- miko || 巫女 -

This book was recommended to me by a colleague, who thought it was a hilarious book that was spot on about working in an office / bureaucracy.

He was wrong.

The warning signs were very clear when I read the synopsis: the author, a office worker who published a book, writes a novel about an office worker who wanted to publish a book. Narcissistic twaddle potential high. Even with that warning, I was unprepared for the first chapter to be the main character jerking off in a fertility clinic. Through the next couple hours (I read this while watching the Superbowl, so at least I was wasting my hours in as efficient a way as possible), I read a book filled with ridiculously over the top and lazy caricatures, incredibly bad pacing spaced with incredibly bad "novel within a novel", and constant talk of the main character's penis.

I am now afraid that my coworker actually thought this was similar to work. He has a terribly screwed up perception of what goes on around him in that case. Also, I really hope guys don't think like this author, because it was disgusting just reading it - I can't imagine living it.

Don't read this book.