!bookworms I'm thinking about reading “Confessions of a Mask” by Yukio Mishima, what are your thoughts on him and other Japanese authors? Personally I've never read a book by any Jap author so far (Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki but he's pretty much an Englishman through and through and his best book The Remains of the Day is the quintessential portray of British character).
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Seconding The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With The Sea as a Mishima recommendation, it's ace.
Pick a book by Murakami at random and read it. If you get it, you get it.
Goodbye Tsugumi was beautiful.
No Longer Human was really depressing.
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