Vanaf de eerste pagina’s zat ik gelijk in dit verhaal. Zoals elk goed verhaal, is er een aanloop en verwacht dus niet meteen omver geblazen te worden door de ene actie na de andere. En toch, ik zag het allemaal voor mij, zelfs de personages die nog volop hun karakter en verleden moesten blootgeven, kregen toch al een gezicht. Alsof ik een boek lang een super goeie serie gebinged heb. Seventeen, then, is the straightforward account of what happened over the next two years, when Gibson (not his real name) was still very much a child. He’s writing under a pseudonym for various reasons – shame, protecting both the innocent and the guilty – and the narrative unfolds in the present tense, thus leaving it absent of the benefits of hindsight. In a surreal case of life imitating art, the book about a woman’s experiences of everyday sexism caused controversy, with many of Irene’s male fans cutting up and burning posters and photocards of the idol in disgust at her “feminist leanings.” The book, which became the first million-selling Korean novel since Shin Kyung-sook’s Please Look After Mom in 2009, follows an average young woman in Korea who struggles with sexist experiences and the expectation and reality of quitting her job to become a stay-at-home wife and mother. She later struggles with mental illness, and we see her “psychic deterioration in the face of rigid misogyny.”

Author Hideo Yokoyama has been described as a crime author who says that the crime is the least interesting part of his books. As a reader, you need to bear this in mind; as this is very much a novel described as a ‘thriller,’ which is much more interested in the aftermath of events, and – in particular – the way events are covered by the press, than in the air crash, which is central to the plot. Musical Seventeen, adapted by Sally Benson, produced in New York City in 1951, with Kenneth Nelson and Ann Crowley. I'm gonna be a bit bias here cause this is one of my favorite genre and it was written in a way that every bits worth reading to me. Be it in a hectic messy scene or during a freaking heated argument between Yuuki and Todoroki at the barbecue place, it was so vivid, so real so descriptive yet very intriguing. How Yuuki reminiscing every inch of last seventeen years incident, so gripping and tense. I love the narratives that it always gave me that emotional, nervous and exciting feelings at the same time. It was long but not draggy, it seems like every chapter giving me absolute enjoyment. If a girl slumps her shoulders, it’s a safe bet she hopes nobody will notice anything about her. Probably nobody will.” Hideo Yokoyama ( 横山 秀夫) worked as an investigative reporter with a regional newspaper north of Tokyo for 12 years before striking out on his own as a fiction writer. He made his literary debut in 1998 when his collection of police stories Kage no kisetsu (Season of Shadows) won the Matsumoto Seicho Prize; the volume was also short-listed for the Naoki Prize. In 2000 his story Doki (Motive) was awarded the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Short Stories. His 2002 novel Han'ochi (Half Solved) earned a Konomys No. 1 and gained him a place among Japan's best-selling authors. He repeated his Konomys No. 1 ranking in 2013 with 64 Rokuyon (64), his first novel in seven years. Other prominent works include his 2003 Kuraimazu hai (Climber's High), centering on the crash of JAL Flight 123 that he covered as a reporter in 1985; the World War II novel Deguchi no nai umi (Seas with No Exit, 2004); the police novel Shindo zero (Seismic Intensity Zero, 2005); and the story collection Rinjo (Initial Investigation, 2004).While a trim length of leg has universal masculine approval, many boys confess to intense embarrassment on being confronted with intimate apparel.” Even then, I would recommend this book for readers who love getting facts about actual cases and a writing style that is more journalistic than fictional! The middle-class Baxter family enjoys a comfortable and placid life until the summer when their neighbors, the Parcher family, play host to an out-of-town visitor, Lola Pratt. An aspiring actress, Lola is a "howling belle of eighteen" who talks baby-talk "even at breakfast" and holds the center of attention wherever she goes. She instantly captivates William with her beauty, her flirtatious manner, and her ever-present prop, a tiny white lap dog, Flopit. William is sure he has found true love at last. Like the other youths of his circle, he spends the summer pursuing Lola at picnics, dances and evening parties, inadvertently making himself obnoxious to his family and friends. They, in turn, constantly embarrass and humiliate him as they do not share his exalted opinion of his "babytalk lady".

To anyone who's worked in an office (particularly in media) there is a lot you'll recognize here. The push and pull of one team vs another. Layout has a grudge against Editorial, who likewise don't find Layout's work all that important compared with their own. It's like this over and over, with Yuuki butting heads with practically everyone at the paper, as they each care more about their own job or their own agenda than the big story that Yuuki has to care about more than anything else. It’s 1992. Like every other seventeen-year-old boy, Joe has one eye on his studies, the other on his social life – smoking, Britpop, girls. He’s looking ahead to a gap year full of travel and adventure before university when his teacher – attractive, mid-thirties – takes an interest in him. It seems like a fantasy come true. Keeps readers on the edge of their seats through a roller-coaster ride of high-octane action that builds to an explosive finale' SUNDAY EXPRESS The element in fashion which is hardest to define and analyze is good taste. You are most acutely aware of it when it is absent.” The way you stand and walk shows who you think you are. People who droop and just sort of drift around look like nonentities.”

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I enjoyed the snippets of Seventeen/Jone’s life that were peppered throughout the story. They ‘humanised’ him, adding context to the story and insight into his personality and I couldn’t help but root for him, even when I shouldn’t be! It is easy to judge journalists in these situations, and some of the characters we get to know certainly are real cynics, but Hideo Yokoyama shows that it is nearly impossible for them to get out of the double-bind: Newspapers need readers and companies which advertise, so they have to present attractive content - the media consumer is always present in this book, as a looming invisible power, as a caller and as a letter writer. It is obvious that the author knows what he is talking about: Before he became a fiction writer, he worked as an investigative reporter with a local newspaper North of Tokyo. I have always had quite the fascination with Japanese culture and yet I find it astounding that I have yet to read any book that is based in Japan or written by a Japanese author. So when the chance came up to read and review this “investigative thriller”; I jumped at the chance to get my hands on it! On the day that Yuuki was scheduled to meet his best friend, Anzai, and go on a short climbing holiday, a plane crashes into the mountains, killing over 500 people. As the senior reporter for a local provincial paper, Yuuki stays in the office and is put in charge of the paper's coverage of the crash. Anzai also doesn't make it to the meeting point. He collapses on a city street and is taken to the hospital where he lays in a coma.