Title: Not at all what I expected.
Product review: While at the beginning I enjoyed what seemed to be a very different, manic, poetic take on Tokyo, I soon found myself skimming entire paragraphs and pages of non-sequitur. The author's descriptions are inaccurate at times and ludicrous at others. How exactly could FujiTV be "under" you as you travel the Rainbow Bridge? Hikarigaoka, desolate?And how is it that more half the description of Shibuya could be only about the pervasiveness of English in Tokyo? Avant-garde, yes, and I was thrilled to see someone invest such rich description in a book about the city I so love, but Mr. Barber's Tokyo is clearly very different from mine. Perhaps a more jaded expat than I would find it good reading rather than slowly infuriating, but hard to say.If you are looking for a travel book (as this seems to be erroneously labeled, both on its cover and in the section of the library where I happened across it), look elsewhere.
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