2015 Reading Challenge [Closed] discussion

Piercing is about Kawashima Masayuki who wakes in the middle of the night, and finds himself looking into the crib of his newborn daughter, suddenly struck with the overwhelming urge to pierce the daughters skin with an ice pick. Deciding that he cannot harm his daughter, Kawashima sets up a plan to hire a prostitute and pierce her with an ice pick and cut her Achilles tendon. What he finds is a woman who is emotionally hurting and finds pleasure in pain.

The above summary is not what I thought I was getting in to when I selected this book, and for many reason I was left disappointed with it. The idea of him wanting to stab his newborn with an ice pick is in and of itself terrifying, but the way Murakami resolved Kawashima's urges was a trip.

The best way I can describe this book is to have you picture that Jane Austen wrote fan-fiction that combined Fifty Shades of Grey and Darkly Dreaming Dexter, but didn't know how to bring it to an end. That is what reading Piercing was like.

The most terrifying thing about reading this book was how long it took me to get through the 190 pages that contained the story. in short, I do not recommend this book to anyone.

I was very disappointed with this book also. Not even remotely scary or terrifying. Luckily it was only a short read. I felt let down.

Nicole, spot on! There was so much promise to this, and there was some build up, but nothing happened. It was pretty awful.