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Paprika
Paprika | Yasutaka Tsutsui
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Widely acknowledged as Yasutaka Tsutsui's masterpiece, Paprika unites his surreal, quirky imagination with a mind-bending narrative about a psychiatric institute that has developed the technology to invade people's dreams. When prototype models of a dream-invading device go missing at the Institute for Psychiatric Research, it transpires that someone is using them to drive people insane. Threatened both personally and professionally, brilliant psychotherapist Atsuko Chiba has to journey into the world of fantasy to fight her mysterious opponents. As she delves ever deeper into the imagination, the borderline between dream and reality becomes increasingly blurred, and nightmares begin to leak into the everyday realm. The scene is set for a final showdown between the dream detective and her enemies, with the subconscious as their battleground, and the future of the waking world at stake.
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Catsandbooks
Paprika | Yasutaka Tsutsui
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#FoodandLit July Hungary ??

I made chicken paprikash with dumplings and it was very good! Super comforting and would be perfect in the fall or winter and not when it's 100° but hey still a tasty meal

Amiable Looks yummy! 8mo
Bookwormjillk My food from Hungry did not match the weather either! 8mo
Texreader That looks and sounds amazing…this fall!! 8mo
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jessjess
Paprika | Yasutaka Tsutsui
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Pickpick

You ever read a book that starts weird, gets weirder and just keeps leaning into it until every other page is left with you saying quietly to yourself "what the f"?

Paprika is that book for me. It starts with the theft of a device that enables a user to enter someone else's dreams and actively change them, and it ends with a dizzying blend of reality and dream, of "real" and "not real". Great sci-fi thriller.

jessjess So I had to go back and re-read some of this because sometimes the writing was badly translated. And it's clunky and a scene which at first glance seemed okay turned out to be very problematic. After confirming that I was re-reading it rightly I've changed my review, I feel like although the premise is good the writer could have skipped out some scenes, phrases, and homophobia. 2y
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jessjess
Paprika | Yasutaka Tsutsui
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I'm about a quarter of the way into this book, which was billed as a sci-fi dream detective story that also has an anime I can watch later. Right now it's a little bit dragging on so I switched out for one of my other books (I have about 4-5 going at the same time usually)

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Ange44
Paprika | Yasutaka Tsutsui
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Round 35 of the #tenatatime #tbr project. Too bad I seem to keep adding more books than I‘m reading! Lol.

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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
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Mehso-so

Prim perfect psychologist Atsuko Chiba lives a double life as the vibrant “dream detective” Paprika who can diagnose and cure mental illness by entering the dreams of her patients. When the technology that allows this falls into the wrong hands (a militant Catholic gay sex cult) nightmares begin to invade the waking world.

One of the rare instances where the movie is much much better. Skip the book. Watch Satoshi Kon‘s brilliant film.

Zelma Omg, that movie gutted me in the best way ever. ❤️❤️❤️ 6y
CSeydel A militant Catholic gay sex cult? 😲 6y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
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“...then a gigantic Buddha tens of meters tall appeared in the garden in front of the Institute. With the merciful compassion of the enlightened one, it started to trample down the media personnel who came tumbling out of the Institute buildings.”

Leftcoastzen Love that Buddha! 6y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
Paprika | Yasutaka Tsutsui
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Yesterday I complained that this book was boring. Turns out that, as you near the end, it becomes decidedly less so.

#GRRRROARRRRRGGGGHHHH

TobeyTheScavengerMonk @Reggie The crazy finally kicked in! 6y
Leftcoastzen 😂😮 6y
againsthesky19 That hashtag is everything😂 6y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
Paprika | Yasutaka Tsutsui
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I‘ve watched the movie based on this book (a film best described as watching Inception on one screen and Speed Racer on another simultaneously while eating a handful of Pixy Stix laced with acid) 3 or 4 times so I had certain expectations going in.

I did not expect it to be boring though. Surprise! So much office politics!

I also did not expect the villains to be part of a militant Catholic gay sex cult.

TobeyTheScavengerMonk I also did not expect for a book with a militant Catholic gay sex cult to be so boring, but here we are. 6y
Centique That movie description is awesome! 😂😂😂 People should pay you to write blurbs like that 😋 6y
Lindy Ha ha ha! 6y
Reggie Is this the one where their nightmares become reality? 6y
TobeyTheScavengerMonk @Reggie Yes! At least in the movie. No such craziness happening in the book yet. 6y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
Paprika | Yasutaka Tsutsui
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Hey, I‘m #starting this on #BookToMovie day! Neat!

40 pages in and the book is a bit dry, nowhere near the unhinged kaleidoscope of crazy that is Satoshi Kon‘s brilliant movie.

#ReadingResolutions

pilardib I love Paprika! 6y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
Paprika | Yasutaka Tsutsui
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If Paprika is 1/3 as crazy as Satoshi Kon's movie then it is going to be INSANE. #candycolouredcovers #feistyfeb Tossed in my Making of The Grand Budapest Hotel because of Mendl's candy in the movie.

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geekerydo
Paprika | Yasutaka Tsutsui
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#RiotGrams day 1! Huzzah for @bookriot :) here's my #shelfie

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Lylah
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Bailedbailed

Only made it 50 pages into this one. Cool concept, maybe, bad prose (translation error?), weird sexism and definite biased male perspective. I looked up reviews and most of them agree, plus there's a really gross triggering scene later on that's like rape fantasy. No thanks.

amazingmavis I had the exact same thoughts! Such an interesting premise that I bought it, but I didn't make it very far. It just never drew me in. 8y
Lylah @amazingmavis genuinely disappointed I spent the money on it but that's what I get for reading the blurb on the back and liking the cover without looking up any extra information... 8y
amazingmavis Haha, yes. Same here. 8y
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Lylah
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Please tell me this was deeply lost in translation 🙈

TobeyTheScavengerMonk Ha yeah. Did not get what he was going for there. 6y
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shelly
Paprika | Yasutaka Tsutsui
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Connie, saw this at The Strand this weekend, said its for the Murakami lover, so thought of you. BTW, if you can read the small type -- his previous book has a interesting title, "Salmonella Men on Planet Porno". :)

rwrkb What a great cover! 8y
Connie I saw Paprika the animated film, maybe it's based on this story!! Awesome cover too 😎 8y
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