Besides the instant large print available on my tablet, the footnotes system (and boy, does this need its footnotes and annotations) is brilliant: just click on the little blue number, and the footnote appears as a handy popup, departing at the next click. So rather than rereading to refresh my failing memory, I poked around Amazon and found this. I had read, some years ago, the now-classic abridged translation by Arthur Waley titled Monkey, which gives the gist of the tale, but I was curious about what all had been left out. I also see by my Netflix that there is a new Chinese movie of The Journey by the same director who gifted us with the also deeply gonzo Kung Fu Hustle. I was led back to this by revisiting, this month, an anime/manga version from the early 00s of the adventure, Saiyuki by Kazyua Minekura, which may not even be the most gonzo version ever, though I suspect it's up there. The star rating system is really not appropriate for classic books of this sort, read for curiosity and education as much as pleasure, but have a somewhat random 4.
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