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Title: Leisure Reading
Review: Easy to read, quite interesting, good for leisure reading, positive, and yet not arresting, somehow too simple to be remembered.I read the English translation. Perhaps it misses the freshness of Yoshimoto's simplicity of expression. Anyway, in English, it is too plain.There is nothing wrong with simplicity, though. Good literature does not have to be "deep" or "complicated". This is a good read. But, still, it lack the kind of appeal and power that one would feel reading a great book. It is a pleasure to read this book, but one could hardly make much out of it.By the way, it reminds me of Fumiko Enchi's "Masks", the same kind of spiritual possession.
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