Monkey King

Journey to the West

De: Wu Cheng'en, Julia Lovell - editor, Julia Lovell - translator, Julia Lovell - introduction, Julia Lovell, Gene Luen Yang - introduction

Narrado por: Robert Wu

A Chinese Lord of the Rings and one of the all-time great fantasy novels--which Neil Gaiman has said "is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people"--now in a thrilling new translation

A shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest for eternal life, Monkey King is one of the most memorable superheroes in world literature. High-spirited and omni-talented, he amasses dazzling weapons and skills on his journey to immortality: a gold-hooped staff that can grow as tall as the sky and shrink to the size of a needle; the ability to travel 108,000 miles in a single somersault. A master of subterfuge, he can transform himself into whomever or whatever he chooses and turn each of his body's 84,000 hairs into an army of clones. But his penchant for mischief repeatedly gets him into trouble, and when he raids Heaven's Orchard of Immortal Peaches and gorges himself on the elixirs of the gods, the Buddha pins him beneath a mountain, freeing him only five hundred years later for a chance to redeem himself: He is to protect the pious monk Tripitaka on his fourteen-year journey to India in search of precious Buddhist sutras that will bring enlightenment to the Chinese empire.

Joined by two other fallen immortals--Pigsy, a rice-loving pig able to fly with its ears, and Sandy, a depressive man-eating river-sand monster--Monkey King undergoes eighty-one trials, doing battle with Red Boy, Princess Jade-Face, the Monstress Dowager, and all manner of dragons, ogres, wizards, and femmes fatales, navigating the perils of Fire-Cloud Cave, the River of Flowing Sand, the Water-Crystal Palace, and Casserole Mountain, and being serially captured, lacquered, sautéed, steamed, and liquefied, but always hatching an ingenious plan to get himself and his fellow pilgrims out of their latest jam.

Monkey King: Journey to the West is at once a rollicking adventure, a comic satire of Chinese bureaucracy, and a spring of spiritual insight. With this new translation, the irrepressible rogue hero of one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature has the potential to vault, with his signature cloud-somersault and unerring sense for fun, into the hearts of millions of Americans.

Enjoyed every bit of it. Translation🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Translation was excellent. Voice work brought each character to life, 10/10 would recommend. TY.

God I love this book

I swear this is my favorite religious story ever. Monkey is the best character ever.

So entertaining!

The story was totally engaging, and the narrator did a great job of bringing the characters to life!

Tone

It was fun, the voice actor has enthusiasm, very good for kids I think, extra word to meet length

Great story, voices are kind of annoying though

I love this story but the voice for the Monkey King is REALLY obnoxious. Takes a lot of getting used to.

amazing story, even better narrator.

this book is well known in popular for a reason, it has a great story, amazing characters and the narrator who reads this book for you is just amazing. he makes great voices and really brings the book to life. 10 out of 10, must buy.

I couldn't find a translation for years

It was great to experience a version of the original story that Sun Goku (Dragon Ball) and Monkey (Enslaved: Journey to the West) came from.

I now recognize what was taken from this story and used as a tribute to enrich the other stories.

That said, I gave the performance a 1-star because this narrator has about as much character range as I do and, at the time of recording, should never have attempted to voice a story with such a huge cast of characters.

I think, in time, I will get other versions of the story to see the differences between them and try other narrators of this great story.

Great narration

I think there is a lot of people who had problems with Monkey's voice but I personally loved all of the narration. There is no monotony and you can easily identify who is saying what.

Fun and hilarious story

Had a great time along the journey with monkey and company, very fun and funny story

Fantastic!

Loved the story and the narration! The introduction was very helpful. Very enjoyable, would recommend it to everyone I know.