dd reviewed Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
Exponentially Weirder through the End
3 stars
This is one of those "don't judge a book by its cover" reads. It's interesting and vivid. If you like weird, strange, and sometimes oddly hard reads, try it.
audio cd, 1 pages
English language
Published by Blackstone Publishing.
This is one of those "don't judge a book by its cover" reads. It's interesting and vivid. If you like weird, strange, and sometimes oddly hard reads, try it.
En oikein osaa sanoa oliko tämä liian absurdi, vai samaan aikaan ei ihan tarpeeksi absurdi. Ei tarpeeksi absurdi siinä mielessä, että kirja ikäänkuin liian myöhään nosti lukijan pois kaiken normaaliuden tuomasta tulkinnasta. Ihan tykkäsinkin, mutta toisaalta aika varovaisesti lähtisin suosittelemaan kenellekään.
The more you read, the less you care about any of the characters. Perhaps that was just me becoming more rational toward this irrational garbage.
The first chapter or so had me remembering summers at my grandparents’ house. That feeling is quickly ripped away in favor of whatever the hell else this book wanted to be.
Amongst the awful verbal and emotional abuse from a parent and sibiling, sexual assault from a teacher, and depictions of incest and child sex within the first third of the book, I couldn't make myself keep reading. After reading Convenience Store Woman, I don't anticipate that the circumstances are going to get any better for the protagonist...