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A review by adbooks20
The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa
2.0
DNF, and as I rarely write reviews unless a book really annoys me, I'll tell you why. Or rather, I'll tell you the main reason for brevity's sake, and you can gather the rest from other reviews that are better written than mine.
My bias here is that I work for a library network that deals mainly in audiobooks (which have been in existence for several decades, and are available all over the world). As such, I was listening to this as an audiobook. I reached the scene with the Mutilator of Books, who argued that people can listen to music while they're doing other things like jogging or whatever, but they can't read books while doing these things. So he was trying to make books more efficient to read by cutting them up. I thought, 'Did you ever hear of audiobooks?? Y'know, like the one I'm listening to right now??' Make it make sense.
I kept waiting for Rintaro to bring that up and offer it to the scholar as a possible solution, but he never did. I listened to that bit twice just to make sure.
I gave it two stars because I liked the general book appreciation, and I thought it had promise at the beginning. But I just couldn't keep going after that aggravation, and it had already started to drag.
My bias here is that I work for a library network that deals mainly in audiobooks (which have been in existence for several decades, and are available all over the world). As such, I was listening to this as an audiobook. I reached the scene with the Mutilator of Books, who argued that people can listen to music while they're doing other things like jogging or whatever, but they can't read books while doing these things. So he was trying to make books more efficient to read by cutting them up. I thought, 'Did you ever hear of audiobooks?? Y'know, like the one I'm listening to right now??' Make it make sense.
I kept waiting for Rintaro to bring that up and offer it to the scholar as a possible solution, but he never did. I listened to that bit twice just to make sure.
I gave it two stars because I liked the general book appreciation, and I thought it had promise at the beginning. But I just couldn't keep going after that aggravation, and it had already started to drag.