Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American military base. Murakami's image-intensive narrative paints a portrait of a group of friends locked in a destructive cycle of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. The novel is all but plotless, but the raw and often violent prose takes us on a rollercoaster ride through reality and hallucination, highs and lows, in which the characters and their experiences come vividly to life. Trapped in passivity, they g...
Gruesome but interesting
The content is quite gruesome, I had to take a few pauses especially during certain parts of the narration. It's an interesting read and relatively easy grammar-wise. The vocab is the most challenging side of the novel (well, besides the content), but Yomichan makes it an easy challenge. Overall, I enjoyed it. TW for violence, drugs, non consensual sex. The depiction of the scenes is very well detailed.