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reintje69's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.75
kuerbispampe's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
3.0
cgdppl's review against another edition
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
This book is rather a collection of 3 short stories. They give a look into the notions of the author about his own life and feelings that he was going through at different times. The book is rather symplistic but it is also beautiful in that simplicity.
catluvrrr's review against another edition
dark
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
pjharveystan's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
scoutk's review against another edition
medium-paced
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
***mentions of suicide and man***
I am utterly divided. I just finished it and I hated it, but I hated it in the own depths of my being, so it is not bad writing, but it isn’t good either. The issue that I have with the book, is that even though it is a suicide note and I feel conflicted about how to feel about him. He is so clearly a man with a godcomplex and the way he describes himself, his emotions and his being, as something of poetic nature, while also just being a bad person and not even trying to value life, but going into the depths of suffering and glorifying it, doesn’t sit right with me. I don’t need another book about a man who believes his suffering puts him above all the suffering and wrongness he commits and that he even relishes in the selfhate it creates in him. I might as well not be a fan of melancholy, but this just feels so flat out like a man, who believes himself to be far more brilliant and superior in thought than anyone else, so to not lose his mind, he kill’s himself. I hate flat depth. He is not deep, he is shallow. But then again it is complicated, the man has problems and he was a human and no one should feel the way like killing themselves, but then again I also got major ickies from lots of chapters of his book. Maybe it’s better in Japanese. I will have to see and read it again sometime.
I am utterly divided. I just finished it and I hated it, but I hated it in the own depths of my being, so it is not bad writing, but it isn’t good either. The issue that I have with the book, is that even though it is a suicide note and I feel conflicted about how to feel about him. He is so clearly a man with a godcomplex and the way he describes himself, his emotions and his being, as something of poetic nature, while also just being a bad person and not even trying to value life, but going into the depths of suffering and glorifying it, doesn’t sit right with me. I don’t need another book about a man who believes his suffering puts him above all the suffering and wrongness he commits and that he even relishes in the selfhate it creates in him. I might as well not be a fan of melancholy, but this just feels so flat out like a man, who believes himself to be far more brilliant and superior in thought than anyone else, so to not lose his mind, he kill’s himself. I hate flat depth. He is not deep, he is shallow. But then again it is complicated, the man has problems and he was a human and no one should feel the way like killing themselves, but then again I also got major ickies from lots of chapters of his book. Maybe it’s better in Japanese. I will have to see and read it again sometime.
carsonbarson's review against another edition
5.0
Beautifully simplistic in a way that extends to any reader. Unique but not overbearing. One-of-a-kind, but unoriginal in a way where anybody can understand. Emotional but robotic. Thoroughly expressive in the right ways and thoroughly vague where it needs to be. Near perfect.
fluctuating_planes's review against another edition
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
hanna_j98's review against another edition
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0