I found Haiku Guy to be interesting but somewhat random. The book reminded me of stream of continues rambling on about whatever came to the authors mind. I also had some doubts about whether the author in the book was really the author that wrote the book. Did he really go to Japan? Did his writing group really exist? Or were all those people simply more characters that he created for his story?
The haiku itself was good, though I'm not much of a haiku reader so I don't really know how good, and I'm sure most of the hidden meanings went straight over my head. If asked what the book was about, or even what it's genre was, I would probably respond with a blank stare and shrugged shoulders.
I was extremely disappointed with the ending, though I suppose it went with the somewhat careless feel of the rest of the book. It also confused me though, on why his ex-girlfriend would have sex with him, then, when he called, gush about her boyfriend. It seems pointless and wishy-washy to me.
My mother also read this book over break and it set her on a week of haiku writing. I was somewhat disappointing to find that her haiku were very good, better than mine. We were in Honduras at the time and most of the short poems featured sand, palms and beaches. We also had a long revision conference about a haiku we composed together that went
Waived paradise
yacht parking lot
Joni Mitchell
Not great but we liked it.
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