Daniel Robert Epstein: I Love Lord Buddha author Hillary Raphael

One thing I didn't get out of this was ... what is this book really about? I clicked through the links and found this:
http://www.neogeisha.org/neo.htm

Is this a work of fiction or...? Did thousands of people really commit a mass suicide? That is insane.

the three girls look like kasumi, ayame and lei-fang from Dead or Alive.

i dont give flip what its about. i am defintely going to read it.

wow. this book sounds fucking cool.

I was kinda amazed to see this interview! I read the book about a year ago and thoroughly enjoyed it, but it's a tough read to find unless you order it online or live near Shakespeare and Co. books in the East Village! Anyway, it was a fun book, and I'm glad to see it getting press, even if the interview doesn't have much to say... Sorry Dre!

Let me rephrase that: Show me that author . . .

[Edited on Apr 13, 2005 by Izabel]

They look so much alike I'm starting to wonder if they are them. The purple-haired girl has Ayame's bow in her hair, and the one in the middle has Lei-Fang's pigtails.

Boy, do I play too many video games.

its them alright. im positive thats taken from the cover of one of those hentai porn comics. i know ive seen that picture before

this sounds interesting, thanks.

My buddy's old girlfriend was also Japanese fluent, a model, and she based herself in Japan for 3 or 4 months a year and worked in one of the elite hostess bars like the one mentioned here between modelling assignments. She made INSANE money - as much as her day rate as a model, which was around $5000 back then - just for sitting around in an evening dress and TALKING to these "captain of Industry" types. Hell, these guys used to invite my buddy out to dinner or on their yachts WITH his girlfriend, who they were paying - extremely well - just to HANG OUT with them and look pretty! One guy, Yoshi, who was some hotshot young VP at JVC, even bought my bud a Patek Phillipe watch to accompany the one he gave the girlfriend - a watch that was worth about $28,000 when he hit hard times and had to sell it a few years later! Insane, but true.

I really don't understand the Japanese mind at all - at least not the rich, repressed, industrialist Japanese mind.

I really want to read this book.

And I think I want to sniff the authors underpants, too.

People really are fucking idiots...

picked this up after reading about it here, and just finished it. i thought it was an interesting, exciting, read. structured such that it cracked narrative flow open and floated.

i loved the concepts of IKI and Limit Experiences...

thanks, DRE and SG - my mind is better for your contributions

I think I'm going to read this myself now.

I really need to read this book.

she has a new one out called Backpacker... sounds like a sort of next-gen Alex Garland/Geoff Dyer thing. i'm intrigued, i really loved the last book.

you can read an excerpt of the new one here.