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Before the Coffee Gets Cold, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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rosegoes3's review

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emotional reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I didn’t DISLIKE it, necessarily, but it was so sad. It took me a while to understand that each chapter is about a different person’s journey in the chair and not four separate stories. 

It was sad. and kind of reflective? But I still feel like I missed the point of it because either way it wasn’t real? The last story is the saddest. 

One of those books where you don’t get the middle until you get to the end. 

The tone of it is very straightforward and to-the-point, which may be a translation thing, but made it hard for me to get attached to the book. 
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sarah984's review

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emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I thought this book was beautiful and really thought-provoking - if you could travel through time despite all the rules and constraints and never being able to change anything, would it be worth it? The stories are sad but not too maudlin, and while I would have preferred the outcomes to be a little less conservative I can see how the characters came to those conclusions and really liked how even though they hadn't changed the past, the change in perspective changed their future.

This novel is an adaptation of a play of the same name, which explains why it's so dialogue-driven and all takes place in a single room.
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