I couldn't really get into them...for two major reasons.
1. A good deal of the terms are somewhat obscure, and the way sentences are structured can get overly confusing some times...at least in the versions I've had available to me.
2. They seem, to me, to lack focus...often going on about something or other that doesn't really involve anything related to the plot itself. I'd like at least some point to be there...
Then again, maybe I'm reading into things too much, or just not enough.
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That sounds a heck of a lot like the Three Kingdoms books (also translated under the title of Romance of the Three Kingdoms), they spend more time on family history than they do on the actual three kingdoms...