The Memory Police [book, audiobook]

 The Memory Police [book, audiobook]

THIS BOOK IS ROUGH TO READ. IT'S A BOOK ABOUT FANTASTICAL POLICE RAIDS AND FANTASTICAL SCI-FI ANNE FRANK STUFF,  BUT IT'S ALSO JUST AN ABSTRACT BOOK ABOUT MEMORY AND IDENTITY AND THINGS LIKE THAT. BUT IT FEELS HARD TO READ IN THE CURRENT DAY BECAUSE LIKE, THE POLICE RAIDS STUFF FEELS MORE RELEVANT WHEN THEY ARE LIKE, SECRET AGENTS ATTACKING KOBE NINJA HOUSE DOWN THE ROAD IRL. SO IT'S LIKE "I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THESE TYPEWRITERS AND PHILOSOPHY,  GO BACK TO THE LITERAL PLOT". IN AN UNCOMFORTABLE WAY. LIKE YOU ARE CLEARLY SUPPOSED TO CARE MORE ABOUT THE METAPHORICAL THEMES BUT LIKE, THE LITERAL PLOT IS VERY GRIPPING AND RELEVANT AND IT MAKES NOW NOT THE TIME TO READ THIS I GUESS?

PS. THE MECHANISM OF FORGETTING WAS VERY CLEARLY MEANT TO BE ABSTRACT AND ILL DEFINED. THE BOOK WAS VERY DISINTERESTED IN BEING ANY SORT OF HARD SCI-FI THAT HAD D&D RULES FOR HOW THE MAGIC WORKED. BUT THERE WAS A BUNCH OF THINGS LIKE FRUIT AND FLOWERS BEING ERASED THEN THERE BEING SPECIFIC MENTIONS OF FRUITS AND FLOWERS AND I LEGITIMATELY CAN'T TELL IF THAT WAS BOOK ERROR, AN INDICATION THE MEMORY ERASING WAS NOT NEARLY AS ALL POWERFUL AS PORTRAYED OR A THING WHERE THE BOOK WAS TRANSLATED AND DID NOT USED SPECIFIC WORDS CONSISTENTLY. LIKE FRUIT WAS GONE THEN THEY BUY STRAWBERRIES. MAYBE "STRAWBERRIES" NOT "FRUIT" IN JAPANESE?