by Yasutaka Tsutsui, David Karashima
What a disappointment, and I suspect the problem is largely the translation itself, though I don't rule out that the original work is the source of this.The first story, and consequently the one that gave this story its title, is The Girl Who Leap Through Time, which inspired the animated movie with...
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...
Quería leer este libro desde el momento en el que vi la película, la cual me encantó, ya que tengo la firme convicción de que los libros siempre son mejores que su adaptación fílmica. Sin embargo, La Chica Que Que Saltaba A Traves del Tiempo resulto ser la excepción de la regla.La película trata de ...
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...
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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