author's imagination is good but the result made me want to open the window.

clarification: the beginning of these stories are good. the translations in some of them are marvelous. my eyes kept glued on the screen, page after page. however, mostly from the chapters around 50/70, things start to get sticky, like some specific 'stain' that doesn't come off of the 'bowl' even after some 'heavy downpour'.