/lit/ - Literature

I just finished reading The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima, I feel like I got memed. The themes of glory and death felt like the ramblings of an insane person, it didn't resonate with me at all. The characters felt inhuman, like they were a soapbox for the author instead of a real person. Not to mention he devoted multiple pages to murdering and dissecting a kitten. Are his other books this bad? I was planning on reading Confessions of a Mask afterwards but now I don't even want to.

Just finished this. My first Mishima book. Thoroughly enjoyed it. What are your thoughts on it, /lit/?

What are you currently reading /lit/? Are you enjoying it? What do you plan on reading next?

I'm reading pic related. It's really good. I'm also reading Aberration in the Heartland of the Real as my non-fiction book. Only 34 pages in so the jury is out at the moment but I like where it's going.

I've got quite a few Japanese novels which I've never read so I think I'm going to read one of them. This is my first time reading Mishima so I think I'll read Confessions of a Mask next.

>130 pages long
>50% of it is useless descriptions of ships, buildings etc.

are the rest of his books like this?