Just finished Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa. I try not to use the word epic when describing something, because if everything is epic then nothing is truly epic. But, to simply put it this book was epic. For a book spanning close to 1,000 pages it is amazing how little fat there was to it. Every page, paragraph, and sentence moves the story along. Every character has a true purpose. If I had only one problem it is that I will never truly get to experience this book for the first time again.