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  <title><![CDATA[Runaway Horses (The Sea of Fertility: Book 2)(Vintage Classics)]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1969</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Yukio Mishima]]></name>
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    <name><![CDATA[Erin]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 25 11:37:16 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Second book of Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetralogy.  Centered on the themes of westernization and loss of traditional society in 1930s Japan, and the resulting dissent amongst right wing, traditionalist factions.  Also, disturbingly focussed on the manliness and honor of <em>seppaku</em>, the ritual act of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6776363">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6690806">
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    <name><![CDATA[Stefan]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Netherlands]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Sep 24 03:56:29 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Terrific follow-up to Spring Snow, all part of the Sea of Fertility tetralogy. Especially considering Mishima's mindset at the time, this story goes into the fanaticism of a young man as he sees Japan sink away into corruption. Some characters from the previous novel re-appear, not least of which Ho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6690806">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70813744">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Fri Sep 11 00:09:07 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 14 09:40:21 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Si le premier tome de la Â« mer de fertilitÃ© Â» mâ€™avait bien plut, il sâ€™agissait nÃ©anmoins que dâ€™une banale (mais belle) histoire dâ€™amour contrariÃ©. Le second tome devant sâ€™attacher Ã  la politique et plus particuliÃ¨rement au fanatisme politique, alliÃ© Ã  lâ€™exotisme du bushido jâ€™Ã...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70813744">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8260468">
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  <date_added>Thu Oct 25 21:47:25 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 25 21:50:39 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My dean gave me this book as a prize of winning writing competition. This book is about the Japanese people and the Samurai who was under the power of the shoguns..<br/><br/>A good story but a bit unreadable, so you have to often use your knowledge and logic]]></body>
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    <review id="60704269">
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  <date_added>Mon Jun 22 17:48:17 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 09 19:47:31 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Why is this my favorite Mishima novel? It espouses views on society that I completely disagree with. Perhaps in it I see Mishima more clearly through it than I in his other novels, or perhaps I see more clearly the PR image of himself that Mishima wanted to project to the world.<br/><br/>Runaway H...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60704269">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19737887">
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    <name><![CDATA[Chris and Yuri]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jul 24 11:11:53 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Runaway Horses" title="Runaway Horses">Runaway Horses</a> is the second book in <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Yukio Mishima" title="Yukio Mishima">Yukio Mishima</a>'s four-novel epic, &quot;The Sea of Fertility.&quot; On November 25, 1970 -- the day he completed the last book of &quot;The Sea of Fertility&quot; -- Mishima and his comrades attacked a Japanese military garrison using only swords, trying and faili...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19737887">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4087805">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Aug 04 18:38:04 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 04 18:54:05 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fascinating to compare and contrast against Spring Snow. <br/><br/>Crazy love is reincarnated as crazy ultranationalism: aren't they the same, anyway? What does it mean to save someone's life? What is devotion and trust? How do you make/keep yourself pure? How do you deal with your illusions comin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4087805">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43390458">
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  <date_added>Sat Jan 17 15:06:12 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 17 15:15:00 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really wanted to like this book--and there's lots to like sbout the language, the description of Japanese landscape, shinto rituals and kendo matches...but ultimately I found the characters uncompelling. Explores conservative radical youth, loyalists to the emperor obsessed with dying a perfect de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43390458">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50479525">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ophelia]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Mar 29 14:13:51 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is more than just a novel, it's pure poetry full of beautiful imagery and breathtaking descriptions. It centers around honor and purity in a way most Westerners are not accustomed to thinking, which only makes it the more beautiful. The main character's struggle to mantain what might be co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50479525">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40621822">
    <user id="593973">
    <name><![CDATA[Fran]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Dec 28 10:24:40 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Despite Mishima's problemmatic and complicated politics, I continue to be impressed by his work.  This second book of his &quot;Sea of Fertility&quot; tetralogy is again brilliant, an exploration of the growth of fascist militarism in Japan and the experiences of extremism of various sorts.  Knowled...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40621822">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57690886">
    <user id="2363973">
    <name><![CDATA[Alexander]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Jersey City, NJ]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu May 28 20:00:04 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Much more complex than its predecessor, though the obvious parallels run through the reincarnated Isao.  A bit chilling to think of the Sea of Fertility series as a kind of literary suicide that culminated in Mishima's own death...still I'm eager to read the second half.]]></body>
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    <review id="55087341">
    <user id="1753641">
    <name><![CDATA[Fernando]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San JosÃ©, Costa Rica]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue May 05 18:55:22 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue May 05 18:57:03 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[So far, and I'm sure it won't change in the pages that follow, one of the most astounding novels I've read. But it is necessary to read &quot;Spring Snow&quot;, and the next two novels in the &quot;Sea of Fertility&quot; tetralogy. One of the pinnacles of XXth century literature.]]></body>
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    <review id="47030479">
    <user id="173197">
    <name><![CDATA[jennifer]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Feb 28 15:30:47 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[ugh, so, i am totally entranced by this series but massively depressed now what with all the ritual suicide (even the author!) and can't figure out whether to just keep going to the next one or instead find, like, some fairy tales to read to cheer me up.]]></body>
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    <review id="55452970">
    <user id="863686">
    <name><![CDATA[David]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri May 15 00:19:11 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really well done. These books burn bright, and they would even without knowing the author committed suicide the very day he completed this &quot;Sea of Fertility&quot; tetralogy.<br/><br/>Isao and Kiyoaki will stay with me, and Mishima will stay with us, too.]]></body>
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    <review id="70787119">
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    <name><![CDATA[Shigekuni]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Sep 10 19:01:25 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima (1990)]]></body>
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    <review id="41675377">
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    <body><![CDATA[Yukio Mishima, good writer. ]]></body>
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    <review id="19372915">
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    <name><![CDATA[Anna]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually liked this much more than Spring Snow.  Kiyoaki from the first book is reborn as Isao Iinuma, son of Kiyoakiâ€™s tutor in the first book.  Inspired by a book about an uprising, Isao wants to bring down some of the capitalist leaders he sees as corrupting Japan, and he also has a serious d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19372915">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Definitely the snooze of the tetralogy for me.  But now I know more about Kendo, the spirit of Shintoism, and Samurai insurrections. Plus choice lines like:<br/><br/>&quot;his teeth were no less white than the underwear that he washed unremittingly&quot;  <br/><br/>kudos to the translator or to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23589979">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Second half got my attention and made the book worthwhile. I wish the first part had not been as slow. Also I'm not sure I understand the importance of Honda being a part of this story- I know about the reincarnation, but still, I wasn't convinced of his role in this story. Still, brilliant writing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43035795">more...</a>]]></body>
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