眩暈 [Memai] by Sōji Shimada

眩暈 [Memai] Reviews

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  Mizuki

  Edited@14/11/2015: Re-reading Memai (translation: Dizziness) by Soji Shimada.
  
  I had read this book long ago and after this re-reading I still find the story of Memai spellbinding and the plot twists clever and the murderer's motivation well explained and convincing, it is among Mr. Shimada's finest novels.
  
  The author Soji Shimada, aka King Of Dismemberment in the realm of Japanese crime/detective novels, brings us yet another bewildering tale: the detective and his friend received a strange diary belonged to a disable young man, who lived alone in a seaside apartment provided by his movie star father, said father sent his disable son a beautiful female caretaker to look after him. Then one day, a masked robber broke into the apartment, the female caretaker and a visiting man were killed right before the young man's eyes, the young man ran out calling for help only to find outside of the apartment building, The End of the World had already arrived. Then in order to revive the deads, the young man cut the bodies in half and rearranged them to a half-male half-female Perfect Being, and then...the reviving ritual worked out and the Being opened his/her eyes?
  
  So did the disable young man go mad and dream these all up? Or something deeper had gone on? You will have to find out for yourself.
  
  Here're the few things I like about this book:
  
  (1) The author came up with the most impossible situations (e.g. people turn into monsters, The End Of the World, the existence of an nonexistent 4th Floor, the Perfect Being etc) and manged to explain most of them logically and intelligently.
  
  (2) I like how the murder mystery is solved and explained in the end.
  
  (3) The atmosphere is nightmarish.
  
  (4) The story is economically and neatly written, it's a fast read.
  
  Last but not least, the 'reviving spell' in this book is a direct copy of the one in a H P. Lovecraft's short story. lol
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  Le

  非常经典，也非常喜欢的岛田庄司模式，对于一段复杂无序的呓语往往能给出结构清晰的解答，御手洗君真有你的！
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  s

  20180409
  
  #眩暈 #御手洗潔シリーズ #島田荘司 さん #読了
  
  御手洗潔と石岡くんのコンビがいい。専門的な話になるところ(教授と御手洗の会話とか)は全く意味がわからず、え、、これは世間でいう「常識」なのだろうか、みんなこれわかってるんだろうか？と不安になって来る頃に石岡くんのふつうの人(より少しのほほんとしてると思うけど)っぷりが出てきて、ほっとする。何よりその描写が好き。
  p122
  私には、まるきり一行も理解できなかったから、紅茶を淹れ直すために立った。
  p166
  長々とした、難解な教授の話がいっ時やんだ。私は、聞いていて意味が十分の一も解らなかった。
  石岡くんを笑えない立場だけどクスッとしてしまう。
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  αcolon

  谜题、故事展开、氛围都非常喜欢的一本，从游戏之心开始的故事，线索给得大方，于是谜题的提出和解答从头到尾都贯穿的很好，又玄又被他们说服了，非常有趣。你们的《占星术》已经成了别人的“儿童读物”，真是感慨。给这本打星的时候发现自己才给了《斜屋》4星？现在的我明明觉得对斜屋挺有好感来着，那就把五星留给更能震撼我的书，这本也打平四星好了。