ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS has some pretty stunning character development

I love drilling back into foundational texts and discovering the complexity that made them into foundational texts. For instance, it's really funny to read all the 'radical' retellings of The Iliad that are like, "The Greeks are a bunch of barbarians! The Trojans were civilized and wonderful!" and then go back into The Iliad and realize, wait...that's a…