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House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata
2.0
Having finished this book I have to say it isn’t a favourite. I found it a chore to get through and had a difficult time to get into it. Not a book I would be re-reading in a hurry.
The House of Sleeping Beauties
I found it a bit creepy in the perverted sense, I didn’t enjoy this at all although I can empathise with the narrator and how his past encounters were rekindled by the beauties and the feelings he gets from their memory. I enjoyed this passages but I just couldn’t get over the creepiness of his feelings when with the beauties. It felt like a drag and repetitive.
One Arm
A weird read, luckily very short.
Of Birds and Beasts
Sadly another story I didn’t enjoy or care much for. Short and sweet thankfully!
It is a shame really because this was a book I was really looking forward to reading. The title story was said to be an inspiration for Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ Memories of My Melancholy Whores, a book I read and enjoyed a few years ago. Having enjoyed that I expected to enjoy this too, alas not the case. I think I will give the book a re-read.
The House of Sleeping Beauties
I found it a bit creepy in the perverted sense, I didn’t enjoy this at all although I can empathise with the narrator and how his past encounters were rekindled by the beauties and the feelings he gets from their memory. I enjoyed this passages but I just couldn’t get over the creepiness of his feelings when with the beauties. It felt like a drag and repetitive.
One Arm
A weird read, luckily very short.
Of Birds and Beasts
Sadly another story I didn’t enjoy or care much for. Short and sweet thankfully!
It is a shame really because this was a book I was really looking forward to reading. The title story was said to be an inspiration for Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ Memories of My Melancholy Whores, a book I read and enjoyed a few years ago. Having enjoyed that I expected to enjoy this too, alas not the case. I think I will give the book a re-read.