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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima

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leontia's review against another edition

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4.25

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alanakuni's review against another edition

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dark tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

misogynistic and cruel
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asililydying's review against another edition

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2.75

mishima's novels have been some of the biggest disappointments, as he was mythologized as this psychotic esthete romantic who took his art so serious he killed himself publicly in order to realize it. In reality, of course, like most of the 'master oeuvre' or canon, there is very little worthy of analysis here beyond how absolutely misogynistic people are, and how much vile shit we call 'art' as just an excuse to be raging fucking losers; I thought there was something interesting in Yukio Mishima, and there still is on a metaphysical level, but the man's work is boring, trite, sexist, and most hilariously, puffed up as this monumental vision of the world. Perhaps this is just a dud, and Golden Pavillion was a different kind of terrible.
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owlribbon's review against another edition

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dark

4.0

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_izzy_thorne_'s review

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challenging dark emotional slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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madi_oasis's review against another edition

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dark tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Suspenseful and tense throughout, the world-building of this small, sleepy town in Japan was second to the sickening downward spiral of the MC as he grapples with grandiose ideas of masculinity and aggression. However, the level of gore and cruelty hits you like a freight train and felt way too gratuitous to find palatable. 
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amclauchlan98's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

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arctic_benji's review

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adventurous dark tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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nadir's review against another edition

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medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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kyoe983's review against another edition

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dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I need to get around to re-read this because it's just one of those books that stuck with me regardless of what I was going through. It has a presence like it silently stares at me in the back of my head. A world-view-changing Novella, but that only if you relate to the situation and ideology that Noboru or Ryuji present.
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