Scan barcode
tiffanyvda's review against another edition
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
phettberg's review against another edition
dark
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
abaugher's review against another edition
4.0
Japanese recession, counter-culture, body piercings, and a bit of S&M. Maybe not so much a teen book, but definitely a scintillating read.
natalumizz's review against another edition
2.0
Not badly written, I just really hated the mc's way of thinking and all the violence...
kyungsoo's review against another edition
dark
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
dennis_j's review
2.0
Oh, so this is Japan? is something I hope no one thinks upon reading this novella. Translated, it gives off vibes of exotism that are hopefully unintentional and without knowing the backround of the author and her purpose for writing this book, it reads better as a character portrait than a depiction of Tokyo underground youth culture. Had it, throughout, been as blunt and detatched as it was anticlimactic I would have enjoyed it more.
sklenenyzvon's review against another edition
challenging
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
almost a 3.5
I wanted to love it and I was almost certain I would, but it was short and sometimes the words almost felt too forced, nevertheless I won't back down from my previous thoughts on Kanehara´s writing. She is an exceptional woman, shocking the reader with her very honest and very graphic prose.
For a debut novel, Snakes and earrings strike a nerve in the readers´ tongues, frantically swaying them at their most vulnerable.x
I wanted to love it and I was almost certain I would, but it was short and sometimes the words almost felt too forced, nevertheless I won't back down from my previous thoughts on Kanehara´s writing. She is an exceptional woman, shocking the reader with her very honest and very graphic prose.
For a debut novel, Snakes and earrings strike a nerve in the readers´ tongues, frantically swaying them at their most vulnerable.x
ellephuonglinhnguyen's review against another edition
4.0
"No. Think about it. God has to be a sadist to give people life."
innodavid's review against another edition
1.0
1 STAR
One of the most disgusting things I've ever suffered through reading.
It has piercings, tattoos, punk, sadism, machocism, pedophilia, cheating, toxic relationships, curses against God, grotesque murder, gay rape, and a whole bunch of other triggers you could think of packed in just a 100+ paged novella.
And there's only three main characters in here. So you could probably guess who might've done those horrific things to whom because the story is just limited to those three.
I usually like weird books, but this one is so disturbingly disgusting that it made me so uncomfortable. Some scenes were also described in such detail you wouldn't normally read about.
The characters are also irredeemable garbages. I could get passed all of the said contents if I got the sense that the author is trying to make a commentary on something, or is probably just writing a satire or a dark realistic fiction based on the ending.
And I was hoping to get the satisfaction from the ending. I didn't care if it went so over-the-top because the story itself is already over dramatic. But I didn't get that. To be honest any ridiculous ending might've sufficed, but no, the author chose the most anticlimactic ending you could ever think of.
It made the whole book pointless because there's no conclusion. It almost felt like I just read someone else's nightmare. It's poorly written, the dialogues tries so hard to be edgy but failed.
I just don't get this book, at all. And I don't wanna ever think about this book again. I wished I could erase it permanently from my memory.
I'm glad I'm not in the minority in this one though. People seemed to find the same problems with it as I had.
“And somewhere inside me I felt an awful feeling that something in my life was coming quietly to an end.”
One of the most disgusting things I've ever suffered through reading.
It has piercings, tattoos, punk, sadism, machocism, pedophilia, cheating, toxic relationships, curses against God, grotesque murder, gay rape, and a whole bunch of other triggers you could think of packed in just a 100+ paged novella.
And there's only three main characters in here. So you could probably guess who might've done those horrific things to whom because the story is just limited to those three.
I usually like weird books, but this one is so disturbingly disgusting that it made me so uncomfortable. Some scenes were also described in such detail you wouldn't normally read about.
The characters are also irredeemable garbages. I could get passed all of the said contents if I got the sense that the author is trying to make a commentary on something, or is probably just writing a satire or a dark realistic fiction based on the ending.
And I was hoping to get the satisfaction from the ending. I didn't care if it went so over-the-top because the story itself is already over dramatic. But I didn't get that. To be honest any ridiculous ending might've sufficed, but no, the author chose the most anticlimactic ending you could ever think of.
It made the whole book pointless because there's no conclusion. It almost felt like I just read someone else's nightmare. It's poorly written, the dialogues tries so hard to be edgy but failed.
I just don't get this book, at all. And I don't wanna ever think about this book again. I wished I could erase it permanently from my memory.
I'm glad I'm not in the minority in this one though. People seemed to find the same problems with it as I had.