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    <body><![CDATA[I'm giving 5 stars to the novel that I think this is. I've never read that novel. What I <em>have</em> read is the most bungled pile of cockney jabberwocky ever suffered to print--probably the single worst translation, of anything, that I have read, ever. It is so unbelievably bad. It reads like they cranksh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36328587">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oe’s first novel (1958), written when he was only twenty-three, is sometimes compared to Golding’s Lord of the Flies.  The resemblance is that both books deal with boys who are isolated and forced upon their own resources.  Here the resemblance ends.  The boys in Nip the Buds are delinquents who...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65262529">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It’s a little crazy - the title of this book, don't you think? A little nuts. Asking me to shoot the kids! The kids!!! You run around with an axe, bury it left and right in brain matter, why don't you. And while you're at it, ruin my flowers. Nutz!!! Say, what? The kids <em>are</em> like the buds? It's wro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76385325">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sparse wording, short sentences, but catches so much about people. Oe has a good insight on behavior, the characters write themselves. Riveting on many levels. <br/>While reading this I was browsing again through The Fountain Head by the late Ayn Rand.<br/> <br/>It struck me how each perceived th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75864696">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Definitely had a lot more potential than what it ended up being.  I think my biggest gripe with this book is that I am not reading it in the native language (Japanese) and the translator's choice of vocabulary is awkward and feels inexact in numerous places creating a narrative that is often obtuse....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65497883">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really awesome, and deeply upsetting at the same time.  I liked how Oe balanced the complexity of the shady narrator with the type of desperate actions of supposedly &quot;decent&quot; people.<br/><br/>It was an interesting way to write a war book: to write around the war, to write about the war t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47728420">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story is set at the end of WW II, when a group of &quot;bad kids,&quot; Japanese reform school boys, are forced to march to different camps.  Nobody wants them and they are terribly mistreated and eventually abandoned by the villagers during a plague.  The boys form their own village, trying to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31579959">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book is like Japanease version of Lord of the flies by William Golding. Dramatic, brutal, true. Boys fighting for survival with nature and peasants who think the boys spread a disease. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I (heart) [Oe]! [A Personal Matter] is still my favorite of his, though.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this book would take a Lord of the Flies streak, but it didn't. The two oldest boys have natural friction between them but as one of the chapter names hints, there is &quot;solidarity of the abandoned.&quot; At least... I won't give away the book. <br/><br/>The narrarator is one of the b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3000163">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't understand it yet. It's, as advertised, reminiscent of both &quot;The Plague&quot; and &quot;Lord of the Flies,&quot; while being sparely Japanese and brutal. <br/><br/>Finished. Depressing. Vaguely creepy. Good? I'm not sure. I wasn't particularly attached to any of the characters, but I di...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2349563">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This wasn't the book for me. I'm not the most sensitive to images and symbolic writing and I think that's why I wasn't particularly drawn into this short novel. I read &quot;A Personal Matter&quot; by Oe, and did enjoy that, but this work is more political and charged, perhaps. I'm much too far remo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30697404">more...</a>]]></body>
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