well finished with thousand cranes. it's really short. picked up alot of new things, i read alot differently the beginning of junior year. i was so wrapped up in the metaphor of the struggle of japanese before, i completely missed the characterization and extreme constant sexual tension. luckily, i picked up on all of that this time around
next i'm already almost all the way through siddartha. followed by balzac and the little chinese seamstress. i don't remember these asian books very well, especially the ones just chock full of sex. there's a couple other books i still need to reread, but these were the only ones i had on hand.
don't know what to say about siddartha really. it's the herman hesse version, so it's a realistic view of how to achieve enlightenment. i was a bit confused the first time i read it because the protagonist is very originally named siddartha, same as the buddah. hell, his son is even named siddartha, so who the actual Buddha was always a bit confusing.
i used to go along with this "life is beautiful when lived at the minimum" shit, but then i discovered nietzsche epicuris and henonism, and all the better.
