Nakamura's books works just fine with me, I always save them for the sundays, they're short enough to finish in a day. Nakamura's a well known noir wriNakamura's books works just fine with me, I always save them for the sundays, they're short enough to finish in a day. Nakamura's a well known noir writer in Japan (not that I reside there or something). I've read four of his books so far and I can see how they can be best-selling books there, but when it comes to English version of the same books, they just seem so bland. All of his books has these lonely, nihilistic main characters. A prostitute, pick pocketer, a taxi driver, photographer, they're all alone, or obsessed with something abnormal. Nakamura blends philosophy, mystery, noir, and satire together, but fails with the lack of details, it mostly has to do with short length of his books. He brings up authors from non Japanese literature in his books a lot, Dostoyevsky, De Sade, Truman Capote etc. While I always end up having mixed feelings about his books, I find myself picking his another book sooner.
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Nakamura's books works just fine with me, I always save them for the sundays, they're short enough to finish in a day. Nakamura's a well known noir writer in Japan (not that I reside there or something). I've read four of his books so far and I can see how they can be best-selling books there, but when it comes to English version of the same books, they just seem so bland. All of his books has these lonely, nihilistic main characters. A prostitute, pick pocketer, a taxi driver, photographer, they're all alone, or obsessed with something abnormal. Nakamura blends philosophy, mystery, noir, and satire together, but fails with the lack of details, it mostly has to do with short length of his books. He brings up authors from non Japanese literature in his books a lot, Dostoyevsky, De Sade, Truman Capote etc. While I always end up having mixed feelings about his books, I find myself picking his another book sooner....more
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