Comments on: Review: Real World, Natsuo Kirino

By: aartichapati

aartichapati — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 13:54:46 +0000

I totally get what you mean about writing books for adults about teens. It IS hard. This is why even YA can sometimes get on my nerves. I feel like they make such a big deal out of EVERYTHING 😉

By: Anastasia

Anastasia — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 20:20:42 +0000

I have this feeling like translated mysteries aren’t my thing, either? Because I’ve read two Japanese mysteries and didn’t really like them. But then I remember how much I like The Club Dumas (which was translated from Spanish), so possibly it was just those two books I didn’t like maybe. idk????

By: Teresa

Teresa — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 13:25:11 +0000

I’ve only read one Japanese mystery (Devotion of Suspect X), and it was fine, but I didn’t love it. It was a procedural-type mystery, which I don’t generally love in English.

I have one of Kirino’s others books (Out) on my TBR because it sounds more like the kind of thing I like. The premise of this doesn’t appeal to me so much. I have the same problem you do reading about disaffected teenagers. I can get behind it for a while, but only for a while. It sometimes helps if I get the impression that the author knows the characters need to grow up a bit.

I’ll be interested to hear what you think of The Murder Farm. I liked it a lot.

By: Melody

Melody — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:29:42 +0000

Japanese fictions are either a hit or miss for me. I usually find their thrillers dark and disturbing. Some of them are great given the characterisations, but very often the grisly subjects just boggle my mind.