2012年8月10日金曜日

ねじまき少女 上 (ハヤカワ文庫SF)
パオロ・バチガルピ 鈴木康士
4150118094
I've read Nejimaki-syoujyo(The Windup Girl, written by Paolo Bacigalupi) . This book is widely known as a new great cyber-punk SF. I agree it is splendid novel, but i wonder if it is a SF...
  First of all,  it is not so fictional. The stage is near-future Thailand, but political situation is so much like real Thailand.

2012年8月7日火曜日



氷菓 (角川文庫)
米澤 穂信 上杉 久代
4044271011

I finished the Koten-bu(classic literature club) series by Honobu Yonezawa .
I'm not a fan of mystery novels, but this series are pretty good.

Honobu Yonezawa always picks up relatively small incidents such as 'who locked the door?', or  'why a certain book is rent on certain days?'. but these initially seemingly trivial matters finally turned out to have surprisingly meaning.

And characters he made are slightly different from ordinary mystery hero or heroin. They are, more or less, hesitate to behave like a detective.For example, Kobato Jotarou, the main character of the other series by Yonezawa, always does NOT try to solve problems around him. Moreover, He wants to live as a syo-shimin(an ordinary citizen) , and believe that running into troubles and trying to resolve it are  unsuitable behavior as sho-shimin.