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I am obsessively working my way through Mishimas' entire bibliography. Just finished The Temple of the Dawn, because it was the first of the Sea of Tranquillity books I managed to find. Starting a tetraology at book number three is not ideal, but I am still totally enchanted by his great final masterpiece. What a fantastic premise for a series of novels. There's something unforgettable about the way he writes, or is it his whole personality shining through his writing?... Whatever it is his word
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I fail to understand how this is often considered the weakest in 'The Sea of Fertility' tetralogy. Though Honda's musings on Buddhism go on for quite a while, as soon as they are done, the book picks up again and is far more in the oddly ethereal vein of Spring Snow as opposed to the rather tedious Runaway Horses. This is the first book in the series that is explicitly about Honda and we come to learn that he is rather unpleasant, far from the neutral good-guy we saw in Spring Snow. I must now r
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Han Xu
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it seems to be too theoretical for a novel. but if consider it as a thesis from Mishima talking about his own core topic, then it's worth a patient reading.
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