Dacey B. (greyoracle) reviewed What it says on the back: on 12/30/2008

Helpful Score: 1

Incredibly, Maki was still on her feet and still alive, her eyeballs swiveling wildly and her lips quivering as she wheezed foam-flecked blood from the wound in her throat. she seemed to be trying to say something....

It is just before New Year's. Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's sleazy nightlife. But Frank's behavior is so strange that Kenji begins to entertain the suspicion-that his new client is in fact the serial killer currently terrorizing the city. It is not until later, however, that Kenji learns exactly how much he has to fear and how irrevocably his encounter with this great whale of an American will change his life.


Opinion:

I've never read any other Ryu Murakami books before. What I can say is that it is very very graphic. I'd compare it to the level of violence in "American Psycho". Even in all of this, it brings a hypnotic feeling along with that of unease. I felt like my soul need a little scrubbing after reading this....I think that's the only way I can describe it. Still, I feel in a literary sense, that it was quite good.

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