Murakami, Ryu


**       An Almost Transparent Blue   Amazon
Fiction Novella

I think this book is too well done for me. Vivid and occasionally grusome, it's a first-person account of some fairly intense days for a small mixed-sex squad of student buddies in Tokyo. They are into hard drugs and group sex and you get the idea that the only thing repulsive to them is the idea of not experiencing everything possible.

Well paced and delivered, it is possibly a confession but never an apology. I actually wish I hadn't stumbled onto this one - it was pretty disturbing....