannot understand everything which Eastern Culture is all about without reading and appreciating this stupendous work of art!

Journey to the West

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This television series is absolutely RIDICULOUS. The whole premise to the series, and the arbitrary way it is executed, makes the whole thing unwatchable to me. None of the characters are particularly interesting and the whole idea of a webtoon character and a real person falling in love is just so incredibly absurd. I would not waste your time watching this poorly written and poorly acted K-drama. The whole thing made me feel nauseous instead of entertained. This K-drama is totally overrated and unlikable. I can't believe people actually wasted money and time making this preposterous television series.

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Ironically, this K-drama was in large part about writing and about being a writer, but that is precisely why it was unsuccessful -- the writing was HORRENDOUS. The main reasons why the writing of this K-drama was so terrible is because it was full of ridiculous contradictions. I will give you some examples of what I mean. Firstly, the heroine of the drama confesses her love to the main male character who simply freezes and does not utter any response, after trying for more than half the drama to attract the heroine's attention. It is just unbelievable that a person would react in such an unresponsive manner after his first love confesses mutual love for him. That hero's unresponsive behavior was carried out in order to artificially create suspense. But nothing about that was suspenseful other than being ridiculously contradictory. Secondly, after the heroine complains that the hero will not respond to her love confession, and after the hero does eventually admit that he loves her too, the heroine then goes on to abandon the hero and leave him behind in the countryside while she returns to the city. Why would a person confess her love to a man and then abandon him after she complained to him earlier that he was not being responsive to her initial love confession. Again, this abandonment of the hero by the heroine was done in order to create artificial suspense, which is not suspenseful just ridiculously contradictory. I would advise other viewers not to waste their time on this poorly written K-drama which lacks a coherent plot. It is not worth your time to view this K-drama.

When the Weather Is Fine

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