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Entertaining But Challenging to Read
This was quite the read. I liked the beginning, with the engaging murder mystery, and the end, with all of its twisty developments, but all of the science-y jargon in the middle wasn't my cup of tea. Not in English, and certainly not in Japanese! Add onto the fact that this book is from the 1950s, has NO readings for ANY of the kanji and often uses archaic kanji and older vocabulary, and it's a recipe for slow reading.
Language difficulties aside, the main character is (intentionally) a terribl