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The story is well written and it's been superbly translated from Japanese to English. The message given by the story is beautiful. It spreads family love, unity and taking a stand for what's right. The story taught me to speak my mind and to live in the moment as we can't be sure if we will get a chance to tell people that we care for them. Yuuki felt faint all of a sudden. The announcement of the mall's opening had been left out of the paper on the very day it opened. He bowed his head deeply. Thirty years on, this is Joe's gripping record of the illicit relationship that dominated his adolescence and dictated the course of his life. With a heady dose of nineties nostalgia and the perfectly captured mood of those final months at school, Joe charts the enduring legacy of deceit and the indelibility of decisions made at seventeen. Even then, I would recommend this book for readers who love getting facts about actual cases and a writing style that is more journalistic than fictional!
It’s a bit like James Bond without the fancy gadgets, or maybe like Jason Bourne. But I’d like to think that Seventeen can hold his own just fine in the spy environment. That said, I was never really sure I knew where things would end up. It’s such an unpredictable and dangerous lifestyle, and I couldn’t even hazard a guess as to who would survive this crazy cat-and-mouse game. Keeps readers on the edge of their seats through a roller-coaster ride of high-octane action that builds to an explosive finale' SUNDAY EXPRESSDespite the protagonist, who may seemed as a failed journalist and father at the beginning, the author successfully touched the human side of Yuuki - he felt so real and human afterall. I'm gonna be a bit bias here cause this is one of my favorite genre and it was written in a way that every bits worth reading to me. Be it in a hectic messy scene or during a freaking heated argument between Yuuki and Todoroki at the barbecue place, it was so vivid, so real so descriptive yet very intriguing. How Yuuki reminiscing every inch of last seventeen years incident, so gripping and tense. I love the narratives that it always gave me that emotional, nervous and exciting feelings at the same time. It was long but not draggy, it seems like every chapter giving me absolute enjoyment. Vanaf de eerste pagina’s zat ik gelijk in dit verhaal. Zoals elk goed verhaal, is er een aanloop en verwacht dus niet meteen omver geblazen te worden door de ene actie na de andere. En toch, ik zag het allemaal voor mij, zelfs de personages die nog volop hun karakter en verleden moesten blootgeven, kregen toch al een gezicht. Alsof ik een boek lang een super goeie serie gebinged heb. But nobody gets to do this job for long. Because to be the best, you must beat the best, and there are rivals on my tail. You would be right to wear Bermuda shorts shopping in Bermuda, and wrong, wrong, wrong to wear them shopping in New York.”
Maurene Goo is the author of other bestselling titles such as Somewhere Only We Know, The Way You Make Me Feel, and I Believe in a Thing Called Love. Where to buy the book There are echoes here of Kate Elizabeth Russell’s 2020 novel My Dark Vanessa, which tells of an affair between a 15-year-old schoolgirl and her 42-year-old English teacher, and in which the girl sees their relationship as a great love affair rather than statutory rape. But had the police been alerted to Miss P’s activities at the time, she would not have been prosecuted. As Gibson explains in his afterword, it wasn’t until 2000 that it became illegal for a teacher to have a sexual relationship with a pupil aged 16 or 17. And this being the 1990s, words such as grooming and coercion weren’t common parlance, and sexual impropriety was often swept under the carpet. So it proves when Miss P’s colleagues, having got wind of the affair, do nothing to stop it; to them, protecting the reputation of the school is more important than protecting the welfare of its pupils. It’s 1992. Like every other seventeen-year-old boy, Joe has one eye on his studies, the other on his social life – smoking, Britpop, girls. He’s looking ahead to a gap year full of travel and adventure before university when his teacher – attractive, mid-thirties – takes an interest in him. It seems like a fantasy come true. What’s the matter with rich furs? Anything that advertises its astronomical price tag is ostentatious. A raccoon coat—no matter how high its quality—does not flaunt its high price.” Throughout the mission, Seventeen reflects on his life and how he got to be this big, bad assassin. It really helped to get a decent feel for this character, to know where he came from, to see how he came to travel this path few of us would ever consider.What happens when you return from your summer holiday ten pounds heavier? Let us hope the condition is temporary. Meanwhile, you have to dress to minimize.” I have always had a fascination with Japan, as well as Japanese authors, with my favourite writer, Haruki Murakami, hailing from that part of the world, so it was an easy decision to read SEVENTEEN. I love to learn about different cultures and this title educated me in a way that fit within the story, just like Yokoyama's previous release, SIX FOUR, which I also enjoyed immensely.
This main storyline runs parallel to a second one, in which Yuuki's colleague and good friend Anzai, an enthusiastic mountain climber, suffers a cerebral hemorrhage and falls into a vegetative state. 17 years later, Yuuki and Anzai's son climb the mountain that Yuuki and Anzai himself wanted to climb when he was still well. The journey helps Yuuki to come to terms with the things that happened in the office and to his friend 17 years ago, thus intertwining the national disaster with the personal tragedy. Engaging and engrossing, frank and frankly troubling, Seventeen is a book not easily forgotten' - Karen Joy Fowler A gripping and powerful memoir reminiscent of Notes on a Scandal, An Education and My Dark Vanessa*This is a complex novel which takes a bit of time to really settle into. This is partly because the Japanese situation feels a bit clunky to begin with to this western reader, with so many characters and a huge series of interwoven relationships. But once I had overcome my uncertainty, this book held my attention in a strong and steady grip. It is easy to judge journalists in these situations, and some of the characters we get to know certainly are real cynics, but Hideo Yokoyama shows that it is nearly impossible for them to get out of the double-bind: Newspapers need readers and companies which advertise, so they have to present attractive content - the media consumer is always present in this book, as a looming invisible power, as a caller and as a letter writer. It is obvious that the author knows what he is talking about: Before he became a fiction writer, he worked as an investigative reporter with a local newspaper North of Tokyo. The plot of the book is detailed and by detailed I do mean that it is more a factual graph of the disaster and the environment than a fictional thriller; which at times I loved cause I was just soaking in the information, but there were times I wanted more than just facts for my taste – I wanted the heart pounding sensation of being in the midst of a high speed chase; except in a book! How pretty do you sound? You can’t expect to charm a royal ball or end up with Rex Harrison with sloppy speech habits.” Engaging and engrossing, frank and frankly troubling, Seventeen is a book not easily forgotten' - Karen Joy Fowler
To find the best pitch for your voice, sing do-re-mi-fa-so up the scale, starting on the lowest note you can comfortably sing. The fifth note above this is the place where your voice should sound best—pleasant and rich in tone. At this level, you can raise your voice without sounding harsh or shrill.” When you walk, point your foot directly ahead and come down on your heel, then shift weight to the ball of your foot.” This is a book that is more than worthy of your time, I hope he keeps writing in this vein as I for one would read anything else he decided to publish. A Japanese crime phenomenon! Flowers in your hair can create a pretty effect, but beware of overdoing. Keep your touch light or you may remind people of Ophelia [ Ed. Note : From Hamlet. Obviously. Because suicide is funny...ha...ha].” If hot pink on you makes people want to say: 'Pink, where are you going with that girl?' use it for a scarf or shirt rather than a whole dress.”
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While a trim length of leg has universal masculine approval, many boys confess to intense embarrassment on being confronted with intimate apparel.” Yuuki paused at the landing. Was it true? Was there still plenty of time for Jun and him? Life is just a series of moments.'
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