wait, what? All in all, clearly the author is incredibly enamoured with Japan to the point of coming across as a bit of fanboy. I commend him for including all the foul language, gore, defecation, farting, dildos, anal beads. I'm finding it hard to believe people kept committing suicide at the drop of a hat but hey, who's gonna disentangle history from legend on that one? Every actions and every event is there to illustrate these. Ostensibly it's for the benefit of the hero but it's pretty transparent. Most of the time it seems the plot is only a pretence for the author to write about ancient Japanese history and customs and draw comparisons between eastern and western values and religions (some of which is surely a bit too anachronistic). At that point I knew it's going to be a fun book to read. The initial clash and mutual incomprehension was dragging on a bit but when trying to find a woman for the hero to sleep with (him not really into it at that moment) one of the samurai suggests maybe he'd like to fuck a duck. The style is terrible but it's a hard job to write in such a way as to convey the foreignness of the language without making it sound silly. I've been putting it off for ages because people keep badmouthing this book but I think it's unfair.
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