A review by paul_fiction
Sun & Steel by John Bester, Yukio Mishima

dark informative inspiring mysterious reflective fast-paced

5.0

Read during summer break before clerkship (4th year)

What poisonous prose lol. This book somehow made me want to work out more.

What fucking unhinged philosophy:

You should have a muscled body before death. Bulging muscles are not just aesthetic.. they’re a form of self-mastery, against time decay. (Based.)

Like any true piece of Japanese literature, it’s drenched in death. Death death death death.

>Death as Affirmation of Life and believes avoiding death is cowardice.

>The book romanticizes self-sacrifice and sees a heroic death as the highest expression of purity (talks heavy about glorification of suicide pilots during the war)