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    <body><![CDATA[In the Miso Soup follows the 20-year-old tour guide Kenji in the nights leading up to New Year’s as he shows Japan’s sex district to an American tourist who happens to be a pathological liar and may be responsible for the grisly murder and cutting-up-in-bits of a school-age prostitute (yes, your...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3013055">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So scary, creepy-crawly flesh tingling, ickily real scary.  I don't know anyone I would recommend this graphic of book to, but if you like, say, <em>Sin City</em> or gory chop 'em up flicks, this might be the book for you.  <br/>Be warned, you won't be able to put it down, until you see murders happen behin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24988589">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, this is the last Japanese book I'm reading for a while. Fuck me, this had me emailing my brother who lived in Japan for a year, asking him what the fuck is wrong with Japanese writers. His answer? Japan is all twisted, that's why I love it. Heh. <br/><br/>Although this book offered much more i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27196543">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel about a sex industry tour guide (Kenji) in the seedier section of Tokyo's night districts and his strange American client (Frank) can be read as a straight up hard boiled psychological thriller or as a richly symbolic allegory.<br/>Both characters act as respective epitomes of their post...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17029929">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the creepiest books I've ever read. I don't get creeped out very easily but this did it. I hate the comparisons to &quot;Silence of the Lambs&quot; because IN THE MISO SOUP is so much less dramatic and more real.<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kenji is a nightlife guide, escorting foreign tourists – gaijin – around the Kabuki-cho red light district of Tokyo, with its hostess bars, peep shows, love hotels and other, darker, attractions. It’s not exactly a respectable line of work, but it pays well and after two years he knows most of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48218418">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;In The Miso Soup&quot; by Ryu Murakami is not the kind of book that you bring home to meet your parents. It is lurid. It is frightening. It is unpredictable. Murakami plucked ordinary words out of nowhere and arranged them into a simple, matter-of-fact horror. Like a smiling child with a box o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44962912">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dipping yet again into the Japanese noir fiction I’ve been drawn to ever since I read Natsuo Kirino’s Out, I just finished In the Miso Soup while at the beach this past week. Ryu Murakami tells the dark story of a few days in the life of an unlicensed Japanese tour guide. Kenji, the narrator, is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38686275">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the beginning I said that I expect a lot from this Japanese sex book. The truth is, until now, I've never experienced full blown tension attack while reading some book. <br/><br/>This book is horribly disturbing, and my anxiety wasn't connected with sex. I would feel happy if I was shocked with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72325521">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a chilling short story about life in the Tokyo sex induistry. I had put off reading this book after reading the back of it several times and being a little scared of it, however having read it now, all bar one horrific scene which seemed to totally captivate me (which is what i found a most disturbi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45537015">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ryu Murakami's a one. He'll dish out some sentimental schmaltz like &quot;69&quot; and then he'll bang you between the eyes with &quot;In The Miso Soup&quot;.<br/><br/>A Tokyo sex-life guide finds himself in the clutches of Frank (might be his name, might not). Frank is nuts, and we, the reader, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15821467">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading this novel is like going to McDonald, buying a Big Mac and finding a severed eyeball under the bun....Then putting the bun back on and eating it, eyeball and all. What starts out as a sleazy, guilty pleasure of a pulp novel about an American tourist and his guide visiting the Tokyo pleasure ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78040638">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Aug 21 08:08:07 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[frank is not a good man. and yet for some reason i am on his side from the start. and it's not told from his p.o.v., so i'm not sure what this says about me. anyway, there's a lot of killin' in this book. some of it is pretty gross. like, as in, american psycho gross. only not as repetitive. and yet...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68332658">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't like this book. The writing style is terrible but that might be because of the translator (I read the Dutch version).<br/><br/>The so called critique on the shallowness of Japanese society fires back at the author by his childish, shallow psychological analysis of the main character(s). A...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79738715">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yowza! What can I say about this book? What should I say? Kenji is a tour guide for foreigners visiting Tokyo, but not your ordinary tour guide; he's a sex industry tour guide specializing in providing excursions into the many different type of sex clubs and shops in the sleazy part of town. His Ame...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52981203">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Este é um livro relativamente pequeno (200 páginas), rápido e fácil de ler - mas não necessariamente fácil de digerir. O livro fala-nos da vida nocturna no Japão, mas não só. Acaba por ser também uma viagem à mente de um assassino e ajuda-nos a perceber um pouco mais da complexidade que l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49866074">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I began reading this book reluctantly one night and as each page turned and the story became more twisted and disturbing I just couldn't put it down - literally! The dread builds so much as the story gains momentum (leading up to the truly shocking massacre scene, a chapter i'll never forget!) that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80213700">more...</a>]]></body>
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