Friday, July 21, 2006

Book 28: Sushi Daze (Payne)

A thoroughly unlikable man leaves a boring life in Toronto to teach English in Japan.

I sometimes forget what "badly written" means, but this book reminds me. Poorly-chosen metaphors abound. For example, "his chest was a barrel of oil" instead of "barrel-chested". These things sound petty taken individually, but several per chapter makes reading unpleasant. I forced myself to finish it. A terrible, terrible book.

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