2111218: read in two days, so that is rec. not quite taken as my comics illustrator friend r, but propulsive, pulpy, pomo. and no doubt works best if you have see a lot of 'slasher' horror. it is long, requires some patience, is sort of lit equivalent to 'scream' movies. i do not watch much horror. what is read tend more to the lit end. narrator is 'outsider' and typical 'Cassandra' who warns everyone but in nature of plot no one believes her. some violence, some gore. but i find much more disturbing [book:American Psycho|28676] and [book:Glamorama|9913] for literary work. and then the true horror is what humans en masse can do to other humans, as in genocide etc...
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See All140718: this is read 3 times. this is the book that made his name. it has been translated but i do not know how: a lot of the pleasure is in the voice, the unique version of Nigerian english used, per
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if you like this review, i now have website: www.michaelkamakana.com 220611: this is probably the most academically accurate of the translations I have read of this book, but still prefer commentary o
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220315: 6th review. just cannot help rereading this, though not much new to add, except maybe it is more convincing that life in japanese-controlled territory is good overall, again an easy, flowing r
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