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Death by Book Avalanche
Death by Book Avalanche rated it 10 years ago
This was a very strange book that deserves a good rating as it's one that has been stuck in my mind for a while now and I always find that if a book is memorable it deserves great praise. A bizarre story about a fruit loop of a girl who is extremely possessive and a slave to dark thoughts. You are w...
nouveau
nouveau rated it 12 years ago
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...
Reading Books, Reading More Books
Reading Books, Reading More Books rated it 12 years ago
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.
Parrish Lantern's Casebook
Parrish Lantern's Casebook rated it 12 years ago
If this is a work of autofiction, Kanehara’s life was a dangerous turbulent existence full of seedy haunts, rape clubs and pathetic boyfriends who contributed no positive input into her life, that one is amazed she survived. If this is purely a work of fiction, it’s presented in a way that is so vis...
To all the pages I've read before
To all the pages I've read before rated it 13 years ago
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...
Booka
Booka rated it 14 years ago
Zawiodłam się. Książka niby nie nudzi (choć niektóre fragmenty się dłużą), ale jednak coś mi w niej zabrakło. Mam poczucie niedosytu. Czyta się nieźle ale sama historia jest jakaś taka mdła i nijaka. Jedyne co mi się w niej podobało to opis piercingu i przecinania języka oraz fragmenty z pobiciem te...
BookRatMisty
BookRatMisty rated it 16 years ago
I would maybe bump this up to a 3 on a good day, but really, I think I'm just not the right market for it. Body mod is nothing new to me, so there was no "ooh, ahh" factor, and I'm just not enough into S&M or freaked out enough by it for those scenes to really have gotten to me.All in all, pretty c...
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