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4.04 AVERAGE
4.04 AVERAGE
It had some good moments but I never was able to really get into it. The characters weren't that compelling to me and I found myself more interested in the main character's best friend than in the main character and his love story.
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-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
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Yıl bitmeden daha güzel bir kitap okuyamam sanmıştım ama çok yanılmışım. Bu yıl okuduğum en güzel kitaptı. Mişima'nın insan ruhunu en ince biçimde işlemesine hayran kaldım. Bereket Denizi serisine kesinlikle devam edeceğim ancak araya birer kitap almaya karar verdim çünkü yüreğim dayanmayacak başka türlüsüne. Kitaba özellikle ikinci yarısında kapıldım, her şey bir su gibi ilerledi. Olaylardan ziyade iç hesaplaşmalarla benim de yüreğim tüm karakterlerle birlikte kavruldu. Umduğum gibi gelişmeler olmasa da korktuğum gibi de bitmedi ancak çok derinden sarstı beni. Bir aşk hikayesi ile Japonya'nın modernleşmesi ve onun da getirdiği farklı görüşler eşlik ediyor hikayeye. Mişima'nın hayat hikayesi ile birleştirince ne kadar tadında değerlendirmeler yaptığını görebiliyoruz. Farklı düşünceleri uca kaçmadan, belli belirsiz ama taşı gediğine oturtarak eleştiriyor. Yazarın dilini çok ama çok sevdim.
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
This is an intelligent and wise book, but it is also mildly boring and a drudge to get through.
While it is all that, I was particularly drawn to the parallels between the nurse in R&J, and Tashima in this book, the layers and complexities of Satako and Kiyoaki, and the palpable lines evoking Kiyoaki's sadness and hopelessness, especially towards the end. I do have to say that I much prefer R&J to this, as the denouement was anticlimactic and unsatisfying to me-- I knew *it* was coming, but *it* was not particularly tragic and gutwrenching. I did not want to bang the book against my head in frustration or throw it away in agony. I am open-minded though, because there is a sequel to this.
This may have been one of those cases where it was the wrong book at the wrong time. I just sort of went in without knowing anything and kept reading on autopilot mode. I think the main issue was the length-- so many pages could have been trimmed down. I appreciate it for what it is, but it's also a little boring.
While it is all that, I was particularly drawn to the parallels between the nurse in R&J, and Tashima in this book, the layers and complexities of Satako and Kiyoaki, and the palpable lines evoking Kiyoaki's sadness and hopelessness, especially towards the end. I do have to say that I much prefer R&J to this, as the denouement was anticlimactic and unsatisfying to me-- I knew *it* was coming, but *it* was not particularly tragic and gutwrenching. I did not want to bang the book against my head in frustration or throw it away in agony. I am open-minded though, because there is a sequel to this.
This may have been one of those cases where it was the wrong book at the wrong time. I just sort of went in without knowing anything and kept reading on autopilot mode. I think the main issue was the length-- so many pages could have been trimmed down. I appreciate it for what it is, but it's also a little boring.
« just now i had a dream, i’ll see you again. i know it, behind the falls »
challenging
emotional
reflective
relaxing
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book is the first used book I owned while I was in the US. It’s an old 1972 torn book with notes on the pages. Inside, I found a tucked old photograph of a couple standing in-front of a van.
Spring snow.. I liked the style of writing and the opinions of the characters on different matters. I felt that I can truly hear to Mr. Mishima’s voice all the way to the end. The last third of the book is the best where most of the plot intensified and human nature revealed its ugly truth.
I’m ready now to read the next book of sea of fertility series.
Spring snow.. I liked the style of writing and the opinions of the characters on different matters. I felt that I can truly hear to Mr. Mishima’s voice all the way to the end. The last third of the book is the best where most of the plot intensified and human nature revealed its ugly truth.
I’m ready now to read the next book of sea of fertility series.
I found that exceedingly boring until it wasn't. For long periods Kiyoake went about life as a self-absorbed teenager. And that was that. There was some lovely imagery and description but the book did not pass much beyond that point. Eventually the doomed love is requited and the pace quickens. Society and obedience to the Emperor are paramount concerns, even to the point of the whole downfall of the couple being due to the boy's reticence to speak. Given a chance to declare his interest in Satoko, he doesn't and suddenly the lovers are ill-fated outcasts
Spring Snow did read like some weird incel rant at times. There are many, many passages where we are told how jaw-droppingly handsome the boy is. His position in life is close to that of the author and he is clearly a cipher for Mishima. These parts are hilarious when viewed from that regard. Misihima was a model, among other things, and here we have him telling us in no uncertain terms that as a teen, he was simply breath-taking!
But the incel rant is that the boy ends up dying for his love as pure as the driven snow, while the girl goes to a convent and the women do not heed his pleas. Satoko bears the blame in the affair more than any other, this despite it was Kiyoake who denied her, and lied about retaining a blackmailing letter. Society and its scheming women are presented as destroyers of Kiyoake.
Spring Snow did read like some weird incel rant at times. There are many, many passages where we are told how jaw-droppingly handsome the boy is. His position in life is close to that of the author and he is clearly a cipher for Mishima. These parts are hilarious when viewed from that regard. Misihima was a model, among other things, and here we have him telling us in no uncertain terms that as a teen, he was simply breath-taking!
But the incel rant is that the boy ends up dying for his love as pure as the driven snow, while the girl goes to a convent and the women do not heed his pleas. Satoko bears the blame in the affair more than any other, this despite it was Kiyoake who denied her, and lied about retaining a blackmailing letter. Society and its scheming women are presented as destroyers of Kiyoake.