Joji Numata

Writer, Reader, Listener to good music. Author of Hentai Boy, Mother Complex, Nudity, Wet Silk, Cross-dress Boy, Sissyboy, etc.

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@goodreads The Immoralist by Andre Gide.

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@penguinusa The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway.

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The Beatles' pre-Rubber Soul albums are like Nabokov's Russian novels.

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The Vatican Cellars by Andre Gide. This is what results when a writer of genius turns his hand to creating a mystery/thriller/satire.

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I think Patricia Highsmith is an over-rated writer. But then, she wrote all of her books while drunk.

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Have you ever read a writer's works just to enjoy reading his/her biography afterwards?

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There are two translations of Soseki's masterpiece "Mon," and I recommend the one by William F. Sibley, "The Gate."

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Just finished Soseki's The Wayfarer. Excellent, excellent novel...until the ending. Why did he have to end such a wonderful story with a heavy philisophical/religious diagnosis of one of the characters?

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@PenguinUKBooks The Wayfarer by Natsume Soseki.

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For first-time readers of Dostoyevsky who are afraid to take the plunge, I recommend "The Gambler," a novella which is easy to read, has a great story, and will make you fall in love with this great writer.

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@penguinusa Turn an open book face-down on any surface.

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The most under-rated composer in the classical standard repertoire: Hector Berlioz.

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This is my version of Basho's "old pond" haiku:

O venerable pond, a frog jumps in with a plonk

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@PenguinUKBooks The Tales of Ise by Ariwara no Narihira

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Re-reading Gravity's Rainbow. The first time it was nearly incomprehensible. This time I understand it much better but I don't enjoy the story at all. I don't plan to finish it.

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@penguinusa Never! I only want to make love with one person at a time.

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Joseph Heller's Something Happened is every bit the masterpiece that Catch-22 is, but in a very different way. Surely it's one of the most underrated books in 20th Century American literature.

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I'm always surprised when people say, "This book was so funny that I actually laughed aloud in certain places." Well, I find it normal to laugh aloud quite often when I read good and funny books like Catch-22 or Catcher in the Rye or even Alice in Wonderland.

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@PenguinUKBooks The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, hands down.

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I just finished reading a short novel, Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant, a writer who seems to be getting rapidly forgotten these days. That's a shame because he's such an excellent storyteller.