I recommend this one to everyone. A student meets an older man while on holidays and forms a mentor friendship with him, his teacher eventually comes clean and admits to having a troubled past. Sōseki has such a great style, not to mention the story is so intriuging. There's these really short chapters only 2/3 pages long that act as this creeping build up to a very satisfying conclusion.
Jan 2, 2025
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when I visited my friend Nico’s house last winter, they gave me their own copy of ‘The Remains of the day‘ presenting it as a book that changed their way of seeing life.
To be honest it is a very powerful and lovely novel, the characters feel very real but also very dreamlike, all of them are described with their own set of traits which makes this short novel a very nice time. it took a while for me to finish it but it’s very light. I wasn’t very familiar with Ishiguro’s work but this was a great introduction.
Mar 22, 2024
Yasunari Kawabata’s best work. a very wistful romantic tragedy about the doomed love affair between a Tokyo dilettante and a geisha at a remote hot spring. Kawabata was the first Japanese author to win the Nobel prize for literature, with Snow Country cited by the Nobel committee. pictured here is the back of my copy :)
Mar 16, 2025
I have a bad habit of buying books and never reading them… except I read this one! And it was really good!
Sep 30, 2024
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The first two lines of the chorus:
'You can never be strong,
You can only be free'
Sums up everything great about Robert Pollard's songwriting. Drama, hope and disappointment.
Mar 7, 2025
I'm amazed no one else has mentioned the great Townes Van Zandt. This is my favourite of his, a beautiful voice and songwriter gone far too soon.
Mar 7, 2025
It's emblematic of everything that went wrong with disco but I love it so much.
Mar 4, 2025