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    <body><![CDATA[Short review: The Master of Go, go nowhere fast...<br/><br/>Long:<br/>An account of a legendary game of 'go,&quot; an ultra-complex Japanese strategy board game that has been compared to chess but which, evidently, is infinitely more complex. The game occured between a sort of an old grand master...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47451444">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought the Master of Go was a nice book. Nice. I can't say that it thrilled me to pieces, but then, every book doesn't have to be thrilling. My enjoyment may have been hindered by a lack of understanding of the game of Go. I gather it's one of those &quot;minute to learn, lifetime to master&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55143490">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Kawabata's novel is a semi-fictionalized account of a Go match that took place in the late 1930s between an undefeated Go master and his challenger.  For a non-Go player (like me), the book will be more of an abstract character study of the differences and conflicts between the two players.  Kawabat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45862818">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A brilliant book, looking at the last competitive game of the elderly twenty-first holder of the Honinbou title against a young challenger. The novel balances scenes that develop characterization (both during and outside the game) with the exigencies of a plot that hinges upon the measured placement...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47712215">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the most boring books ever. My version had an intro on how the book was a commentary on the Old Japan versus the New Japan of pre WWII years.  Generally, books with agendas turn me off for many reasons.  Even outside of this I think the subtleties were lost on me though.  I prefer more imagin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50050558">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading this book was meditative for me. I find games such as chess and go relaxing and invigorating. They force you to clear your head of extraneous noise while still thinking creatively, strategically and abstractly. I would argue, however, that having a good read on your opponent is also part of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53806562">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>“I could not pretend to know much more about Go than Kume did; but even so it seemed to me that the unmoving stones, as I gazed at them from the side of the board, spoke to me as living creatures. The sound of the stones on the board seemed to echo vastly through another world.”</em><br/><br/>This ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37333806">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[El Go es un juego de origen chino que los japoneses han elevado a &quot;arte&quot;, una mezcla entre el arte, la filosofía y el ritualismo occidental.<br/><br/>Soy demasiado torpe en el Go como para poder entender todas las palabras de Kawabata, sólo puedo mirar a los personajes con cierta envid...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29072327">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, I still don't know if the problem is Kawabata's writing or Seidensticker's translating, but I have a feeling it's the latter. This is the second Seidensticker translation I've read (&quot;Snow Country&quot; was the first), and the lack of flow is very noticeable. There's no rhythm or melody to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25605419">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm just learning Go myself and maybe that's why I was so interested in this book.  Also, it is very relaxed and slow moving and I like that sort of thing.  I know very little about Japanese culture, or Asian culture more generally but I have always wanted to know more and so there is a third reason...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7158035">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Elin Melchior: I recommend this book to people interested in the psychology behind games and in Japan.  It's a novel tied very closely to an actual Go game played in Japan in 1938.  Yasunari Kawabata (who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968) does a wonderful job of showing the clash between ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44806161">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book does something that few books about games can manage.  He takes an historical game, and includes all of the moves of that game, and makes these moves a core part of a great novel that deals with many themes.  I can definitely understand that this book may not be very appealing to someone w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56151403">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't want to spend so much time reviewing a boring book, so I'll keep this short. If you need to read something by kawabata, just pick up Snow Country. Don't bother with this one. It's a fast read, but not overly interesting. I'd like to say the characterization and settings make up for the borin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70558095">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this text. It drew me in completely and I even had to pull out the Go set to work go over some of the game positions. Fascinating and powerful. They say that there was no satisfactory explanation for Kawabata's suicide.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[the story itself is alright, but it does give a good picture into the world of professional Go players.  I also enjoyed the play diagrams showing the progress of the game in play as the story play out.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Yasunari Kawabata also wrote another book for which he won a Noble Prize in literature.  Snow Country; I would recommend that book, not this one unless you like Go.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The greatest bit in this book is when the Go master talks about &quot;waves.&quot; He s talking about waves of the spirit, vaguely similar to trains of thought.  Waves of thought might be better.  The whole work is one wave after another, kind of like an ink drawing might be composed of a series of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4257974">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[a good perspective on old and new japan]]></body>
    
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