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Hokkaido Popsicle |  | Author: Isaac Adamson
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 208206
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Perennial ed
Pages: 336
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0380812924
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780380812929
ASIN: 0380812924
Publication Date: April 1, 2002
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Product Description
After an altercation with the director of Wildman for Geisha! -- a movie based on ace reporter Billy Chaka's life -- Chaka finds himself in Hokkaido on mandatory vacation. Trouble starts when the elderly porter of the Hotel Kitty stumbles into Billy's room and dies. That same night, the lead singer of Japan's most popular rock band turns up dead in a sleazy love hotel in Tokyo.Billy Chaka goes to Tokyo to cover the story for Youth in Asia magazine and soon finds out there's more to the rocker's apparent drug overdose than meets the eye. A Beatles-obsessed record executive, a mute DJ, two giant kickboxing twins with an encyclopedic knowledge of pop music, a Swedish stripper working at the Purloined Kitten Club -- each play a part in the hard-boiled hilarity that ensues as Billy Chaka discovers that the rock star and the elderly hotel porter just might share a very strange link.
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 as great as the first June 29, 2009
Kris
I found this to be as humorous and entertaining as Tokyo Suckerpunch. The characters are explained in a little more depth and become more complex than in the first book, which leaves me feeling satisfied in the end instead of wondering what happened to so-and-so. The ending wraps up neatly and like another reviewer mentioned the title of the book pulls the whole thing together.
My favorite in the series! June 6, 2009
C. Zimmerman (USA)
This is my favorite book in the series. I love Japanese rock, and the fact that this is about a Japanese visual kei musician is awesome. It's very interesting how the plot twists and turns. It's very captivating & I read it through in one sitting. This, for me, is a book I want to read over and over again. It's that good!
Tokyo craziness through the eyes of a gaijin August 14, 2007
lazza (Fort Lauderdale, Florida)
'Hokkaido Popsicle' is a like one never ending inside joke on how a American expat in Japan views the ultra modern and totally wild popular culture of Tokyo. I was such an expat in Tokyo several years ago and the author's observations are extremely keen, and are expressed with tongue-in-cheek humor. He also provides loads of humorous tidbits that only someone who has lived in Japan would appreciate, ... it's like on big inside joke.
Now as for the story, it works ... mostly. We have our young American journalist in Japan investigating the murder of a Japanese pop icon. He runs into all sorts of improbably situations and totally wacked-out characters. The story is completely unbelievable. Fortunately the author's deftness at writing readable prose and embellishing some of the more interesting characters make up for all the overly contrived bits.
Bottom line: more of a back door satire on modern Japanese culture than a memorable mystery novel. Recommended.
 bleh January 14, 2007
J. More
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
after barely getting thru tokyo sucker punch, i was leery of even picking up another one, but, since I'd already bought them on the cheap... yea I didn't get thru the first chapter. Again, if I was about 13 I probably would have enjoyed this better but as an adult... bleh.
Super Cool Noir In Japan September 3, 2005
Mr. Nowhere (Las Vegas, NV)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This series by Isaac Adamson is brilliant -- hip, fast-paced, hilarious.
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