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A review by adam_mcphee
The Kingdom by Fuminori Nakamura
1.0
How is it that for every great book Nakamura writes, he also comes up with one piece of incomprehensible garbage? I don't get it. For a long time I wanted to blame the translators, but it's the same people translating the books.
It's a very simplistic writing style, and while it comes off as almost Hemingwayesque in The Thief and The Gun, it's childish and ridiculous here. And the philosophizing is dumb (there's a part where someone talks about gnosticism in terms of gods having low level powers, like in video games).
The only reason I even finished the book is because I'd read that this was connected to his magnificent The Thief (without being a sequel or prequel) but it's not much of a connection at all, and even with the book being so short it was a complete waste of time.
It's a very simplistic writing style, and while it comes off as almost Hemingwayesque in The Thief and The Gun, it's childish and ridiculous here. And the philosophizing is dumb (there's a part where someone talks about gnosticism in terms of gods having low level powers, like in video games).
The only reason I even finished the book is because I'd read that this was connected to his magnificent The Thief (without being a sequel or prequel) but it's not much of a connection at all, and even with the book being so short it was a complete waste of time.