Title: Implausible and a difficult read
Product review: I fell for the marketing hype and bought this new novel. I didn't think I was going to get another "Shogun", but I did think I would be getting a good read. Instead the book turned out to be very difficult to read...definitely not a page turner.The editor spent too much time trying to make the prose avant garde by adding all kinds of literary devices. Instead of the desired effect, it just tires the reader. The plot also had too many baroque elements to it. The idea of a Western gunfighter in Japan was laughable and totally absurd. Also, it was kind of silly to make Genji somehow clairvoyant. I honestly don't see how this book ever got published by Delacorte Press.
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