Lol, try reading ROTK or The Water Margin.

I raise you War and Peace. All those names are Russian and sound similar (unless you're Grindy I guess)

Russian names ain't got **** on Chinese names.

Yue Jin and Yu Jin

Liu Bei and Liu Biao

Liu Chan and Liu Zhang

Yuan Shao and Peiyuan Shao

Zhang Liao and Zhang Liang

Li Ru and Li Su

Li Su and Lu Su

Zhang Wei and Jiang Wei

All different people.

And those are just their regular names. Each person also has a formal name. For example, Liu Bei is also known as Yuante, and you better remember that, 'cause Lo Kuan Chung (nowadays the pinyin is Luo Guanzhong) just uses whichever name he wants whenever the **** he feels like.

And ROTK also has hundreds of characters to keep track of, so... yeah.

Return of the King?!

Nah, Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Aka, Dynasty Warriors: The Novel

Oh god no you're right. They also do that formal/informal name thing in Russia though, and they also all have second first names or something

I read The Tale of Genji

It was probably the most time I ever invested in a book just to be able to say I’ve read it

I remember being intensely shamed by an old Russian woman I worked with when discussing Crime and Punishment for referring to Raskolnikov as Rodion.

My mother once knew an old Russian woman who claimed to be Anastasia and that's the extent of my Russian knowledge.