No time right now to review the review, but here is Japan Times on In Appropriate. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fb20110731a1.html UPDATE: Just for fun, here are a couple of quotes from Mr Arudou on the novel-writing business: http://twitter.com/#!/arudoudebito/status/35682562680557568 Amazed at just how fast one can write fiction. http://twitter.com/#!/arudoudebito/status/36066851997880320 I was once told that fiction was not my bag, [...]
Tag Archives: in appropriate
"Literary sludge insults child abduction issue"
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on July 31, 2011
57 comments
Another review of In Appropriate by ARUDOU Debito
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on May 25, 2011
105 comments
After one of my readers posted a review in a number of parts in the comments here, he decided to gather them all up and make them into one big review, which Japan Probe has been kind enough to publish: http://www.japanprobe.com/2011/05/25/book-review-in-appropriate-a-novel-of-culture-kidnapping-and-revenge-in-modern-japan/ It puts my humble effort to shame. Thanks Scott for writing it. UPDATE: Mr [...]
Flames of the Week
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on May 14, 2011
130 comments
It’s a while since I’ve done a Flame of the Week, but I hope you find all three here enjoyable! Up first we have a poster who has a serious problem with Hello Work and gets a generous offer to get his story out, but the poster persists and gets for his troubles: Get read [...]
A few odds and ends
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on May 11, 2011
40 comments
Good news: an Indonesian nurse who passed the Japanese nursing exam recently went up to Iwate from Kobe to help. NHK Kobe had a good feature on her last night. Curious news: A Linux user buys In Appropriate and finds it DRMed and not Linux friendly, and asks Mr Arudou for help. Mr Arudou apparently [...]
Canada-bound
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on May 3, 2011
25 comments
In a -filled softball interview, we get a final comment: But I have an overseas research opportunity that’s too good to pass up, so that’s probably where I’ll be in 2012.
White man Buddha belly porn
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on April 17, 2011
26 comments
Mr Arudou’s novel seems to be picking up not just bad reviews, but also interesting tags: Funny, but childish and something I wouldn’t encourage, as I know the bother we have here with our resident troll. I’ve also noticed that the official page on Debito.org takes you directly to the shopping cart, protecting his more [...]
In Appropriate by ARUDOU Debito: a review
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on March 8, 2011
89 comments
This is a difficult book to review; you all know I am going to slag it off, but I have tried to approach it with an open mind. Let’s get the headline quote over and done with: "I couldn’t put it down" I’d better put that in context: "I couldn’t put it down fast enough". [...]
A maple leaf?
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on March 6, 2011
55 comments
Nothing remains a secret when it’s on the web. Rather than steal his bandwidth, here’s two links: http://www.debito.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/inappropriatecoverweb-678×1024.jpg http://www.debito.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/inappropriatebackweb-678×1024.jpg
Politically motivated literary sludge (yes, it’s In Appropriate time again!)
First off, there was a review by Amanda Harlow of Being A Broad of Debito Arudou’s In Appropriate, which is worth a read. Second off, Mr Arudou decided to post about it and other reviews (as well as doing his usual cut’n’paste and linking back to an In Appropriate framing site): But she actually DOES [...]