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 The Last Samurai - Helen DeWitt
 The Last Samurai - Helen DeWitt ... Samurai and it plays as a bizarre running backdrop to his childhood. His search for his real father ends in disappointment but he does find out more than he needs about his mother's shaky past.Newest Review: ... It's an exuberant call to go out and see what you can find in this incredible world rather than settling for what you ... more ... are given. I'm sorry, do I sound intoxicated? It must be the book, I'm only drinking shandy tonight, honest! Yes, but what's it about?!! Well... Sibylla is an American who came to Oxford to study languages, she is also a single mother struggling to raise a child prodigy, following in the hothouse footsteps of Mr. Ma (Yo Yo's pa). Rather idiosyncratically, she decides to provide her son Ludo with ma
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The Last Samurai - Helen DeWitt: kurosawabunga! (937 words)
by - written on 10/08/01 (Very useful, 252 readings)
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"? let's take the example of two men who are about to be ritually disembowelled. A dies at time t of heart failure and B dies at time t+n from having someone plunge a stone knife into his chest and rip the beating heart out with his bare hands. I think we would agree that B's life was not improved by the additional n minutes ?" Erm, I've never read anything quite like this before. You don't expect a novel to teach you to read Greek doo yoo? Well this one does, and some Japanese too. Nor can there be very many books with a chapter called: 999999^7=999993000020999965000034999979000006999999 Did you think ... Read the complete review
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