Uzumaki
Kurôzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It manifests itself in everything from seashells and whirlpools in water to the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi's father and the voice from the cochlea in our inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurôzu-cho are pulled ever deeper into a whirlpool from which there is no return!
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What Hacker News says
- Nomi Prins, All the Presidents Bankers, and also Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World.
Those two books illustrate the financialization of the US and global economy over time, and although dense, are well worth the effort. She has a new book out as of Oct, "Permanent Distortion: How Financial Markets Abandoned the Real Economy Forever."
Peter Anderas, Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America
A very fun historical read, covering everything from textile machinery smuggling from Britain to the American colonies, to rum and whiskey smuggling into Indian Country in the 19th century, to opium smuggling to China, to Prohibition and the modern Drug War, cotton smuggling by the South to Europe to finance the South's Civil War army, and the smuggling of people from slaves to immigrants. Very eye-opening, a lot of America's 'wealthy families' got their first pool of capital in this manner.
Also:
Junji Ito, Uzumaki and No Longer Human
William Gibson, The Peripheral and Agency
- Cannot see spirals without thinking about Uzumaki. And by considering all his work, saying Junji Ito is a master of horror isn't an overstatement.
- Comments on HN are expected to have a bit more substance. Most people will have no idea what you’re on about. An alternative:
> This reminded me of Junji Ito’s Uzumaki, a horror manga where a town is cursed by spirals. It can get gruesome. A short anime adaptation is about to come out.
