Journal Entry 1 by cats-eye from Bishop Auckland, County Durham United Kingdom on Saturday, June 10, 2006

Book Description (from Amazon.co.uk):

A surreal coming-of-age tale that establishes Ryu Murakami as one of the most inventive young writers in the world today.

Abandoned at birth in adjacent train station lockers, two troubled boys spend their youth in an orphanage and with foster parents on a semi-deserted island before finally setting off for the city to find and destroy the women who first rejected them. Both are drawn to an area of freaks and hustlers called Toxitown. One becomes a bisexual rock singer, star of this exotic demimonde, while the other, a pole vaulter, seeks his revenge in the company of his girlfriend, Anemone, a model who has converted her condominium into a tropical swamp for her pet crocodile.

Together and apart, their journey from a hot metal box to a stunning, savage climax is a brutal funhouse ride through the eerie landscape of late-twentieth-century Japan. 

Journal Entry 2 by cats-eye from Bishop Auckland, County Durham United Kingdom on Saturday, June 10, 2006

TBR - reserved for Sanddanz as part of the Asian Swap 3

ETA: I'll be sending this out to Sand shortly - I haven't finished it...I hit the halfway point and it just lost my interest totally so I've given up :-( I don't necessarily think it's a reflection on the book - I'm just in a bit of a reading slump and *nothing* is pleasing me at the moment!! I hope you have better luck with it than I did, Sand ;-) Enjoy! 

Journal Entry 3 by cats-eye from Bishop Auckland, County Durham United Kingdom on Tuesday, June 20, 2006

posted today via surface mail.