Quizlet:
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Monday, October 13, 2025
Started: Read Real Japanese: Fiction edited by Michael Emmerich [I started this book years ago but never finished it. There are actually two books in this series--the fiction one and the essays one. The essays one I kept with me for several years--I mentioned it on this blog before here, here--before finally getting rid of it in this post here. I've decided to give studying Japanese another try, but I'm going to start out with the fiction one.)
Quizlet:
Quizlet:
Kawakami's writing style resembles the manga Oyasumi Punpun, for lack of good words to describe.
ReplyDeleteBoth her and Otsuichi's stories are mundane. Otsuichi is the very example of cheap horror I last criticized on a related post (although in this case it may not even be horror). His short story is not bad, but not good either - good idea but would have been better with more quality writing or introspection, maybe.
I got fed up by the third author.
I will say this again and again without being ironic at all: Japanese 2D culture has much better writing prowess than their entire tradition of literature throughout their entire history. Minato Kanae (surname -> given name) is the only contemporary non-light novel author I think I can recommend to people.
Great book only when your internet is cut off and your predicament is something like being in a jail.