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It has jeremy written all over it...

posted by jeremyz @ 10:10 PM 0 comments

3 Books 3 Reads 3 Months

1. Strangers
An eerie ghost story written with hynotic clarity: quickly paced, intelligent and haunting.
by Taichi Yamada

Harada is a divorced TV scriptwriter living in a huge Tokyo apartment. Filled with businesses during the day, he begins to suspect that he is alone in the building at night. Betrayed by his business partner, his loneliness grows until he decides to take a sentimental journey back to his childhood haunts. Both his parents were killed in a tragic automobile accident, but he was raised well by grandparents and uncles. While wandering about in the changed landscape, he meets a likeable man in a comedy club who bears an astonishing resemblance to his father. On a whim, he accompanies the man to his home where a dead-ringer for his mother waits. The visit is strangely empowering.


2. Welcome to Hell
One man's fight for life inside the Bangkok Hilton
by Colin Martin

Colin Martin’s autobiography chronicles an innocent man’s struggle to survive inside one of the world’s most dangerous prisons. After being swindled out of a fortune, Martin was let down by, in his opinion, a hopelessly corrupt Thai police. Forced to rely upon his own resources, he tracked down the man who conned him and, drawn into a fight, accidentally stabbed and killed that man’s bodyguard.

Martin was arrested, brutally tortured by the Thai Tourist Police, denied a fair trial, convicted of murder and thrown into prison – where he remained for 8 years.

Honest and often disturbing – but told with a surprising humour – Welcome to Hell is the remarkable story of how Martin was denied justice again and again. In this extraordinary account he describes the swindle, his arrest and vicious torture by police, the unfair trial, and the 8 years of brutality and squalor he was forced to endure.

3. Out
What happens when you cross the line...
by Natsuo Kirino

Four women, co-workers on the night shift at a box lunch factory on the outskirts of Tokyo, form an unlikely friendship based on their mutual desperation -a dissatisfaction with their inattentive, unresponsive husbands and disaffected children, strained economic situations and emotional isolation. When Yayoi Yamamoto, a young wife and mother kills her abusive, philandering spouse, the four come together voluntarily to perform a most grisly act. They dismember the body to facilitate disposal. Although of disparate ages and characters, the women become quite bound to one another through an increasing web of conspiracy, self-interest and suspicion. A series of indiscretions and careless mistakes expose them all to unforeseeable dangers.

posted by jeremyz @ 8:32 AM 0 comments

This Is Awesome!

It's a Mac interface on my XP!! Whooo-hooo!!!

posted by jeremyz @ 1:24 AM