Member: Mr_Blithe

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About meAn underinformed and overhyped product of the American public school system, Mr. Blithe shuffles through the desolate wasteland that is modern existence with his hands thrust firmly in his pockets and his head cast down at his union-labor sneakers, harboring the vague notion that every other human being on the face of the earth is totally batshit fucking loco. Resembling nothing so much as a living, breathing Muppet sans those little rods in his wrists—and I guess with more articulation in his hands and maybe a slightly more expressive face also—he has opted to leave the country of his birth for a Life Experience involving the teaching of English in Japan, land of animated tentacle porn and space-age toilets. Mr. Blithe looks to the day when he will be able to make a living by writing about weird things and using way too many semicolons. He has been told—more than once!—that he has a voice like a cartoon character, which he can neither confirm nor deny.

Mr. Blithe's hobbies include avoiding eye contact, consumable media, and catching strep throat from mosh pits.

About my libraryYeah yeah, I know that everyone says "Oh yeah, everyone in Japan speaks English. They took it in high school!" Most of the people who spread this rumor, though, have never been anywhere except Tokyo, where many people do speak English well enough for even an ignorant foreigner like me to function without too much trouble, but the collective English ability of this country is very much overstated. Not that that's bad, necessarily--I mean, seriously, do you remember anything from the three years of Spanish or French you took when you were a teenager? I live in Japan's Iwate prefecture in a small-ish town where most of the adults who stuck around dropped out of high school to become farmers. So any books I can get my hands on that are printed in English are rare and to be treated with the utmost respect. I was recently sent a treasure trove of English books and am now working through them all while I am supposed to be working, and then trading them around with others who share my predicament. This is a catalog of the books I have been able to read while on my Japanese working holiday.

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Member sinceJan 13, 2009