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    <body><![CDATA[the character of my life... Toru! toru was a demon...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Stunning ending to a stunning series. Whenever I try to explain what actually happens in this book, it sounds lame, but after 900 pages or whatever Mishima gets you to let your ironic guard down about Buddhist philosophy/reincarnation/etc. The back cover compares it to Proust, which I'm sure is righ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14455585">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Seemingly more rushed than its three exquisitely composed predecessors, the last of the tetralogy def packs a wallop.  Um, big thanks Yukio Mishima!  and then you went off to disembowel yourself in the name of ideals. Should I be speechless? <br/><br/>Should I be deferential or appreciative --is i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23589993">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The darkest, emotionally sickest book I've ever read.  There's not a happy thing about it, but not in the self-flattering tortured artist way, this is true true misery, and the author gutted himself with a long knife only hours after finishing this, the last volume of his tetralogy The Sea of Fertil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4797855">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not the best of The Sea of Fertility series (which includes Spring Snow, Runaway Horses and The Temple of Dawn)but still an interesting read.  The first three books are amazing (tragic and extremely beautiful) and the complete series should be read by anyone who appreciates great literature.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a haunting conclusion to the tetralogy that could not have ended more perfectly. Just like Honda, we are finally betrayed by reason and thus by our own beliefs. This final message is so prescient, so apt to present day that it's actually sad.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this is the last book in a tetralogy, but works as a standalone I think.  It's dark and weird and if you like that, you will like his writing.  Mishima's got an interesting bio if you have free time to research him.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[last novel of the tetrology..the final, shameless and crass suicide of post-wwii japan and a cold cold vision of cosmic emptiness<br/><br/>should read the previous three before arriving ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[a shockingly pure portrait of evil. nasty, enthralling, religious, wary, naked, clean, somehow inevitable. by far the most direct and boldly modern of mishima's tetralogy.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Yukio Mishima thanks you for ready his brilliant and somewhat masturbatory magnum opus, The Sea of Fertility, by cockslapping you in the face with this finale.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was attached to the first and second books however at the end of this book I found a bit too political. Much like Mishimas trials in his last few days.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This has to be one of the top ten (maybe top five) books I've ever read.  You have to read the rest of the Sea of Fertility first, though.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A beautiful and disturbing book. I still don't entirely understand it. ]]></body>
    
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