BEFORE YOU READ THIS BOOK you must know: this is NOTHING like the anime. If that's what you want, move along.Why do I give this book a 4? I suppose because it's one of those pieces that left me going, "WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST READ?"That is to say, there are some positive points from a literary p...
So, it's not actually a novel, but, rather, two novellas compilled into one book. One is the famous "The Girl who Leaps through the Time", and one is a story called "The Stuffs that Nightmares are Made of".First of all, Tsutsui seems to understand how to withhold the plot sequence and makes the r...
Perhaps unsurprisingly, this book is a bit weird.It's a collection of short stories, and I liked some of them. But others went beyond the realm of weird and vaulted into stupid. I also got the impression that Tsutsui has some issues with women. 'Salmonella Men..' was first published in 1979, so m...
A wonderful collection of stories making up a short novel starring a maid who can read minds. The book is broken up into eight stories, each one a story of a different family the maid works for. The book blends elements of psychology and the paranormal in a variety of wonderfully creepy and ent...
I really enjoyed this book, but I feel somewhat torn about trying to give it a rating (I'd say 2.5 ish?). There's a decidedly male voice throughout the stories; I think I might go so far as to say that "maleness"/masculinity is a characteristic of nearly every story. Tsutsui's characters cannot...
“Would you mind coming over?” he said in a tremulous little voice like a mosquito’s hum. “Why? Is something wrong? Has something happened?” I asked. “Well… You know,” he mumbled, then said nothing for a moment. He seemed to be looking for the right words. “Well, I’ll tell you when you get here.” ...