{"id":16632,"date":"2017-06-13T15:45:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T20:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16632"},"modified":"2017-06-13T15:45:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T20:45:09","slug":"book-report-kung-fu-3-superstition-by-howard-lee-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/13\/book-report-kung-fu-3-superstition-by-howard-lee-1973\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Kung Fu #3: Superstition<\/i> by Howard Lee (1973)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0446764663\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0446764663&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/kungfu3.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\"><\/a>With all the Buddhism I&#8217;ve been reading lately, it only makes sense to go back to what might actually be the source of my interest in it of late: reading <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?s=kung+fu+lee\" target=\"_new\">books based on the television show <em>Kung Fu<\/em><\/a>.  Imagine my surprise that my research indicates it&#8217;s been two years since I read one.  Maybe it&#8217;s not the source of my recent (and recent means &#8220;within the last year&#8221;) reading in the philosophy\/religion.  Or maybe these things are slow percolating for me.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0446764663\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0446764663&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_new\">this book<\/a> is the third in the series.  In it, Caine is railroaded in a small town, charged for a crime he did not commit, and is sentenced to labor at a local silver mine.  In a related thread, a gunman seeks vengeance for some bad hombres who killed his brother and kidnapped his wife.  It turns out that they have bought a mine with the ill-gotten gains, and that the woman went willingly.  So as Caine tries to Buddhistically manage himself at the mind under a sadistic overseer and to show the near-beaten other &#8216;inmates&#8217; how to buck up but not necessarily rebel, the gunman meets up with a couple of women from a travelling show going to the mine to find the fiance of one of the women.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s your setup.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fun read, quick, laden with Buddhist pop sayings instead of bullets ripping meat.  I&#8217;m afraid I only have one more of these from whatever book sale I found them, so I&#8217;ll run out of them before I run out of Executioner paperbacks.  And that makes me a little sad.  But, on the other hand, I have another yet to read.  Soon, or in two years.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=stlbrianj-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0446764663&#038;asins=0446764663&#038;linkId=97f46640287f5a7d318c808281786d38&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true&#038;price_color=333333&#038;title_color=0066c0&#038;bg_color=ffffff\"><br \/>\n    <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the Buddhism I&#8217;ve been reading lately, it only makes sense to go back to what might actually be the source of my interest in it of late: reading books based on the television show Kung Fu. 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