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October 07
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Shogun (Mass Market Paperback)
by James Clavell
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read in April, 2007
nikola said:
"i got this book from friends as a present when i was going to go to japan.. i started reading about the time i landed in japan and i sort of felt similarly to the way 'anjin-san' - the protagonist.. was feeling about japanese culture and people.. whi...more
i got this book from friends as a present when i was going to go to japan.. i started reading about the time i landed in japan and i sort of felt similarly to the way 'anjin-san' - the protagonist.. was feeling about japanese culture and people.. which makes me think.. although they've obviously changed since the time he came here.. the change's not been huge .. in fact much of those days japan is the same now - 500 years later.
i'd recommend to any foreign person visiting japan to read this book.. it very nicely shows two types of foreigners approaching japan .. one type - the majority - denouncing all that is japan and japanese .. mocking them for what they are, how they look like, how different they are etc. this kind of people is shown as the crew of the crashed ship.
on the other hand, some foreigners would approach the new and unknown culture with respect, trying to understand it.. to learn from it and to acquire it.. including ways, language etc. and this is how 'anjin-san' does.
that's pretty much the same story today .. i can say by looking at the foreigners in japan. and i can say that, as it is in Shogun, the first type of people couldn't get almost anything from japan.. while the rare type would experience the magic of this 'land of gods' as the author put it in the book.
in fact, an interesting point is the meeting between the protagonist 'anjin-san' and his crew after 'anjin-san' had spent considerable time with the samurai (and actually had already become one). the way he finds his crew shows clearly the difference between those two types of foreigners, about who i told you.
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Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by Gabriel García Márquez
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read in April, 2006
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Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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read in August, 2005
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Idiot (Wordsworth Collection) (Wordsworth Collection)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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read in August, 2007
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The Gambler (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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read in December, 2006
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The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by J.D. Salinger
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read in October, 2007
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