Snakes and Earrings. Unabridged CD
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780143057826 (0143057820)
Publish date: May 19th 2005
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
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.
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...
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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