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> Have you read his earlier novels?
> They're all clunkers.
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His works, I understand, have received great acclaim. I never expected that
they would read like either a poor translation or a budding novelist in
need of a teacher and editor. Now that I think about it, the Tengo
narrative can be read as...well...it does build a triangle of sorts around
exactly this kind of relationship. But the Green Beans narrative is quite
awkward; the characters are described as if the author needs to push
certain facts about them out at us so that we don't miss them. At the same
time, I never expected that Green Beans would kill anyone. was I missing
something about her? Did any of the seemingly forced characterizations
matter? For example, we are told things about her abilities to remember, to
connect, but then we can't quite make out, since she can't either, why she
recalls certain things or makes certain connections. The work is, like the
high school girl's story, full of promise, dense with story-teller's magic,
but it is far from a work that one expects from a novelist who has been
sold to us as a genius novelist. Or is it the translation?
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