{"id":44590,"date":"2018-10-31T11:12:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T15:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=44590"},"modified":"2018-10-18T19:48:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T23:48:44","slug":"patient-x-the-case-book-of-ryunosuke-akutagawa-by-david-peace-in-library-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/patient-x-the-case-book-of-ryunosuke-akutagawa-by-david-peace-in-library-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient X: The Case-Book of Ry\u016bnosuke Akutagawa by David Peace [in Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-44592\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/Patient-X-David-Peace-BookDragon-531x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/Patient-X-David-Peace-BookDragon-531x800.jpg 531w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/Patient-X-David-Peace-BookDragon.jpg 629w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/>In one of the most inexcusable examples of careless casting or lazy producing or both, David Peace (<em>Red or Dead<\/em>) gets utterly short-changed by Ric Jerrom&#8217;s exasperating performance, from grievous mispronunciations of the majority of the Japanese names and words \u2013 including even Peace&#8217;s protagonist Ry\u016bnosuke Akutagawa \u2013 to unnecessarily heightened, frenzied interpretations of too many passages.<\/p>\n<p>With dozens of audiobook credits, British actor Jerrom \u2013 who seems to be the voice of choice for Ruth Rendell and Patrick O&#8217;Brian \u2013 is no newbie, but his unfamiliarity with the Japanese language or literature is painfully obvious. That Peace&#8217;s final volume in his &#8220;Tokyo Trilogy&#8221; should be so mistreated is a shame.<\/p>\n<p>Moving from post-war Tokyo murders in <em>Tokyo Year Zero<\/em>, to a 12-part Rash\u014dmon-esque dissection of mass murder in 1948 Tokyo in <em>Occupied City<\/em>, Peace concludes his three-parter with the too-short, disquieting tragic life of Rash\u014dmon creator Akutagawa, presented as 13 tales told by &#8220;Patient X in one of our iron castles.&#8221; Equal parts biography, myth-making, homage, and fabulous storytelling, this work by Peace \u2013 who lived in Japan for 17 years \u2013 is a memorable multi-perspective montage of a literary legend as a troubled young man.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict<\/strong>: By all means, choose the page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookverdict.com\/details.xqy?uri=Product2018-10-15-7472342.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Audio,&#8221; <em>Library Journal<\/em>, October 15, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the most inexcusable examples of careless casting or lazy producing or both, David Peace (Red or Dead) gets utterly short-changed by Ric Jerrom&#8217;s exasperating performance, from grievous mispronunciations of the majority of the Japanese names and words \u2013 including even Peace&#8217;s protagonist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,81,147,114,6,76,6535],"tags":[89,8123,75,10,189,11,24,242,7292,39,8124,8122],"class_list":["post-44590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-audio","category-biography","category-british","category-fiction","category-japanese","category-repost","tag-anthology-collection","tag-david-peace","tag-death","tag-family","tag-father-son-relationship","tag-friendship","tag-historical","tag-horror-ghost-story","tag-mental-illness","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-patient-x","tag-ryunosuke-akutagawa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - 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