好き好き大好き超愛してる。

by Otaro Maijo

愛は祈りだ。僕は祈る。僕の好きな人たちに皆そろって幸せになってほしい。それぞれの願いを叶えてほしい。温かい場所で、あるいは涼しい場所で、とにかく心地よい場所で、それぞれの好きな人たちに囲まれて楽しく暮らしてほしい。最大の幸福が空から皆に降り注ぐといい。「恋愛」と「小説」をめぐる恋愛小説。２００９大学読書人大賞受賞。（講談社文庫）

Genres: Japanese Literature

121 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 7, 2004

About the author

Otaro Maijo ( 舞城王太郎) is a Japanese Novelist.

Reviews

[Genma496 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Without love it cannot be seen. Very lovely story. It's my favorite of Maijo's non-mystery stuff thus far.

I always feel conflicted with Maijo's novels because the overt focus on the interiority of their narrators are the best thing about it, and it allows him to convey some really interesting feelings, but at the same time it makes it so that none of the other characters feel like real people, but only objects that serve the narrator (and I guess you could point out that there's something a little iffy about making the female love interest simply be an object to serve the male narrator). And yet it's that same thing that made this book work so well, and I don't know that expanding on the other characters would actually improve it or only take away from the point it's trying to serve. So in conclusion, I have no idea how to critique a Maijo experience, but he always brings something that I've never seen or felt before anywhere else with his works, and for that I'll always be thankful.

I’m okay with being stupid. I’m okay with piling up mistakes.
That’s what loving too much is about. And that’s about the right intensity for one’s love to be.

[pareidolia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love is a prayer, and so are stories.

Love, Love, Love You, I Love You! , with stress on the "I": the narrators in Maijo's short stories are selfish lovers, and aware of it. Their love interests - most of them dead or dying - barely have personality, barely exist as characters, but it's the narrators who constantly call attention to this.

Are these stories good? Of course they are. The Kakio ones were my favorites, for one because they're the most meta, the most concerned with writing and stories, and because I like the way they deal with grief, including its ugly sites. Kakio II almost made me cry on public transport, and then Kakio III almost made me cry at home. So thanks for that, I guess.

[Zakdj · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Love is a prayer, and so are stories”

This might be my favourite thing Otaro Maijo has written, several times it almost sent me to tears, welled emotions into me that I couldn’t fight the feeling of, every second forced me to look no matter what. This is a beautiful piece of work I urge everyone to read.

This is a masterpiece, I love love love Love Love Love, I Love You.

[Shinya]

Read History:\n- 2009/11/04\n- 2012/06/27\n
ギャボーンだとかふざけたような雰囲気もあるけれど、透き通った愛情を書いている。文字の量が主人公の感情絶対値を表しているようになっていて、苦悩とか喜びだとか見えるようだった。気に入ったのは柿生２の百通手紙だ。普通はあんな事をされたら束縛のような感じになる。確かにここのシーンだけで終わっていたら私もそう感じただろう、が「〜、それがあるといい」となる、つまり悲しみ、なおかつ柿生を忘れないこと、少なくとも今は思い出を大事にすることにした。主人公は束縛されずに百通の思いに期待して生きる。そこに愛があるように思えた。

[Shinya]

ドリルホールインマイブレインのために読んだ。文庫で好き好きは読了済み。ドリルの印象は「夢」と「フリクリ」だった。風邪を引いたときに見るような悪夢のような非現実感、そして狂った世界。半端でない気持ち悪さだった

[Kakuzō Akutagawa · Rating 5 out of 5]

When does too much love become too much?
And when does that love devolve into egoism?
How much is too much?
How can we live after love?
And what happens when that love we talk about is towards none other than life itself?

With those feelings in mind, I shall continue looking for answers until the end of my days.

Thank you Maijo, I needed this.


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[Kei · Rating 3 out of 5]

愛というタイトルがついて、死のことを書く。ということが、もうちょっと疲れた。
メルヘンチックな所が多くて、たまに「なじゃこりゃ」と思うときも。体の中の虫や夢の中のおじさんを殴り殺しや小説の中の小説の訳の分からない内容など…　額に皺を寄せながら読んで、「気持ちいい」とは思わない小説です。
だが、考えとしてはいいこともたまには出てくるのが確かだ。前書きや人を思うところをだけを残しておいたら、いい本です。