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[Anthony Bonner]

Hmm - not sure what to make of this. Read it, enjoyed, probably need to read it again. Flows surprisingly well given the narrative structure of it all. Saw some people say it was hard to follow, but I didn't feel that way at all.

Certainly better than the last hotness in weighty fantasy filled tomes "2066" which felt like a slog the whole way through.

[Orik]

I almost gave up after 100 pages or so, as it started out very Dragon Tattoo-ish, but I'm sort of glad I stuck it out. Lots of stuff about Japanese-ness, Shinto vs Christianity, elements from Japanese ghost stories, bluntly referential (Paul Auster, obviously, although much more convoluted story in a story in a story, the references to Temps Perdu and madeleines just as you feel like you're done with Swann's Way but not sure about the rest, Big Brother vs Little People also as Christianity or western social structure vs Japanese). I wonder how good the translation is - even the book's name loses the Japanese word play, and dohta gives away less than d(long o)ta in katakana.

[Lippy]

I keep pulling this off the library shelf...and putting it back, but you've made it sound interesting.