Title: Confusing, but interesting
Product review: I thought this was an interesting enough book, I finished it quickly, but I found the story a bit confusing. The names of the different students muddled together as I read it. By the end I was left with a bit of a 'so what' feeling. So, the author went through some stupidly harsh training in an organization that seemed rather sad. OK. So what? What did he get out of it? What did he learn?His description of the Aikido organization he was involved with was pretty sad too. All the senior teachers sounded rather pathetic. Like (pathologically sadistic) businessmen putting in time until retirement. As someone with an interest in Aikido, it kind of turned me off the whole thing.I think a bit less reporting and a bit more introspection, as well as a more careful control of the narrative to avoid confusion in the reader, would have made it a better book. It's a bit dated now too, being from the mid 90's.
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