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"...then Nicolai Hell takes three pieces of hair out of his ass and with a quick movement of his talented fingers they fly in a milisecond to the bad guys throat.He is dead before his poor sinful ass meets the ground! Hell,then feels the hot meteorite falling onto his garden -but god knows how-..omg without taking his pants off he and his mistress lean and let a fart out of their talented asses. OH!! The meteorite goes back to the hell where it just came from and Hell saves the world with his unknown unsaid and unwritten talents..."
The only thing to be said about the book Shibumi is:lol!!! I had read it from the beginning till the end-giving it many chances and hoping that it would change-and now can see that it does not meet the readers needs.
There is nothing to discuss about the philosophy in the book;whereas the action scenes were nothing different than those above.This was the cheapest way of writing action!
Finally it is a waste of time to read this book for action!.and for philosophy,i am sure you can make MUCH better selections.sorry for bad language but i wouldn't tell it in another way. with my best regards, Rıza Avşar
I read the book about 22 years ago and don't recall it that way.
Maybe you employed creative quoting?
It is many, many years since I read it, and it has predominantly poor reviews on Goodreads, but I recall it as quite absorbing and atmospheric, certainly a good deal more worthwhile than 88.246.194.177 made it sound.
Shibumi brought Stefan and me to the game. We can argue whether that was a good thing or at all meaningful for mankind but it's good enough for me.
I remember being put off by the major digression into cave exploration but the other tangent, notably the Basque language, and the back story of his imprisonment, were rather intriguing. Certainly imaginable that one can develop special skills as an antidote against the madness that one may get from years of imprisonment.
As an action thriller, maybe not so much, but I don't know if a book is the best mechanism of transfering action, now that we have movies, series and games, enhanced with CPG.
Certainly what you get out of a book like Shibumi, are thoughts. Thoughts that stick for quite some time, I can see now. In many respects it's like Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. Both books appealed to me in my 20s and probably would no longer now.