Title: Too stereotypical and bloody
Product review: I forced myself to read it, and I don't think the book's that good. Here are some of the problems: prose is difficult to read, not straightforward; too many Japanese and western stereotypes; too bloody (why massacre a whole village of Eta? Samurai were honorable, not genocidal);historically inaccurate (era of wild west gunfighters was 1880s, not 1860); and there were just too many preposterous contrived plot devices (for example, Genji is psychic and sees the future). It seems the author had a good story buried in there somewhere. It's just too bad he had to hide it under all the b.s. and gore. Also, I'd expect much more honesty and a plot with a moral center from a former buddhist monk. Not this hyped garbage.
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