The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

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• gPphX · Jan 12, 2016 · Recommends

  …Life Lévi, Eliphas - Transcendental Magic, Its Doctine and Ritual Lewis, Wyndham - Blast Marcus, Greil - Mystery Train McEwan, Ian - In Between The Sheets Milligan, Spike - Puckoon Mishima, Yukio - Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, The Mitford, Jessica - American Way Of Death, The Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita Norman, Howard - Bird Artist, The Norris, Frank - McTeague O’Hara, Frank - Selected Poems Orwell, George - 1984 Orwell,…

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• edrx · Oct 8, 2024 · Recommends

  …and Famas", by Julio Cortázar - I read it for the first time when I was about 13 and for many years I reread at least once per year; "Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" (Robert M. Pirsig) "The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea" (Yukio Mishima) "The Yage Letters" (William Burroughs) "The Old Ways" (Gary Snyder) "Life and Death (Elementary Go Series #4)", by James Davies. Really - I studied that one very seriously. Note:…

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• n1b0m · Nov 26, 2024 · Recommends

  …a startling book with a rather disturbing wartime scene that has haunted me for years. Currently I'd recommend Yakumo Koizumi and Natsume Soseki for more old school Japanese writings. Mishima's The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is another great read, despite the author being an extremely disagreeable person.

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