Audition
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Audition (1997)

Ryu Murakami

Others: Negative
ISBN:
9781408800720
Length:
208 pages

Genres: thriller

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Reviews1

Not a fan

the writing in this book was not bad whatsoever it was fine it was just the plot was incredibly lackluster it took forever for this book to get going and then once it did the climax for me just wasn't even that satisfying