I feel like this is a really difficult book to review because I can't tell if the problems were with the writing itself or the translation. The concepts were interesting in both stories (this book actually contains two short stories), and I quite enjoyed Tsutsui's creativity. I actually think I enjo...
Despite my disappointment with the live action movie Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, I was looking forward to this book – possibly one of those instances of me being too attracted to cover art. Seriously, the cover of this book is lovely. And also makes no sense. At the very least, ...
The title story was not a bad novella at all, though I think this is one of the few times when I have to say that I enjoyed the movie (anime) more. I'd probably have liked the story much better if I hadn't seen the movie -- even though the movie is about different characters, it just goes so much d...
pretty bad and transparent attempt to create "succes d'scandal;" Kanehara is probably supported by the Japanese literary establishment because she is coming from the normally unproductive and unliterary subculture of teenybopper body-modifiers-- in this case, extreme tongue modification-- ; this ver...
If this book interests you, watch the movie instead.Bad translation? I'm not sure. I admit, I'm a humongous fan of the film. I love it to pieces. The book? Not so much. There were moments when I could almost get down with the prose, but altogether, it was not fun to read.
1½ stars only, actually...I really thought I'd like this book - premise was great and I usually like the Japanese way of thinking and writing that I've encountered elsewhere (like Haruki Murakami). But this was just quite terrible... I don't know how much of it was due to the translation, but it was...
Very cute, Not enough of it for 5 stars.
The first story in this book, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, only earned two stars for me. But the second one, The Stuff That Nightmares are Made Of, was a lot stronger and bumped up my rating to three stars. Both stories are mysterious (the second one much more so), and the author builds the susp...
This book was free and only 120 pages. I figured it would be worth a read as the cover clearly states it won the Japanese award for best new literary talent.Um... Not so much.It took less than two hours to read, but I feel that every second I spent reading this I wasted and now have to live with the...
Also appears hereWhen I was in high school, part of my French curriculum was learning the basics of translation. Now, you might think that it's easy, provided you can read in a foreign language and have a good dictionary at hand. But, as I learned, there are some rules to translation that definitely...
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