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    <body><![CDATA[This story makes me wonder if Mishima wasn't just some big jokester, and him committing seppuku was his final prank on the world. I think the biggest mistake people make in regards to Mishima is taking him way too seriously. <br/><br/>Who says that he has to kill his friends? He's not even sure if...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30069493">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was hung over, and riding the L train, and this energetic lucid meditation on the ritual suicide of a couple was so vibrant that I nearly vomited all over the haircut next to me.  Mishima is bad as hell, and his own life was just as interesting as this ode to duty, ritual, and honor.    ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This short story is breathtaking. I read it in college and I was brought to tears reading it on the subway.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not a book your girlfirend should read, unless they like seppiku..]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Patriotism</em> is said to be Mishima's favorite story; there is little doubt it is one of his greatest - sublime in all its nuances, and compelling in its vision of finality.  It is a fascinating look into the world of death and eroticism - a rare work of beauty, seduction, and sensuality.  How does Mis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44461129">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <date_added>Sat Jan 26 21:04:29 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>a little history on the great mishima..<br/><br/>FROM WIKIPEDia:<br/><br/>&quot;On November 25, 1970, Mishima and four members of the Tatenokai, under pretext, visited the commandant of the Ichigaya Camp - the Tokyo headquarters of the Eastern Command of Japan's Self-Defense Forces. Inside...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13684294">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[You can't really give a book less than one star.  It doesn't merit a big fat zero.  It is very much better than zero.  But if you can't go more than five for the absolute best book you have ever read, then I don't think that this one quite reaches one.  I hope some one reading this understands my qu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43415709">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An incredibly straightforward story of a samurai and his wife who are ordered to commit seppuku and then do so. Most of the story is devoted to their last night together and the preparations they go through prior to their ritual double suicide. This story is notable mostly because Yukio Mishima hims...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/645562">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p><strong>An honor-bound Japanese officer and his wife's final night together before committing double suicide.</strong>   </p>]]>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Seppuku. Disturbing. The author later took his own life in this manner.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Patriotism]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p><strong>An honor-bound Japanese officer and his wife's final night together before committing double suicide.</strong>   </p>]]>
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  <date_added>Thu Nov 08 17:13:22 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the short story that eventually defined the Mishima mystique.  Which is the manner how he died and why.  Well, the why we'll never know, but one could pick up the clues that are in this short story as well as look as his life in whole.  He was a man who I think thought himself as a performer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8858174">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <date_added>Thu Aug 30 16:02:59 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is where Mishima shines- Western culture vs. traditional Japanese values, honor, duty, and death. It's a real insight into bushido and ritual suicide. The way Mishima writes about suicide makes death and gore synonymous with life and beauty. Reading this and seeing his feelings on the subject m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5383237">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p><strong>An honor-bound Japanese officer and his wife's final night together before committing double suicide.</strong>   </p>]]>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jan 31 11:16:39 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an intense, flawlessly written story of a soldier and his love of wife and country, with country first and foremost, and the extent he was willing to go to express this supreme loyalty. Delves into intense tender romantic  bond between husband and wife, in a delicate and sensual manner. Qui...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14175467">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p><strong>An honor-bound Japanese officer and his wife's final night together before committing double suicide.</strong>   </p>]]>
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  <date_added>Wed Apr 23 06:52:55 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Apr 23 07:04:11 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The short book certainly puts into perspective the American view of patriotism put on display by small flags out of car windows and country songs. Not, obviously, that we only show patriotism that way - but I'm fairly confidant that ritual suicide remains a scarce practice.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p><strong>An honor-bound Japanese officer and his wife's final night together before committing double suicide.</strong>   </p>]]>
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  <date_added>Thu Dec 06 13:06:44 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Dec 06 14:18:04 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read it in class... students very reactive to ideas of honor, suicide, culture.  I found it strangely beautiful how Mishima managed to weave ideas of life, beauty, passion, death, fear,love in a sensual, affecting way.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p><strong>An honor-bound Japanese officer and his wife's final night together before committing double suicide.</strong>   </p>]]>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 20 17:39:03 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Dec 17 06:07:59 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A quick, gut-punching story about tradition, obligation, and honor.  Read this in an hour and then realize when your partner asks you to do the dishes, clip his toenails, host a dinner, or spank his ass,  your getting off easy.]]></body>
    
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  <average_rating>4.14</average_rating>
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    <![CDATA[<p><strong>An honor-bound Japanese officer and his wife's final night together before committing double suicide.</strong>   </p>]]>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[people who are into samuri stuff.]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue Apr 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Apr 02 07:45:35 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Apr 09 13:49:02 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[the sex scenes....nice. <br/>the book in a whole (all 57 pages) were beautiful. <br/><br/><br/>have to read this for class, I don't want to buy it and you can't find it in the Portland public library system! lame!!]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p><strong>An honor-bound Japanese officer and his wife's final night together before committing double suicide.</strong>   </p>]]>
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  <date_added>Fri Jun 29 21:43:58 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jun 29 21:45:28 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A dear friend and I categorize people as either &quot;getting it&quot; or not, in regards to this book. <br/><br/>For us, it is a litmus test. This is a story of love, honor, devotion, and sacrifice. <br/><br/>Absolutely gorgeous. ]]></body>
    
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  <average_rating>4.14</average_rating>
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  <description>
    <![CDATA[<p><strong>An honor-bound Japanese officer and his wife's final night together before committing double suicide.</strong>   </p>]]>
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  <date_added>Sat Sep 06 21:21:33 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 26 02:53:24 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the very first Mishima material I came across, just a short story in one volume, picked up on a whime while hanging out in the &quot;m&quot; section of the bookstore.  Best impulse buy I ever made.]]></body>
    
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