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Format: Audiobook Rating: 0/5 on principle Thoughts: This book was really bizarre and felt quite pretentious and follows a very Japanese character arc and fiction style which I've grown quite tired of. It was already going to have a fairly low rating but I found out after finishing it that it was written with AI. While I knew that the characters here spoke of, and used their version of ChatGPT often and freely in the book, I didn't think that it was actually used to write it. Would not recommend in the slightest. Maybe this book was really not meant to be listened to, which is valid, HOWEVER, there were no chapters that were audibly discernible and the characters both lacked so much personality that it grew increasingly hard to follow. I don't wish to use this term lightly but it was borderline schizophrenic. This just really fell into the Japanese literary rabbit-hole of vague surrealism and nihilism that could only drive a reader to anger. WHY does every Japanese author write like this? WHY CAN MY PEOPLE NOT DO BETTER? I have had to swear off any Japanese literature in my home for years and this was my first venture back and I feel burned.