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A review by tysuckz
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
dark
sad
slow-paced
2.25
Honestly everyone else seems to have totally got this and liked it but it definitely wasn't for me. It felt so flat, entirely anticlimactic.
The only redeemable quality is probably the absurdity of it? I thought it was quite interesting how the boy spied on his own mother, but outside of that I couldn't have cared less. Lots of stuff seemed so ... pointless to have mentioned.
Like.... why did we need to know that Fusako did that silly little background check on her new found love? It beared absolutely ZERO significance and just felt like a whole 15 pages worth of.... filler ??? Normally I don't mind filler and it's never enough to recall, especially since it isn't usually a lot in comparison to the book, but need i need to have read about it and her sly digs at her famous friend when the book itself was a mere 181 pages long? Felt weird.
Probably would read something by Mishima again, but this one just wasn't the book for me!!
The only redeemable quality is probably the absurdity of it? I thought it was quite interesting how the boy spied on his own mother, but outside of that I couldn't have cared less. Lots of stuff seemed so ... pointless to have mentioned.
Like.... why did we need to know that Fusako did that silly little background check on her new found love? It beared absolutely ZERO significance and just felt like a whole 15 pages worth of.... filler ??? Normally I don't mind filler and it's never enough to recall, especially since it isn't usually a lot in comparison to the book, but need i need to have read about it and her sly digs at her famous friend when the book itself was a mere 181 pages long? Felt weird.
Probably would read something by Mishima again, but this one just wasn't the book for me!!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death