Buck's translation is garbled, from what I've heard, but there's a thoroughly readable scholarly translation that came out relatively recently. I think it's by

Buck's translation is garbled, from what I've heard, but there's a thoroughly readable scholarly translation that came out relatively recently. I think it's by the same author who did the two-volume _Romance of the Three Kingdoms_ -- it certainly has the same cover style, and is hard to miss on Amazon.