L'ultimo samurai
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9788806157777 (8806157779)
Publish date: 2002
Publisher: Einaudi
Pages no: 452
Edition language: Italian
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Education,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Female Authors,
Japan
This book gave me one of the more mixed reading experiences in recent memory. There were sections of it that I just LOVED! so much that I wanted to pester everyone I knew with excerpts; other parts were so repetitive and annoying that I almost quit reading. Sweartogod the exact same scene is repeate...
I loved this even if I glossed over about two-thirds of it, which were quotes or paraphrases from other texts way over my head. I think I'd be a Sibylla type of parent (only not as smart) which probably wouldn't be the healthiest. This is precocious young boy story done right. I hated that other one...
Six stars! Seven stars! Hell, a herd of stars. We’re givin’ em away (liberated and reworked from The Tubes’ White Punks on Dope).Finding exactly the right book at exactly the right time doesn’t happen very often. Finding exactly the right book at all doesn’t happen often enough. This one found its w...
DeWitt's debut novel demonstrates excellent stylistic control and adventurousness often using a lack of punctuation to create a breathless pace that when sustained for long periods tends to leave one breathless and nursing an incipient headache beforeinterruption by another characterreplyrepeated in...
stricken for least comprehensible book review eveh in ToB***What did I mean by "ToB"? I've no idea