Haiku Guy

Truthfully, Haiku Guy was pretty good. It was a lot like a book I read previously this year, Portrait Of An Artist, As An Old Man by Joseph Heller. In both books, the main character is striving to become great writers. Except in the case of Haiku Guy, the writer cannot write well at the beginning, but he generally starts to be able to write haiku. In the latter book, the writer can already write. He mainly tries to go and create one final, brilliant book before he dies. I relatively enjoyed the characters in Haiku Guy. It was interesting how Master Cup-Of-Tea was never straight-forward with his lessons, but instead he hid them within haiku. As for Kuro, he was probably my least favorite character. He was always talking about death and despair, and how nothing that anyone did actually mattered. He was such a gloomy person, and I don't exactly like reading about gloomy characters like that in books. I didn't really care much for the way that the writer of the book made it so Buck-Teeth was in the current era, though. It just seemed rather pointless, and I think that could have been removed. The part with the friends of the author going into Buck-Teeth's era should remain, though. Throughout the book his friend's played a rather major role in Buck-Teeth's development, and to remove them would be to remove an important aspect of the book. But the way he kept on talking of how they were people there from future eras, and how they were not of Buck-Teeth's time seemed to ruin it somewhat. It just seemed rather pointless to talk about how Buck-Teeth could never get the girl because she's from the 21st century.

Overall, I would recommend this to a friend. It was rather interesting of a concept, with the main character being a person who wants to write. While at a couple of moments it may have been dull, it redeemed itself with the next section or two before falling into another dull area, for however brief it did. It was a good read and it kept me interested, except for those previously mentioned moments of dullness.