Explore Book Girl And The Suicidal Mime Depicted By Mizuki Nomura Presented In Paper Edition
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. A book that involves a bookstore or library
Mặc dù light novel không nhất thiết phải là tiểu thuyết chuyển thể từ truyện tranh, nhưng Cô gái văn chương và tên hề thích chết quả là giống cuốn sách dùng từ ngữ để diễn giải một manga, hay giống một nhận định tôi đọc được nói rằng đọc nó giống như đọc một manga không có tranh vẽ vậy.
Amano Tooko và Takeda Chia ở những phân đoạn đầu được xây dựng y như mấy cô nàng trong shoujo dành cho các bé tuổi teen, chưa kể một số chi tiết cũng truyện tranh không kém.
Tôi qua cái tuổi ấy mất mấy năm rồi, hơn nữa còn là người tương đối thực tế nên không thích những tính cách drama hóa kiểu này cho lắm.
Nhưng bỏ qua những chuyện ấy thì Cô gái văn chương đọc khá ổn đó chứ,
Bên cạnh nét tươi sáng và mềm mại của một manga dành cho thiếu nữ thì Cô gái văn chương cũng mang những chi tiết khá là tối tăm.
Truyện có những cái chết, những âm mưu, những vụ giết người trực tiếp hoặc gián tiếp.
. . , được an bài dựa trên tiểu thuyết Thất lạc cõi người của Dazai Osamu, mà tôi nghĩ là khá khéo léo khi không gây cảm giác quá phụ thuộc hoặc quá gượng gạo khi phải cách nào đó gắn kết với danh tác của Dazai.
Mà chi tiết tôi thấy kinh khủng nhất là .
Thế nên cái twist mặc dù khá nhẹ nhàng nhưng không làm tôi thấy hụt hẫng cho lắm nữa vì sự u tối ở những chương cuối đã khiến tổng thể truyện có chiều sâu ngoài mong đợi rồi.
Chuyện này nói ra nghe có vẻ hơi mean nhưng tôi thích những đoạn Konoha dập tắt cái sự kịch trong hành động Tooko ghê.
Nó vừa thỏa mãn cái sự nghiêm túc của tôi, nhưng chính cách viết của tác giả ở những chi tiết này cũng dễ thương sao á.
Inoue Konoha là một nhân vật tôi thấy thích, Ơn giời cậu ta cũng khá bình thường chứ chưa thấy bị điên hay tự kỉ hay gì.
Còn một điều nữa là rất không hài lòng với cách biên tập của Thái Hà khi quá lạm dụng kí tự , khiến quyển sách in trông trẻ trâu như mấy cái teenfic chất lượng thấp nhan nhản trên mạng ấy.
Chưa kể nó cũng chả có ý nghĩa gì trong văn bản, không thể thay thế dấu câu được.
I've read things with odd premises before, but the Book Girl series is near the top of the list,
The titular "book girl" Tohko is a literature loving and eating goblin in schoolgirl form who force recruited our main character Konoha into joining the school book club to hand write her snacks.
If this sounds too weird to wrap your head around, you're in luck, If you find it intriguing and can't wait to learn more, you'll be disappointed, Tohko and her unusual existence are just background noise for this particular story, which instead focuses on the more normal well, human anyway Konoha, a strange request from a classmate to ghost write love letters and a mystery connected to the works of an particular author.
Fair warning despite the absurd elements and the great touches of humor sprinkled in the themes are quite heavy and this is not a happygolucky tale.
I really liked the story, There are a lot of interwoven layers and interesting twists and parallels, The different narration techniques used really draw you in, even if it's quite confusing at times, There's something particularly engaging about the interactions of our two leads and the tone of the story,
The writing has a great feel to it and wonderful turns of phrase doubly impressive for a translation, As an example, the narrator had me hooked two paragraphs into the prologue when I read the line "I simply dusted my dark wool in white powder and pretended I was a white sheep too.
" I will admit it gets wordy, especially when Tohko starts rambling about books, So if overly detailed descriptions test your patience this might not be your cup of tea,
While I can understand disappointment that Tohko is not the central focus and thus the promotional description is a bit misleading, it didn't bother me.
I enjoyed this as it was and there's room for more about Tohko later in the series,
There's enough strangeness here between the unusual mythology being built, the lack of focus on that same mythology, and the dense interconnected plot threads that Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime is tough to generally recommend.
But the writing is quite strong and if you can deal with it's quirks it is certainly worth a try, Personally I will be continuing with Tohko and Konoha's adventures, Bungaku Shoujo Literature Girl, ou Book Girl é uma light novel japonesa que foi adaptada para alguns filmes, Conheci a obra pelos filmes, e agora venho a ler os livros,
No começo a obra é um tanto confusa, com algumas seções que descrevem relatos cujo autor não se sabe quem é.
A incógnita da identidade do autor é trabalhada com bastante habilidade pela autora com seus personagens para que o mistério seja desvendado, Ainda assim, é muito pouco texto para que sejam trabalhados todos os personagens importantes e suas relações uns com os outros, mas já se nota algum avanço, tanto no desenvolvimento dos sentimentos do personagem principal e de suas ambições como autor e membro do clube do livro.
Where to begin I have often found that Japanese light novels, translated to English, can be much more of a 'love them or hate them' sort of thing.
They are meant for a younger crowd equal to young adult novels and culturally speaking Japanese high schoolers are in a different league then their American counterparts.
