Been listening to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in podcast form.
http://www.3kingdomspodcast.com
Random thoughts follow:
• Cao Cao is a dudebro.
• I keep flashing back to Larry Gonicks' portrayals of key figures and events in his brilliant Cartoon History of the Universe II
• Specifically, Liu Bei is somebody I recall being a profane and rough but highly charismatic dude in Gonick's retelling, but the podcast makes him into somebody who's clever and ubiquitous, but pretty colorless.