Well, from the first story (“Yeye’s Girl”) to the last (“Third Uncle’s Apartment”), I found this collection to be so much more than I thought it would be and very personal too (Throughout, I felt like the narrators were directly talking to me and sharing their deepest secrets). These are mostly flash or very short story length but that worked for me and added to the sense that a real person was telling the tale. And this in turn made the horrifying, magical, and sometimes science fiction stories in here all the more unsettling. This book is, for lack of a better word, “mystical,” and reminds me of something the Chinese writer Lin Yutang once said: “Any branch of knowledge, whether it be a study of rocks or minerals or cosmic rays, strikes mysticism as soon as it reaches any depth.”
This book by digging into the occult, the shamanic, and paranormal mysteries, hits very deep indeed.
I don't know what else to say here.This book reads like ancient tales that have magically and stunningly transformed into contemporary ones. It’s gorgeously human, challenging in the best of ways, innovatively and bravely conceived (in the best punk rock of ways), and utterly eye-opening.The questions the witnesses ask after their encounters also made me ask questions too, ones I haven't asked in years. I kind of feel like my sense that the world ismagical has returned to me because of this book.
Buy this book. Read this book. Give it to your friends. It’s surprising, gorgeous, nightmarish,and mystical. Bravo to the translators. Thank you too.
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These stories, touched me, made me think, and also freaked me and my cat out！
Well, from the first story (“Yeye’s Girl”) to the last (“Third Uncle’s Apartment”), I found this collection to be so much more than I thought it would be and very personal too (Throughout, I felt like the narrators were directly talking to me and sharing their deepest secrets). These are mostly flash or very short story length but that worked for me and added to the sense that a real person was telling the tale. And this in turn made the horrifying, magical, and sometimes science fiction stories in here all the more unsettling. This book is, for lack of a better word, “mystical,” and reminds me of something the Chinese writer Lin Yutang once said: “Any branch of knowledge, whether it be a study of rocks or minerals or cosmic rays, strikes mysticism as soon as it reaches any depth.” This book by digging into the occult, the shamanic, and paranormal mysteries, hits very deep indeed.I don't know what else to say here.This book reads like ancient tales that have magically and stunningly transformed into contemporary ones. It’s gorgeously human, challenging in the best of ways, innovatively and bravely conceived (in the best punk rock of ways), and utterly eye-opening.The questions the witnesses ask after their encounters also made me ask questions too, ones I haven't asked in years. I kind of feel like my sense that the world ismagical has returned to me because of this book.Buy this book. Read this book. Give it to your friends. It’s surprising, gorgeous, nightmarish,and mystical. Bravo to the translators. Thank you too.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2021
This book by digging into the occult, the shamanic, and paranormal mysteries, hits very deep indeed.
I don't know what else to say here.This book reads like ancient tales that have magically and stunningly transformed into contemporary ones. It’s gorgeously human, challenging in the best of ways, innovatively and bravely conceived (in the best punk rock of ways), and utterly eye-opening.The questions the witnesses ask after their encounters also made me ask questions too, ones I haven't asked in years. I kind of feel like my sense that the world ismagical has returned to me because of this book.
Buy this book. Read this book. Give it to your friends. It’s surprising, gorgeous, nightmarish,and mystical. Bravo to the translators. Thank you too.
These stories, touched me, made me think, and also freaked me and my cat out！
Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2021
Well, from the first story (“Yeye’s Girl”) to the last (“Third Uncle’s Apartment”), I found this collection to be so much more than I thought it would be and very personal too (Throughout, I felt like the narrators were directly talking to me and sharing their deepest secrets). These are mostly flash or very short story length but that worked for me and added to the sense that a real person was telling the tale. And this in turn made the horrifying, magical, and sometimes science fiction stories in here all the more unsettling. This book is, for lack of a better word, “mystical,” and reminds me of something the Chinese writer Lin Yutang once said: “Any branch of knowledge, whether it be a study of rocks or minerals or cosmic rays, strikes mysticism as soon as it reaches any depth.”Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2021
This book by digging into the occult, the shamanic, and paranormal mysteries, hits very deep indeed.
I don't know what else to say here.This book reads like ancient tales that have magically and stunningly transformed into contemporary ones. It’s gorgeously human, challenging in the best of ways, innovatively and bravely conceived (in the best punk rock of ways), and utterly eye-opening.The questions the witnesses ask after their encounters also made me ask questions too, ones I haven't asked in years. I kind of feel like my sense that the world ismagical has returned to me because of this book.
Buy this book. Read this book. Give it to your friends. It’s surprising, gorgeous, nightmarish,and mystical. Bravo to the translators. Thank you too.
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