Once and Forever

DNF. I suspect this is fully on me, however I just could not get into these tales. Yes they are lyrical, but I constantly felt like I was missing something. Most of the tales just seem to end without any conclusion; almost like the author gave up (or assumed the reader could complete the rest of the story themselves). My guess is that there is some context that I am missing; a bit like reading Animal Farm without knowing anything about communism.

In any event, once I got to the racist depiction of a Chinese character I gave up. If I'm going to be confused, I don't also want to have to put up with racism (I am guessing this is excused as being “of its time”).

I'll give this 3 stars on the assumption that I am missing something (as evidenced by all the 5 star reviews this is getting).