Yamato
Holden definitely isn't a good person, but he is one of the most interesting characters in literature - every page is dedicated to making this lost, deeply lonely soul feel real. Can definitely see why this is life changing for so many people; your enjoyment of the book is heavily contingent on your enjoyment of Holden though
Deserter is a series of manga short stories written early on in Junji Ito's career.
Junji Ito would go on to become one of the most famous and celebrated manga authors of all time, and it's clear why he became a legend from the very start.
While most of the anthology is relatively weak with dull, boring concepts and pretty bad pacing, the entire anthology is thoroughly enjoyable with Junji Ito's
superb artwork. And when Deserter works, it really works, with the titular “Deserter” short story being an all time great.
Our Wives Under The Sea is not a love story. It is a story about love. It???s about how beautiful love is, how precious all of the little moments spent together are, how you come to learn your lover???s charming quirks and eccentricities. These romantic asides aren???t built into the story for the romance though: They???re built into the story to juxtapose against the harsh coldness between the lovers only a few months later, because in that time, one of them was supposed to be on an oceanic exploration for a few weeks but returned a few months later a completely changed person. It???s not so much the horror it???s advertised as, but rather the aftermath of horror. Both of the protagonists are pushed to their emotional extremes, but refuse to let go of each other. Our Wives Under The Sea is not a love story, it is a story about how fragile love seems and also about how strong it really is, a portrait of a marriage in the face of tragedy, an ode to the seemingly insignificant moments still remembered years later. In a tight 220 pages, Our Wives Under The Sea is a devastating, powerful novel that remains compulsively readable throughout with exceptionally poetic prose and some truly clever chapter breaks (you???ll know what I mean when you see them).
