REVIEW: Junichiro Tanizaki – The Key (novel) – No Spoilers!

This review does not contain any spoilers.

It took me a few hours to read this short novel. I hated it. Not only the story, but the whole book, its style and technique. I didn’t like how it is written, I didn’t like the mixture between the 2 journals. I think it is poorly written. There are no metaphors, no poetics, no style. The characters are very poorly developed. The writer focuses too much on stereotypes.

Also, as the story flows, it becomes more and more sick and psychotic, but this doesn’t make it more interesting. I don’t recommend this book and I honestly don’t understand how it came to be published. It is a disaster. It looks as if it was written by a 10 y.o. kid.

I also don’t think that the writer really understands female orgasm.

I am sick and tired of thousands of books written by male authors about the female sexuality where they pretend to be “mind opening” and “daring” and “against taboos” but they are just as clueless as a dead stone rock in the middle of the desert. Also, they usually end up by offering fantastic multiple orgasm to these women, satisfying in fact only their own clueless ego which was, anyway, never able to please a woman.