All starts are good and bright (damning reviews, masturbation, tea ceremony)

The first 'full' (I think) review of The Kasahara School of Nihilism has appeared.
Read it here if you want.
It is damning.
The woman that wrote it ghost writes YA novels.
She praises Murakami a lot in the review.
She talks maybe more about Murakami than about the book she is 'reviewing' (mine).

Here are some choice quotes about how awful the book is:

'not one of these characters managed to startle, perturb, or otherwise move me to the extent May Kasahara did in even a single scene of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.'

'Again and again, this fiction steps from its knife’s edge of plotline into total incomprehensibility.'

'The characters’ streams of consciousness sound like they were extracted after a heavy dosing of sodium amytal'

'deciphering this author’s motivations is beyond my limited powers of comprehension.'

That last one is my favourite maybe. It seems to mean 'i didnt get it at all. it was bad'.

Here is the single nice comment in the review:

'Even the repeat appearances of a god-like bear didn’t pique my curiosity enough to keep me turning the pages. Although the book lurches closest to humor and charm in this creature’s company (in one nice exchange, the teens’ schoolteacher, feeling insignificant, complains, “Sometimes I shrink into my own palm,” to which the bear commiserates, “Paw"), these moments arise out of such a jumbled context that the any poignant absurdity is lost. '

Anyway, review seemed good and disinterested and i enjoyed reading it. i made a cup of tea to drink to while reading it.

If reading this review has made you want to purchase the book then you can do so
from Fugue State Press
or from Amazon

I cannot go on hotmail from this computer. At the moment this computer is all I have. That is why I have not been able to reply to things. Will get on hotmail soon probably. my gmail is cernisdead at gmail.com anyway so yea.

Here is a paragraph from something I will submit probably to pop serial

' Once the penguins are gone Del Sparto carries slum back to the hide. He doesnt see Sprake, only Treblinka moving up caravan steps, pulling scabs off the undersides of her wings, then Gabriel Pope throwing crates down in the hide. He gives the bear a nod and goes out to the boneyard. Del Sparto's thinking that he doesnt want the Lizard to come tonight (she goes to Bullface some, and Bantam, rarely stays bedded with Sprake) and he's thinking can Lilico get out later. '

Seems random like that i guess. okay, have fun everyone