If you like this sort of thing, you'll enjoy the movie. Even if you have vague, faint sympathy for this sort of thing, lost in translation is worth your while. If you enjoy clear channel radio stations and Tom Clancy novels... well... um, you can always rent The Fast and the Furious 2 again, I guess.

Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansen feel lonesome. Their careers, lovers, and even immediate surroundings feel foreign to them. That this is set in Tokyo really just underscores the alienation they feel toward their lives in general. This is made even better by not using Japanese subtitles, when it's spoken so much throughout the movie. Also, discounting Bill and Scarlett's chars, every single American in the movie are deplorable phonies, and they stick out even moreso in the sea of Japanese.

Sofia has documented alienation in its purest form, then swept it away with sweet love. That's really the point of the movie, and if you've never experienced anything like that, you'll likely think Lost is pointless. Oh well.

for someone who claims to be highly intelligent, savage's writing makes him sound like a drunken, rambling lout.

on his radio show he once claimed to have read an 800-page book in one night. you'd think he had at least picked up some style points from the wealth of books he ostensibly has read.

"are you following this?" "listen to me" et cetera... this reads like a verbatim transcript of his radio monologue. whether this is intentional or not is difficult to judge.

there's no way anyone could write like this on purpose, unless they were mentally handicapped or on some sort of drug. ...that, OR it's an incredible insult to his audience's intelligence (which he's betting they won't pick up on).

why did he write the book this way? does he think his writing is actually good? is he mocking his readers?

so many questions...

still, the book is entertaining in the same way gangsta rap is... i recommend stealing the savage nation