'Stalking the Unicorn' made my day
One of the recent problems with me is that I borrow a book, start reading it and I give up after two or three chapters. But it seems that the dark passion is over and I can truly admit I enjoy the book I'm reading now.
To be honest, I chose exactly this one due to its cover picture - an unicorn on it. I wanted to settle down to some kind of slice of life novel but I don't wanna sink in some basic romance (as my mom usually do). But.
For a person like me, who reads only set books or teenage books of Ewa Nowak, it's extremely ridiculous to find a proper position. I think it was last year when I borrowed EN's piece of work for the last time. The thing which was actual in junior high school cannot suit me anymore. And hopelessly, during my all high school I think I haven't read any book for myself. So I was used to reading only because I had to.
Now the half of the-longest-holiday-in-my-life is over and I didn't succeeded in finishing anything. It's mostly because of the fact that half of my day is spent in front of PC. Wait. Back. Was. Because now I'm not willing to turn the PC on. I'm thinking: "What will I do?". Everything is so boring. Everything is so dull, nothing happens here, nothing happens there and nothing will happen. But for Kimi ni Todoke, I would be in a huge depression right now. My current depression is like... " I know it exists but I want the time to pass by and let me relax and live peacefully in my room ". So - now, when I don't want to turn my computer on I have to focus on some other stuff or else I will definitely freak out. The suitble book is desperately needed. And thanks God I have one.
It's titled "Stalking the Unicorn", written by Mike Resnick. Its structure is specific because it almost contains only the dialogues. At a first glance, the conversations with pretty nearly description were a little bit disincentive - for the lung run, who will not freak out then? Too much description and too many dialogues are both bad for my genereal impression. But, to my relief, it is written in so appealing way it doesn't bother me anymore.
The summary: "An incomer from our world, a private detective, fights with the deamon of evil". The primitive sentence which means nothing when you haven't come into the other Manhatan. For me now it means everything.
And the things which happens in the other Manhatan are so surreal and illogical that, to my surprise, after further reading I'm not surprised at all and I feel like it's the ordinary part of my day. I mean, I am somehow bewildered or amused when I read the following lines but I take it as a must without which the world would not exist.
Very funny. And very pleasurable.
So I focused on my impression and opinion, abandoning the story. Oke. The plot is quite simple.
There's New Year's Eve and Mallory, the private detecitve is drowning his sorrows. Then, the imaginative person appears - an elf called Murgensturm, who tells Mallory that without his help he will be dead when the sun'll rise. Mallory is sure the elf is an effect of his drunkenness so he's not willing to believe in these words. And he would not, however, two dangerous criminals are heading for his detective room so he'd go with Murgensturm rather than become killed. The elf takes him to the other Manhatan - the Manhatan you are able to see only by the corner of your eye, a constant illusion and a constant true, which disappears when you look at the world by the whole of your eye. He wants Mallory to find a unicorn of which he was responsible for and which has been kidnapped. Kidnapped by the most powerful deamon of the other Manhatan.
Here, the adventure begins - usual but outstanding, homely but sophisitcated.
And as I said before, it is written in such a good style I feel like I'm a part of this world; it's still abstract for me but familiar.
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For now I'm going to watch 3 episodes of Kimi ni Todoke and 3 of NHK. Good luck, then.