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There's a South Korean adaptation from 2012 called Helpless It'd be fun to track it down and watch it, it got a decent amount of nominations and awards according to that wiki. There's also 2 TV adaptations, the most recent one from 2011.

Hey all! Me on D2:

Can't relate to those criticisms at all, I felt like all of those are just ways in which the book was being coherent with its themes. Also: Overall I think this is my favorite book from the club so far, and I would say it's my favorite book this year except I also read A Closed and Common...

Enjoy! It indeed is really well written. And it should be a short read if you want to be done before the month is over, but I really appreciated having taking it slow so I could really savour it :D

Finished part 6, easily my favorite part of the book so far. Hoping it continues like this until the end but I suspect

Part 6 has been a rollercoaster, some of my favorite content in the book for sure.

You mean Bianca right? Or did you read it in another language where they made a weird choice with names? :P

Right now I'm starting part 6.

Reposting some thoughts I have posted on the Discord server:

Right? You should let me know if The Memory Police has a similar style to its ending, maybe there's a strong japanese literary tradition of making books 50 pages shorter than they should be. Personally, I have mixed opinions of the book. I thought it was very "plain", like what Feps described...

Welcome to MafiEra's book club discussion for November. This month, we read: All She Was Worth by Miyuki Miyabe Let discussion begin! (I did read it, will participate as soon as I'm able to!)

I don't think I interpreted Big Jim's portrayal as being so negative as most people here. I may be forgetting things, but the only outright asshole thing I remember him doing was calling environmentalists shitty or something like that. The rest read as stuff I'd roll my eyes at in a "eh, we lead...

I agree with your thoughts on the early humor. One of the things I dislike about stories that make tons of pop culture references is how they use them as crutches when they can't come up with an identity of their own (looking at you Ready Player One), and that definitely was worrying me...

Yeah there are some really neat descriptions not only in hostile encounters but in the general descriptions of ST's maneuvering when in flight.

I really don't agree with the thing about ST's growth; he's very empathetic from the beginning, goes from caring a whole lot for his family (his relationship with Dennis I thought came across as very brotherly, from squabbling while living at home to becoming true friends when leaving it), and...

I did notice that, and I'm totally on board :D Also, how come ST was so into pop culture yet didn't recognize an obvious zombie apocalypse scenario? :P

Another thing I don't think particularly landed for me was the "technological" aspect of whatever it was that finished humanity off. It came across as a bit preachy, it wasn't ever satisfactorily explained why humans reacted to technology like that or why they were looking for screens other than...