A review by beesarenotflies
The Tatami Galaxy by Tomihiko Morimi

2.0

I didn't love this book. The structure is interesting, but the main character is at best boring and, at worst, self-important, weak willed, and insufferable. It would almost have been better to read a book about the evil best friend Ozu. He's a creep, but at least he's out there scheming and plotting. Our guy just spends his time navel gazing and hovering one rejection away from becoming an Incel.

I finally got to the end, and there wasn't even... a point to this tedium. I honestly felt like the narrator; trapped in the same depressing location for 80 days. I almost gave it 3 stars for the unique premise, but then I remembered the main character started having conversations with his own dick and his dick answered back in full sentences. Yikes.