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  @p07a4 сағат бұрын

  I just finished this (the English translation). It was a pleasant concise read with little fluff and 90% of the paragraphs have a necessary function. For its length, it is remarkably good at giving ample insights into each character’s psyche; even the minor characters (Ishihara, Otama’s maid and okusan’s maid) were given enough liveliness. The author is as shrewd as Suezo for (in my opinion cleverly) choosing a narrator’s perspective which allowed for the aforementioned psychological insights and (yet) at the same time he did have to put effort into making a coherent sequential arrangement (narrator → Okada → Suezo → the father → Otama → Otsune etc.) before he could execute the main plot. One may notice the lack of Okada’s psychological insights, but this shortcoming is perfectly implicitly justified and (un)executed. I highly recommend this short story for the reasons above even if the reader isn’t familiar with much Japanese culture and history at all (as I am not).

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  @raluca_si_atatКүн бұрын

  Really nice review. I enjoyed it fully!

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  @pandittroublejr12 күн бұрын

  👍🏾😃😃

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  @Lee-mh4mm17 күн бұрын

  I had the privilege of reading this in Portuguese and it's one of my favorite books ever, so much in few words, this is what a book should be. From what you read, the translation doesn't seem to lose a lot.

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  @basilyeldho21 күн бұрын

  Hi im new to reading literature and i found yukio mishima and was interested in reading his books. Which do u think i should start with. I saw some people recommend to start with 'Confessions of a mask'.

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  @vincentandrew4544Ай бұрын

  that second one is perhaps the worst one Ive ever seen

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  @basskick666Ай бұрын

  Kinokunoya.....great bookshop

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  @deirdre108Ай бұрын

  The Odyssey helps and so does Hamlet but not completely necessary especially if you read Ulysses along with Ulysses Annotated by Gifford and Seidman. It does a great job of annotating all the allusions and references in the novel. It also tracks page/line with the Gabler edition of the novel.

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  @antonyreyn2 ай бұрын

  You were dead but you are alive again now, I'm dead now it's my turn, I'm dead and you hear me singing from my tomb.

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  @user-cz8gi2om3n2 ай бұрын

  I've read the Iliad, Odyssey, and the bible all cover to cover. Gotta get on Shakespeare.

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  @antonm52672 ай бұрын

  for some reason i just did not like Norwegian wood 😭 tho, i started with wind up bird and that was probs one of the best books i’ve read of all time.

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  @angelacoley33782 ай бұрын

  Enjoyed very much

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  @jboyd90622 ай бұрын

  Classy Jaickets 😀

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  @ToReadersItMayConcern2 ай бұрын

  Your channel is phenomenal! Do you think you'll come back someday?

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  @jboyd90623 ай бұрын

  Classy 🎉

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  @user-hc8ki1rl4t3 ай бұрын

  This book was a life changer for me. The author went so deep into social reality, eveyone else is still a distant second.

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  @thumuslol3 ай бұрын

  Pretty insane take when you said that not developing Zauner's husband is good because he is white instead of for some legitimate reason like conciseness or thematic focus. That's just racist dude. Also, you say that Zauner's father "as a white man has a huge looming shadow over her life story". Would her father not have influence over her if he was not white lol? Are you implying that white fathers being important to their nonwhite kids' stories is bad? wtf. Outside of what Zauner includes in the memoir, we don't understand her and father's relationship so to say that more focus on it would have been "incredibly toxic" is presumptuous at best. My book review "recommendation" is to be a little less racist.

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  @GreyEyedAthena3 ай бұрын

  nice

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  @gordonbgraham3 ай бұрын

  "Snow was general all over Ireland...falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling like the descent of their last end upon all the living and the dead" It is about the temporality of life and that we are all connected in the continuum of time and space...even the horse who ends up in the glue factory...We are the dead

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  @cameronsummers-borchard4413 ай бұрын

  the disrespect to forbidden colours which was my first Mishima read and one of my favourite books of all time. Yes, it is long but it so lyrical and the characters are so fleshed out that they feel palpable

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  @jinz03 ай бұрын

  BONZAIII 🎇

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  @jboyd90623 ай бұрын

  Classy 🙂

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  @ghostie14983 ай бұрын

  argyle is def deserving of its rating 😭 that book is ATROCIOUS

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  @seanoconnor28653 ай бұрын

  Impressive overview. Thanks.

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  @jboyd90623 ай бұрын

  Bonnie ✨️

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  @sunshine689353 ай бұрын

  It's crazy how our preferences are so different

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  @fictionalme07803 ай бұрын

  I think your taste is off lol That first one was fun and the last one was amazing.

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  @sunshine689353 ай бұрын

  Last one was kinda cool

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  @totemraven3 ай бұрын

  1st and last deserve more love

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  @christinagowda36263 ай бұрын

  Excellent review. I never that about the father and Peter that way. Great point about how well Michelle unapologetically put Korean women at the forefront.

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  @evelyndonaghy20073 ай бұрын

  what are their titles and authors?

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  @dylanstevens88603 ай бұрын

  i- that last one was very disturbing 💀

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  @Chibiforlife3 ай бұрын

  i like how our answers where completely different

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  @JaxLovesKorn3 ай бұрын

  The first one?? 😭😭

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  @jboyd90624 ай бұрын

  Braw Jaickets 😀

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  @user-bu3tn1pf1d4 ай бұрын

  I LOVE MADELINE MILLER BROO

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  @Bella3-cj4ws4 ай бұрын

  lol that’s so ironic but I definitely do that to every book I see!😂

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  @jboyd90624 ай бұрын

  Braw Jaickets. 😃

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  @kaytayday4 ай бұрын

  That's what I do. That's what I always do. That's what I'm always gonna do

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  @rjmoney94 ай бұрын

  I just read Life for Sale, it is the first Mishima I have read (only thing I could find in the bookstores near me). I’m glad to hear that it’s not considered very good, because I’m very disappointed. I’ll shoot for one of his better novels next time.

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  @jboyd90624 ай бұрын

  Braw jackets! 😃

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  @chefbubbles42585 ай бұрын

  How dare you commit acts against the law that has been set in stone for many generations not to judge a book by its cover. You commit unlawful acts of book cover judging. Not even caring to look at the back to read the description. Instead you choose to go against what has been laid in the laws of citizens for countless times. A true rebel, vile creature. You will be punished for this sin.

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  @rebekahm66725 ай бұрын

  Just read Bluest Eye and Beloved, now I have to read the rest

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  @suvuru5 ай бұрын

  Oh god now i want to wach tatami time machine again…

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  @yuki55825 ай бұрын

  I finished this book I really like it 🥰. That's my first time reading book from Mori Ogai❤

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  @1Gam5 ай бұрын

  ❤

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  @forgottenfkr5 ай бұрын

  Only have to disagree with the Tatami Time Machine that art is 10/10

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  @NopeNopeNopeYeap5 ай бұрын

  Love Mishima! Thanks for the video

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  @tricksforlife88275 ай бұрын

  Bro really took "Judge a book by it's cover" to heart

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  @LeslieBlennerhassett-dx7rm5 ай бұрын

  Superb cameo of Joyce’s Dublin at turn of last century!