I preferred fear and other uninvited guests, but still a good book.

This story needed more depth and detail to really do justice to the subject matter.

Man, this book makes me want to read the next book, but it is not written yet.

Some indirect spoilers:

Through water logic, two people are one.
Through water logic, a woman loses and gains back her soul
Through water logic, hey, yay for lesbians and sword fights!

This book needed a lot less orentialism and a lot more talk about the culturebound syndrome of hikkomori. Culture bound syndromes can be a symptom of cultural issues, but I don’t think a lack of Christianity and the banking system not being flexible is that much of interest.

This is the sort of book that should never be made into a movie. The strength of the book is the fact that the central character changes only a little bit- she does gain a better connection with her daughter, and starts to accept more of the past and the future, but in a movie, instead of the subtle changes shown here, it’d be hosed down in sludgy glurge.

Many of the references are dated, so even if a story would have been funny in the time it was printed, it’s much less funny now.

Some good ideas, but I get the impression that this guy is kind of a douche.

I even watched the bonus Kujin Unbalance episode.

Although I’m reading the penguin classics edition with all the notes in it. I love notes in older books, although I wish they’d put them on the bottom of the page instead of the back.

(spoilers) Through this book, we learn that only ghosts can save enabling grandmothers, love withholding man chasing mothers and silly children from themselves