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xolotlll's review against another edition
5.0
Absolutely brilliant. It's amazing to see how much of an influence Rampo has had on modern Japanese fiction. Death Note and Suehiro Maruo in particular seem heavily inspired by these stories. They are beautifully crafted and manage to be surreal, mysterious and packed to the brim with striking images without really venturing into the supernatural at all.
pustulio's review against another edition
5.0
Ohhh señor que joyita de autor es esta eh!
Tiene todo para que sea mucho más famoso de lo que siento que es. Tal vez estoy en un error pero al menos aquí en México es muy desconocido.
Un autor que en todas sus historia tiene algún tipo de twist, muchas veces puedes intuir o al menos imaginarte que es lo que va a pasar pero en la mayoría los twist si son una gran sorpresa. Es demasiado sádico a veces pero nunca más de lo que la historia necesita.
Quiero más libros de él.
Y ahora Japón:
Tiene todo para que sea mucho más famoso de lo que siento que es. Tal vez estoy en un error pero al menos aquí en México es muy desconocido.
Un autor que en todas sus historia tiene algún tipo de twist, muchas veces puedes intuir o al menos imaginarte que es lo que va a pasar pero en la mayoría los twist si son una gran sorpresa. Es demasiado sádico a veces pero nunca más de lo que la historia necesita.
Quiero más libros de él.
Y ahora Japón:
susischmolz's review against another edition
4.0
Es más un 3.5, pensé que iba a ser más de terror y fue un libro de relatos más de thriller y de cosas bizarras. No tenía idea que de aquí habían sacado dos mangas; la silla humana por Junji Ito y La Oruga por Suehiro Maruo, ambos conocidos mangakas de terror y unos de mis preferidos.
Los relatos sin cortos y varios me recordaron a los relatos de detectives como al estilo de Sherlock Holmes. Es un libro entretenido y se lee rápido.
Los relatos sin cortos y varios me recordaron a los relatos de detectives como al estilo de Sherlock Holmes. Es un libro entretenido y se lee rápido.
tombomp's review against another edition
3.0
3.5? Maybe higher, I'm terrible at rating anthologies. The best story here is absolutely the first, The Chair, about a guy who lives in a chair and the incredibly described erotic, intimate feelings he gets when people sit on him, unknowingly. It's really unique and fascinating and weird. The way he "reciprocates" by adjusting his chair-body to better suit the person sitting on him... It's repulsive and sexual, it's great.
There's another story focusing on a similar combination of emotions about a woman and her severely disabled husband who had a quadruple amputation after a war injury and also can't talk/hear. I had pretty mixed feelings because it's both grossly ableist in terms of focusing on how weird and gross he is now... But also again there's the same focus on how the wife finds this incredibly erotic and hot and loves getting to "play" with him in his present state. The combination of eroticism and repulsion is unpleasant to read and the whole story is pretty horrible in those ways but it's still a really interesting work to read.
The other stories are a combination of weird tales, horror and stuff more in a mystery vein. The worst story here features his incredibly popular series detective solving a murder that we see from the perspective of the murderer but it's incredibly weak - the "gotcha" type way the detective catches the murderer would be so easy to get out of by just saying "oh I must have misremembered". Really disappointing given how popular his mysteries were!
The other stories don't reach the fascination the first two I mentioned do but all of them are effectively creepy and uncomfortable and leave you a little unsettled in the end. Definitely an entertaining read.
There's another story focusing on a similar combination of emotions about a woman and her severely disabled husband who had a quadruple amputation after a war injury and also can't talk/hear. I had pretty mixed feelings because it's both grossly ableist in terms of focusing on how weird and gross he is now... But also again there's the same focus on how the wife finds this incredibly erotic and hot and loves getting to "play" with him in his present state. The combination of eroticism and repulsion is unpleasant to read and the whole story is pretty horrible in those ways but it's still a really interesting work to read.
The other stories are a combination of weird tales, horror and stuff more in a mystery vein. The worst story here features his incredibly popular series detective solving a murder that we see from the perspective of the murderer but it's incredibly weak - the "gotcha" type way the detective catches the murderer would be so easy to get out of by just saying "oh I must have misremembered". Really disappointing given how popular his mysteries were!
The other stories don't reach the fascination the first two I mentioned do but all of them are effectively creepy and uncomfortable and leave you a little unsettled in the end. Definitely an entertaining read.
elisabethbeck's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
alesbookishcorner's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
yerulp's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.0
tomatowizardgrandandsupreme4's review against another edition
3.0
The Human Chair was so good, and there were also other stories included in this volume.