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Steve
Oct 16, 2015 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: fiction
The book is a Jungian Hall of Mirrors, with reality slipping this way and that through what is ultimately a noirish labyrinth ruled by Fate. It's best, I think, to not try too hard to connect the dots, and allow "normal guy" Taru Okada be your anchor and guide you through a series of odd events and eccentric characters that would make Dickens (or Alan Moore) sit up and take note. That said, the book is, at heart, a love story and a fairy tale, complete with a monster (or two) and a red vinyl ha ...more
Megan
Jul 31, 2011 rated it liked it
This book was weird. Good, but weird. And I didn't realize just how weird it was until the last hundred or two pages, which soured my enjoyment of it slightly. It might just be that I like South American style magic realism better. Don't get me wrong; I liked the book, or else I wouldn't have slogged through six hundred pages of it, but something about it, I'm not sure what, didn't allow me to go from like to love. ...more
Jenna
Dec 31, 2010 marked it as to-read
Shelves: library
MichelleCH
Apr 13, 2011 marked it as to-read
Shelves: own
Aline Ohanesian
Nov 18, 2011 rated it really liked it
Stacey
Jan 22, 2012 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Dawn
Apr 30, 2012 rated it really liked it
C.
Jul 19, 2012 marked it as to-read
Shelves: recommended
Tanya
Dec 29, 2012 marked it as to-read
Shelves: list-1001-btrbyd
Jessica
Jan 04, 2013 marked it as to-read
Rebekah
Jan 05, 2014 marked it as to-read
Megan
May 10, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Kim DeCina
Dec 30, 2015 marked it as to-read
Crystal
Aug 11, 2018 rated it it was amazing
Kelli
Apr 25, 2016 marked it as to-read
Juliana Philippa
Apr 26, 2016 marked it as to-read
Brandon Fitzgibbon
Sep 25, 2016 rated it it was amazing
Devin Murphy
Nov 23, 2016 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Ren Risi
Jun 29, 2018 rated it it was ok
Camilla Cluett
Jan 13, 2018 marked it as to-read
Meghan
Oct 10, 2018 marked it as to-read
Preeti
May 21, 2019 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition