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xxxHolic: AnotherHolic
Oct. 30th, 2008 09:21 amWoke up slightly early this morning, so finished off the last section of xxxHOLiC: AnotherHOLiC
. My overall impression of the book? Not good. It's three short stories bundled together, the first of which was also printed in the Faust anthology I reviewed here a while back, but which I apparently forgot to tag so I can't find it. The first two stories have a small bit of plot, but mostly consist of Yuuko explaining things to Watanuki, and the third story consists of what is either some sort of strangely knowledgeable man or a random street crazy explaining his wacky view of the world to Watanuki. There may have been some sort of forward movement in there somewhere, but if there was, I missed it. I much preferred NISIOISIN's Death Note novel, because stuff actually happened there.
Anyway, overall my opinion of Anotherholic is that the footnotes were the best part of the book, and the rest was written by someone a little too impressed with his own genius to bother with things like character and plot.
. My overall impression of the book? Not good. It's three short stories bundled together, the first of which was also printed in the Faust anthology I reviewed here a while back, but which I apparently forgot to tag so I can't find it. The first two stories have a small bit of plot, but mostly consist of Yuuko explaining things to Watanuki, and the third story consists of what is either some sort of strangely knowledgeable man or a random street crazy explaining his wacky view of the world to Watanuki. There may have been some sort of forward movement in there somewhere, but if there was, I missed it. I much preferred NISIOISIN's Death Note novel, because stuff actually happened there. Anyway, overall my opinion of Anotherholic is that the footnotes were the best part of the book, and the rest was written by someone a little too impressed with his own genius to bother with things like character and plot.
