From: miles@gnu.org   
      
      Title:	（大æ�±äº¬ï¼‰ãƒ“ンボー 生活 マニュアル   
      Author:	剠  
   å·�ã�¤ã�‹ã�•	(Maekawa Tsukasa)   
      Publisher:	講談者	        (Koudansha)   
      
   This book is from the '80s but it showed up in the "recommended" list of   
   a bookstore I like, so I checked it out.  It's very nice indeed.   
      
   It has no real plot, and consists of short vignettes about just a guy   
   living in a very small cheap apt in Tokyo, who apparently only has the   
   occasional odd job so he's very poor (his girlfriend apparently _does_   
   have a job because she's always the one who's paying for things).   
      
   Though nothing really ever happens, the stories are simply very nicely   
   done and almost lyrical at times.  They're very atmospheric and   
   evocative of Tokyo, and many of them are quite romantic in a low-key   
   sort of way.   
      
   The Tokyo of the book is that of the 1980s though, and is a slightly   
   different place; some of the places described have since gone or changed   
   greatly, and this enhances the vaguely melancholic and nostalgic tone of   
   the stories.  It's not overdone though, so one doesn't get the feeling   
   of wallowing in nostalgia [*].   
      
   Anyway, recommended.   
      
   -Miles   
      
      
   [*] As some of you who have seen my past postings probably can tell, I   
   like this kind of thing generally -- but I really hate it when it's   
   forced and overdone!   
      
   --   
   [|nurgle|]  ddt- demonic? so quake will have an evil kinda setting? one that   
               will  make every christian in the world foamm at the mouth?   
   [iddt]      nurg, that's the goal   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)