Rate Your First Read of 2023

[Anonymous No.21550379]

I begin
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>it sucked

[Anonymous No.21550397]

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>it good

[Anonymous No.21550417]

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>pretty good

[Anonymous No.21550420]

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>it very good

[Anonymous No.21550429]

I finished reading all the books I wanted to read (i.e., the western canon according to Harold Bloom) in 2017, so I haven't read since then.

[Anonymous No.21550430]

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>it was fucking amazing, I love how Kochan never learns from his mistakes despite constantly thinking about them, I didn't know whether to laugh at his stupidity and cry at his lack of a proper conception of self

[Anonymous No.21550434]

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>mixed bag

[Anonymous No.21550441]

>>21550379
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>It's good

[Anonymous No.21550454]

>>21550430
It's been a while since I've read this book so help me out with a couple of questions that I have regarding your post:
1) what were his biggest mistakes?
2) why do you think he never self-actualized? I mean that is the whole point of the book.

[Anonymous No.21550597]

>>21550454
Kochan consistently makes mistakes concerning the nature of his own love. It begins with the denial of his sexual feelings as a reflection of himself (as seen in his encounter with Omi as a teenager, Kochan has sexual feelings for him but is not willing to accept that they reflect an aspect of his true nature which loves men. This similarly occured with his small encounter with Yakumo and his squimish feeling nwar the end of the novel with his classmates discussing sodomites). Kochan (at least in how I read the story) is a heavily fragmented character that does not (or is unwilling) to reconcile his mask to his true nature, causing his constant depression. The ending shows this especially: despite expressing a deep sense of (non-sexual) love for Sonoko and wishing they could get together regardless of her marriage, Kochan reveals his true nature in his keen, detailed (and seemingly sexually motivated) observation of a young street tough. In the end, Kochan is two characters as at the beginning: the child who wishes to be normal and the man who does not know who he is. [/spoilers]

[Anonymous No.21550635]

>>21550454
[spoilers] Also some futher mistakes: not marrying Sonoko despite believing he wanted to and taking the easy way out of the situation by using Kusano as the bearer of bad news, not being able to fuck a prostitute, acting as an honors student despite putting in the lowest effort, his realization that his death drive was not as strong as he thought, and in relation to this his lying about having tuberculosis in order to get out of active military service. [/spoilers]

[Anonymous No.21550642]

>>21550454
Also some futher mistakes: not marrying Sonoko despite believing he wanted to and taking the easy way out of the situation by using Kusano as the bearer of bad news, not being able to fuck a prostitute, acting as an honors student despite putting in the lowest effort, his realization that his death drive was not as strong as he thought, and in relation to this his lying about having tuberculosis in order to get out of active military service.

[Anonymous No.21550646]

>>21550429
Based
>>21550434
Vrilpilled

[Anonymous No.21550654]

>>21550379
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>very good

[Anonymous No.21550660]

my favorite part was the chapter about two super powered philosophers dueling each other

[Anonymous No.21550754]

I read the new Yoko Tawada book and it was terrible, her new shit is so bad. Old shit is okay.
Inb4 women can’t write, new books are always bad, etc

[Anonymous No.21550758]

>>21550430
No you love how this gay Japanese "fashy" (lol) author was included in a /pol/ book list image from 2014

[Anonymous No.21550762]

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>first half sucked
>second half was good

[Anonymous No.21550764]

>>21550758
Runaway horses was discussed here before that

[Anonymous No.21550808]

>>21550758
Go back to /pol/, faggot

[Anonymous No.21550828]

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>it was fantastic

Easily one of my favorite weird fiction books of all time.

[Anonymous No.21550843]

>>21550379
>Pic related
>The sun is very hot in Algeria

[Anonymous No.21551961]

>>21550762
>edmunda husserla

[Anonymous No.21552062]

>it was good

[Anonymous No.21552338]

>>21550379
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>pretty good

[Anonymous No.21552521]

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>it was good but I liked the first one more

[Anonymous No.21552525]

>>21552521
It's The Pilo Travelling Show, Google images gave me the Spanish cover by accident.

[Anonymous No.21553387]

>>21550379
I haven't read any books.

[Anonymous No.21553413]

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>It's good, but I didn't care for the epilogue

[Anonymous No.21553427]

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>really good

[Anonymous No.21553435]

Amazing.
Need to take it slow.
You Mexicans are alright folk, eh.

[Anonymous No.21553457]

>>21550379
I read The Hungry Moon. It was alright, the beginning was quite boring until it started with the moon cave stuff. It was very interesting until Mann came back. Then it was boring again.
4/10 high highs and low lows, problem is there was many lows and few highs.

[Anonymous No.21553494]

reread the divine comedy. i fucking love that book to death bros...

[Anonymous No.21553517]

>>21553427
Atta boy

[Anonymous No.21553694]

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>fucking pretentious hippy motherfuckers. Not bad 7.5/10

[Anonymous No.21554240]

3.5/5

[Anonymous No.21554315]

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>nothing to write home about ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Anonymous No.21554903]

>>21553457
The rating seems kind of low for a book you kind of like.