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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
This book scared me and gave me nightmares. Also, it confused me because part of it sounded like bad erotica and parts of it sounded like good dark writing. It was all pretty predictable but in that awful-car-wreck sort of way, you can't look away even though it disgusts you. I'm glad he didn't spell out the last scene. It's enough to imagine it.
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Very interesting book.
I could do without the details of ships and randomly over exaggerated descriptions of everyday mundane things as poetry. Even if these exaggerated descriptions make the book hard to read, it adds to its beauty I assume.
As a story, it is not too interesting and needs a lot more context to fully appreciate it. This book is often regarded as a metaphor for the changing perception of masculinity in Japan at the time and served as social commentary.
A lot of themes went right over my head and I had to read up on a lot of things to make it all click in place.
This book made me feel dumb in the best way possible.
I could do without the details of ships and randomly over exaggerated descriptions of everyday mundane things as poetry. Even if these exaggerated descriptions make the book hard to read, it adds to its beauty I assume.
As a story, it is not too interesting and needs a lot more context to fully appreciate it. This book is often regarded as a metaphor for the changing perception of masculinity in Japan at the time and served as social commentary.
A lot of themes went right over my head and I had to read up on a lot of things to make it all click in place.
This book made me feel dumb in the best way possible.
If you like Freud, you're surely gonna enjoy this book...
slow-paced
My first read for #januaryinjapan. I'd been meaning to read some more Mishima for a while now — ever since reading and loving [b:Spring Snow|62793|Spring Snow|Yukio Mishima|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1360239609l/62793._SX50_.jpg|2295485] — and this challenge gave me the perfect reason to do so.
I so enjoy Mishima's style of writing — somehow spare and yet poetic all at once. That said, no one warned me that perhaps as the mother of a fourteen-year-old son, this book might be extra troubling. It really was. This is not a fun or light or easy book to read. There were two parts that were troubling enough that I almost stopped reading. By the way, if you are thinking of reading this book, content warnings for voyeurism, animal abuse, and violence.
BUT. Like I said, the atmosphere of Mishima's writing is so magnetic. As are his themes of masculinity, identity, and purpose. His books exist in that transitory space of Japan after WWII, as it was being opened to the West, and the tension between those two cultures. And specifically in this book, add a group of highly intelligent teenage boys under the sway of a budding psychopath.
This dark little book, while upsetting, is quite compelling. An enthralling read.
I so enjoy Mishima's style of writing — somehow spare and yet poetic all at once. That said, no one warned me that perhaps as the mother of a fourteen-year-old son, this book might be extra troubling. It really was. This is not a fun or light or easy book to read. There were two parts that were troubling enough that I almost stopped reading. By the way, if you are thinking of reading this book, content warnings for voyeurism, animal abuse, and violence.
BUT. Like I said, the atmosphere of Mishima's writing is so magnetic. As are his themes of masculinity, identity, and purpose. His books exist in that transitory space of Japan after WWII, as it was being opened to the West, and the tension between those two cultures. And specifically in this book, add a group of highly intelligent teenage boys under the sway of a budding psychopath.
This dark little book, while upsetting, is quite compelling. An enthralling read.
dark
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes