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Title: Nip the Buds Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe, Paul St. John Mackintosh, Maki Sugiyama ISBN: 0-8021-3463-7 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: July, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Shoot the Kids...
Comment:
Oe is a brilliant writer. This was the first book I have read by him, and I was taken away. Leaving no harsh image unspoken, Oe isn't bashful about writing details that may make the reader's stomache churn.
To describe the book in a very breif synopsis, a group of reform school boys get abandoned amidst a plauge. The setting is post World War 2 Japan and the boys find a leader from the narrator, and form their own community.
Children are forced to grow up far too fast, and their age has no relevance to their minds. Once the narrator becomes an adult, and sheds his last memories of child hood, even his pride of adulthood is stripped away from him.
Filled with beautiful sentance structure and much philisophical thoughts, you will find yourself constantly quoting this book. I have reccomended it to all my friends. It is a stunning read and was a Nobel prize winner.
Rating: 4
Summary: Beautiful and painful
Comment: I was entranced by this little book. I am new to Oe, but found the direct style stimulating. The images are strong and painful. The sense of tragedy is palpable (and seems to have pervaded the author's own life); but where there is tragedy, there must be lost beauty - and Oe communicates the beauty as well.
I'll read more of Oe's works.
Rating: 4
Summary: A punch in the stomach...
Comment: That's what my wife told me when I picked it up to begin reading it. But that's what a good book is supposed to feel like. And it did. It was dark, cruel, and painful,, and contained vivid descriptions of inhumanity, though it was not without its moments of humor.
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Title: Hiroshima Notes by Kenzaburo Oe, David L. Swain, Toshi Yonezawa ISBN: 0802134645 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: July, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Silent Cry: A Novel by Kenzaburo Oe, John Bester, S. Shaw ISBN: 4770019653 Publisher: Kodansha International Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oë, John Nathan ISBN: 0802150616 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: January, 1988 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa, Sa Zitkala ISBN: 0803299028 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: January, 1986 List Price(USD): $8.57 |
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Title: The Metamorphosis by FRANZ KAFKA ISBN: 0553213695 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 February, 1972 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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