A review by sedge
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
2.0
Boy oh boy, I haven’t written a review in quite sometime and I had managed to forget how daunting this can be.
This one fell a little flat for me. I was really teetering between 2 or 3 stars and I decided to go with the former because of one simple reason. This shit was kinda boring.
If I were to judge it solely on the standard of a novel being able to execute standard literary conventions, it would excel. However, books are so much more than that, they need to elicit some kind of emotional connection between the content and the consumer. This one really lacked emotional depth and that in turn meant that it was all rather forgettable. It was like if a person with very high IQ and very low EQ was turned into a book.
Maybe this can be attributed to the fact that it was initially written in Japanese. Maybe one day I will know how to read Japanese and I can read the pre-translated version and it will knock my proverbial socks off. However, today is not that day.
I’m rambling, goodnight.
This one fell a little flat for me. I was really teetering between 2 or 3 stars and I decided to go with the former because of one simple reason. This shit was kinda boring.
If I were to judge it solely on the standard of a novel being able to execute standard literary conventions, it would excel. However, books are so much more than that, they need to elicit some kind of emotional connection between the content and the consumer. This one really lacked emotional depth and that in turn meant that it was all rather forgettable. It was like if a person with very high IQ and very low EQ was turned into a book.
Maybe this can be attributed to the fact that it was initially written in Japanese. Maybe one day I will know how to read Japanese and I can read the pre-translated version and it will knock my proverbial socks off. However, today is not that day.
I’m rambling, goodnight.