So when reading a light novel series, set in a Japanese high school, a lot of readers are unable to understand the significance of something as small as being seen talking with a younger classmate or seating next to a certain someone.
Suicidal Mime is a novel filled with despair and secrets, Konoha is a withdrawn, false sort of guy, He pastes a fake smile on his face, tries to keep people placated and inwardly is disgusted by his behavior, He wasn't always like this, but a tragic love in middle school coupled with a nervous breakdown from instant and intense celebrity has made him hard and brittle.
He doesn't want the sort of responsibility that comes with loving someone or being loved, He keeps his relationships as shallow as possible,
Tohko, who other than her strange appetites is as normal as anyone else, is just as secretive and complex, Outwardly she is bubbly and bossy, pushing Konoha to keep writing her stories to devour and constantly hungry, but briefly you can see some truer feelings.
The despair she feels over Konoha's continued isolation and withdrawal, her efforts to help others, the loneliness she feels, Her urgent need to help Chia Takeda at first seems entirely selfish, but over the course of the novel little remarks she makes or looks on her face reveal she has a deeper agenda.
One of the central themes of the book is a Japanese writer's work called No Longer Human, The author, Osamu Dazai led an infamous life, much of which is detailed in Suicidal Mime, No Longer Human is semiautobiographical and said to be his 'suicide note' to the world, Its a dark, bitter memoir of one man's intense desire to connect with the world, but can't no matter what, He pretends at being human and feels ashamed of that, Two of the characters in the novel truly identify with the protagonist of No Longer Human, feeling cut off from the world and separate because they don't understand or because they feel immense guilt over not being as emotional as their peers.
This isn't necessarily a happy book, or a 'light' read, Suicide, love, betrayal, jealousy, death, redemption, . . this novel covers some hefty topics, The translation by Yen Press is excellent it reads very smoothly, I can't attest to some of the pop culture references strewn throughout the novel if they were changed to match American references or not, but those aren't a problem regardless.
The biggest cultural reference that western readers may not get is Osamu Dazai and Tohko talks about him at length at one point,
As a sidenote I agree with Tohko's assessment that you shouldn't read No Longer Human if you are feeling any amount of depression or despair even translated the novel is powerful and provoking.
I prefer his short story collection entitled sitelinkBlue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy available translated into English as part of Kodansha's 'Japan's Modern Writer's series.
“Because its there. ” Inspiring words when used by George Mallory describing his reasons for attempting to climb Mount Everest less so when used to explain why I read this book.
Basically: Id finished the other book I had with me I was facing a long bus ride home from work and wed just cleaned out all the ARCs except for this one, which had arrived that very day.
And hey, it was a Japanese fantasy there could be far worse book/reader matches,
And better ones, This was about as silly as youd imagine, I liked the idea of the book demonan ordinaryseeming high school girl who actually subsists off booksand the bits of literary meta were fun.
But the actual plot, which involved a mystery and past generations of students and suicide and other weirdness, was pretty dull I have forgotten most of it.
Still, it got me through that bus ride, Mallory had less luck with Everest, as I recall, This is one of those books that I struggle to form an opinion on,
Parts of it I enjoyed while others I just stared at it wondering why I was reading this book,
This book is one of those clubs that get involved with things book, You know, the thing that happens in a lot of animes,
The main duo was alright, Konoha had some intrigue with him and he was an alright POV, Tohko is the mysterious girl that follows the beat of her own drum, A very common anime character trope,
Only she's a book eating goblin,
Yeah.
Sometimes I would get bogged down by the scenes of those two together, Some of the events were very farfetched, like the scene where they go get information from a girl named Maki, Which involved Tohko stripping. A lot of eyerolling on my part there,
As for the mystery itself that is the main core of the book, I enjoyed it. I really did.
I'm a huge fan of mysteries in general and although it isn't Kindaichi Case Files level it was still something,
It kept me intrigued enough to keep reading at least!
It also featured sociopathic characters, which as someone in psychology, that stuff interests me.
I feel like my thoughts are so disjointed in this review but honestly, that's how I felt while reading it.
I just kept shifting back and forth from liking it to disliking it and back again, I guess if you watch enough anime and whatnot, you might enjoy this book
Oh! That reminds me, This is actually written very well, A lot of LNs have an odd feel to them in terms of writing style but this was smooth and easy to read,
Apparently this was the only one that was translated though Very sad about that as I feel like I would get a better opinion if I read the second book in the series.
Also this book featured a lot of comments about Osamu Dazai, Which I enjoyed a lot since I kept thinking about this character:
This book also made me feel like I had to check out Dazai's works now! Thank you Tohka! I'd probably recommend it if you like quirky and interesting.
There is a supernatural element, The titular "book girl" physically ingests books and other written materials, and they taste different to her based on the content of the story.
The thing is, it's a series, and each one focuses on some connection between the schoolkid plots of the story and some other story, usually a famous work of literature.
Kind of like Wishbone, if it were a fairly typical Japanese light novel set in where else, a typical Japanese high school, So it's not terrible but I did notice it leans heavily on literary references, It was an enjoyable read, but it has "Ready Player One syndrome" it sometimes feels like a bunch of references to other books more than a book in and of itself.
It made me curious about this story the "suicidal mime" refers to, a story told from the perspective of a teenager who thinks he should kill himself because of his own lack of ability to feel empathy, the fact that he feels like he goes through his whole life faking everything.
This interesting part of the story isn't the author's invention though, but a reference to another book, But then again, it is probably hard to make a book club set story without talking about actual literature, and some of the author's observations about literature are kind of funny.
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