I really should have knocked this one out in a couple of days (certainly not as many as ten!). It has only five chapters and moves pretty well. It’s—well, it’s Haruhi Suzumiya, which means that it’s a juvenile novel (more irritatingly so here than in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, what with reminding the audience who everyone is every page or so)—but it’s also surprisingly smart. As a matter of fact, it occurred to me that Haruhi finds herself in a similar predicament to that of Binx Bolling ("The Moviegoer")—she is dissatisfied with the modern world, and tries to correct that dissatisfaction through the movies. In Haruhi’s case, she decides to actually make a movie, and so alters the nature of reality itself. Very similar, in fact, to what movies actually do—to what art and literature actually do as well—making the inconceivable conceivable and recreating the world. The joke at the end isn’t really effective, since Haruhi already exists in an impossible world (in fact, Koizumi once posits an impartial observer looking into their world and considering it fiction, suggesting an infinite regress of narrative, or something like that). In all, a pretty smart read.