Dreaming Pachinko

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Summary: Third time is a charm!!!
Review: Dreaming Pachinko is clearly Adamson's finest outing to date. Building on characters introduced in Suckerpunch and Popsicle, Pachinko features a dense, suspenseful mystery, intertwined with the usual colorful, feaky, oddball characters we are used to seeing in Adamson's Japan. Read the book in three days while on vacation. Great summer reading. Great in the fall, winter or spring too!!

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Summary: Pachinko You Say???
Review: The title did catch my eye, and this is the first chance I have had to read Isaac Adamson, but I can promise you it will not be the last. Adamson takes you down a very intriging and winding path of magazine reporter Billy Chaka beginning with a Japanese Teen Idol, a beautiful girl, her friend, and enemies going back 60 years. The novel is as ingriging as it is a entertaining. The look at Tokyo is wonderful, and will suprise, and educate you at every turn. This lightning fast adventure will keep you turning pages, and staying up much later than you planned.

Rating:
Summary: Pachinko You Say???
Review: The title did catch my eye, and this is the first chance I have had to read Isaac Adamson, but I can promise you it will not be the last. Adamson takes you down a very intriging and winding path of magazine reporter Billy Chaka beginning with a Japanese Teen Idol, a beautiful girl, her friend, and enemies going back 60 years. The novel is as ingriging as it is a entertaining. The look at Tokyo is wonderful, and will suprise, and educate you at every turn. This lightning fast adventure will keep you turning pages, and staying up much later than you planned.

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Summary: Not as good as the predecessors....
Review: This is considerably more gloomy, with images of fire-bombed Tokyo, suicide, and unhappy lives lived. I'm not squeemish about such topics, but I had hoped they would be underlined with the same humor and intelligence as his prior efforts, Tokyo Suckerpuch and Hokkaido Popsicle. Unfortunately, the story feels more forced, and the humor is lacking, though not entirely absent. If you liked the previous two, get this one as well, but hold out hope that the next Billy Chaka adventure returns to his prior excitement.