Reddit reviews Out: A Thriller

I just... I can't... what?

> If Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series had been written by a woman, she’d have been burned at the stake as a man-hating witch. And so it goes.

Well that triggered me. Has this woman not read female written crime fiction? It's frickin wall to wall rape and brutality against women. Often told in bizarrely indulgent and damn near fetishistic detail. I read Out by Natsuo Kirino recently where the climax featured a naked middle aged woman strapped to metal railings freezing to death and her longing to be raped again purely to "Feel the warmth of his iron hard rod inside her.". The murderer/raperer in question earlier spends a full chapter reminiscing about the woman who he raped in her knife wound as she bled to death and how totally rad it was.

That got fucking rave reviews and the author is one of the best selling crime authors in Japan.

Out by Natsuo Kirino.

Out , Grotesque and Real world, all by female Japanese novelist Natsuo Kirino. They all have female main characters. They are very dark, and they show an interesting side of the Japanese lifestyle/sense of annihilation.

Rivlary, by Nagai Kafu. A beautifully written and mean geisha tale from the point of view of the geisha.

Murakami has already been mentioned, but unless you pick up his short stories (where he is at his best, IMHO), almost all of his novels are written by the point of view of a male character. The exception is 1q84, his latest, and by far weakest, novel.

Out by kirino is a great book


http://www.amazon.com/Out-Novel-Natsuo-Kirino/dp/1400078377/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373838346&sr=1-1&keywords=out+kirino

Out: A Novel by Natsuo Kirino

I read this Japanese book a while back: http://www.amazon.com/Out-A-Novel-Natsuo-Kirino/dp/1400078377