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Hunchback
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bookshelves: translated, read-2025, lit-writ-japanese, booker-international, 21st-century
Mar 17, 2025
bookshelves: translated, read-2025, lit-writ-japanese, booker-international, 21st-century
It did make me feel uncomfortable, as it set out to do. It also made me feel ashamed, because, as Ichikawa's narrator points out, disabled women are not seen in a sexual way. So I appreciate and respect the book as a mirror for the reader to see how they do, unconsciously or subconsciously, have some prejudices.
That said, I found the empty storyline holding these ideas together uninteresting. The writing is poor (or perhaps the translation), with emojis and things like, 'He's self-identifying as a beta male. He's probably an incel. Fuck!' I read it in under two hours, but I didn't particularly enjoy any of it, and was impressed by even less.
That said, I found the empty storyline holding these ideas together uninteresting. The writing is poor (or perhaps the translation), with emojis and things like, 'He's self-identifying as a beta male. He's probably an incel. Fuck!' I read it in under two hours, but I didn't particularly enjoy any of it, and was impressed by even less.
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