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"Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination contains nine bloodcurdling tales by the author who is …
3.5
I think some stories were better than others but Rampo's style and ideas were quite great! I was particularly thrilled reading The Human Chair !
A friendless young girl encounters a high schooler who cuts her wrists, a woman insultingly …
少しつまらなかったと思う。
長い間読んだ。
es war wunderschön, über Einsamkeit, Liebe, Familie, Tod, alles...
ich habe keine Wörter, es hat mich sehr viel berührt.
I am a bit disappointed by the stories selected in this collection. I always find the ones based on Dazai's life the most entertaining, though, and so Alt Heidelberg was the one I liked the most; I just love his odd compulsions and struggles, getting to read more about them is quite fascinating.
Well, this is it when it comes to reading Dazai in English... next time I'll just jump to Japanese.
SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris …
first time listening to an audiobook from this series! it was very interesting to "read" it this way.
I love how murderbot just keeps evolving and getting frustrated with the humans he just can't avoid.
well, this was entertaining and short, like all of these books seem to be, I'll continue with the series!
this was such an unexpected pleasure to read.
simply beautiful and sad, very melancholic themes and imagery that I will go back to reading for sure.
Goat Songs were definitely the best of all but there were also some precious gems in the other poems collections.
Nakahara seemed to be a man prone to sadness and loneliness and I always read the writings of such people with such empathy that I cannot help hoping to keep their words close to my heart for as long as I am alive.
seriously precious.
I am so happy I read this! I kept reading about Dazai's sense of humor and I hadn't experienced the reality of it until I read this... I finished it one day past the 桜桃忌, which was most fitting. I adored the way Dazai interrupted the story to explain some specific parts and to bring little facts to the reader's attention. I found the way he also spoke to us readers from his sad reality during the war, most entertaining and captivating.
I am once again wondering why I bought this book in English instead of just forcing myself to read the original but I will soon enough (I bought Blue Bamboo in English as well so that will have to wait...). Still, Dazai is just a pleasure to read in English so I'm pretty sure once I get my hands on the original texts, I'll be all the more …
I am so happy I read this! I kept reading about Dazai's sense of humor and I hadn't experienced the reality of it until I read this... I finished it one day past the 桜桃忌, which was most fitting. I adored the way Dazai interrupted the story to explain some specific parts and to bring little facts to the reader's attention. I found the way he also spoke to us readers from his sad reality during the war, most entertaining and captivating.
I am once again wondering why I bought this book in English instead of just forcing myself to read the original but I will soon enough (I bought Blue Bamboo in English as well so that will have to wait...). Still, Dazai is just a pleasure to read in English so I'm pretty sure once I get my hands on the original texts, I'll be all the more captivated by his talented writing.
Can't recommend this fun book enough, especially for a reader that may not have a lot of knowledge about Japan's traditional tales.
interessant! ich wusste nicht es war ein Theaterstück! sehr originell und unerwartet Ende.
3.5
i honestly came to this book hoping it'd be a lot more perverse so my hopes were sadly too high!
still, tanizaki's style does not disappoint, the book reads easily and at a good pace and the twisted relationship between naomi and joji is quite interesting. i just wished i hadn't expected this to take a darker, more perverse turn so that my illusions hadn't been shattered!
It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. …
I still find murderbot awfully relatable and funny.
this series reads quickly and it’s entertaining enough even if it doesn't get deep and just skims over the surface of things.
good to pass the time and share murderbot's awkwardness due to being surrounded by the emotional beings called humans.
Yoru Sumino: 君の膵臓をたべたい (双葉文庫)
最初の日本語で読んだ本だった！嬉しいです！知らない言葉がたくさんあったけど読みやすかったです。
悲しい物語だった。でも、私は主人公の生活習慣とか考えがあるので、春樹は本当に好きでした。そして、彼の世界の撤回を分かりやすかったです。私もそう思います。私も他の人を避けります。でも、彼は彼女に会って、彼女に心を通わせてから、彼はより幸せになった。
今は、私の心を痛いけど、大丈夫です。
Kübra Gümüşay beschreibt wie Sprache unser Denken prägt und unsere Politik bestimmt.
„Ein beeindruckendes Buch, …
ich dachte dieses Buch geht um Sprachwissenschaft aber es geht tatsächlich um Politik. das ist okay aber ich war ein bisschen entäuscht.
das buch war okay aber ich habe nicht so viel gelernt und ich glaube es war vielleicht nicht so originell.
Dennoch, ein paar schöne Sätze:
"Jede neue Sprache ist ein weiterer Existenraum."
"Jede unserer Handlungen ist ein Kompromiss zwischen unseren Idealen und der Realität, in der wir uns befinden. Anders können wir nicht handeln."
3.5
interesante lectura, bastante informativa sobre cómo funcionaba la vida y las relaciones de las mujeres de la corte en esa época.
probablemente sea una lectura necesaria para todo aquel interesado en la literatura japonesa.
A sybaritic psychopath pens an autobiography of epicureanism and evisceration.
3.5
interesting portrayal of a cannibal murderess that often goes into detail when it comes to fancy food.
i think it was an enjoyable book but nothing too out of the ordinary for me to go around recommending it to others.
