Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Book Review: The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
Writing Style-6.1
Originality-5.6
Plot-4.9
Merit(whatever that means)-5.9
Overall-5.5
Yet another extremely mediocre book. I picked this one up when I noticed it on Time magazines Top 100 and that we had a copy of it at the house.
This author is pretty interesting because after he completed what he considered his masterpiece (not The Sound of Waves) he commited seppuku (ritual suicide). I really hope that that book (actually a trilogy I think) is better than this one, though The Sound of Waves seems to be the most widely read in the US at least.
The feel of the novel is nice. Since it is in Japan and reveals somethings about Japanese culture. But the story is not very interesting. It's a pretty straight forward love story. Poor boy falls in love with rich girl. She loves him back but they have to overcome society's forces that are trying to keep them apart. It's one of those deals. Though I didn't really feel the struggle, you know? I just didn't feel the pain. I felt the love, but when it came to the main struggle of the novel, it just never seemed to get bad enough for the main characters to really care.
Originality-5.6
Plot-4.9
Merit(whatever that means)-5.9
Overall-5.5
Yet another extremely mediocre book. I picked this one up when I noticed it on Time magazines Top 100 and that we had a copy of it at the house.
This author is pretty interesting because after he completed what he considered his masterpiece (not The Sound of Waves) he commited seppuku (ritual suicide). I really hope that that book (actually a trilogy I think) is better than this one, though The Sound of Waves seems to be the most widely read in the US at least.
The feel of the novel is nice. Since it is in Japan and reveals somethings about Japanese culture. But the story is not very interesting. It's a pretty straight forward love story. Poor boy falls in love with rich girl. She loves him back but they have to overcome society's forces that are trying to keep them apart. It's one of those deals. Though I didn't really feel the struggle, you know? I just didn't feel the pain. I felt the love, but when it came to the main struggle of the novel, it just never seemed to get bad enough for the main characters to really care.
