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Eerily beautiful and delicately romantic. This ominous masterpiece paints vivid scenes of love, distrust and loss through the most beautiful descriptions I have ever read. Mishima is awe-inspiring and nothing short of impressive in his use of words to construct mood, feeling and atmosphere throughout.
Terrifyingly gorgeous. Yukio Mishima is an example of a case in which it is a grave injustice to separate the art from the artist—his ideological being bleeds into his marvelously sculpted work. With just one book, he has cemented himself as a literary giant in my eyes.
"And the Quartermaster's log, a daily record of weather, wind velocity, atmospheric pressure, tempera-ture, relative humidity, speed, distance logged, and revolutions per minute, a diary accurately recording the sea's caprice in c ...more
"And the Quartermaster's log, a daily record of weather, wind velocity, atmospheric pressure, tempera-ture, relative humidity, speed, distance logged, and revolutions per minute, a diary accurately recording the sea's caprice in c ...more
Not the best of Mishima. Yet good story for the leisure time.
Jan 08, 2013
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marked it as to-read
Sep 22, 2019
Killer of Dreams
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it was ok
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Jun 13, 2021
Daniel Contreras Volcan
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Cowan Paro
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