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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
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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.
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