Books like Welcome to the N.H.K.

I really liked how this book led me on a journey through the main character Satou's despair, and his absolute wreck of a life inspired me to change my own. It's like... more subversive than Chuck Palahniuk, but less offensive than Mein Kampf, if you get what I mean. This book is pretty heavy stuff to deal with if you're ALREADY depressed, but it may help you realise there are good and VERY BAD ways to deal with one's melancholy and bleak circumstances.I have a more philosophical treatment of the ending here:http://aspergers.dasaku.net/?p=1249This book is #2 on my list of "Books not to let your parents know you own", the #1 spot being taken up by the works of Anais Nin.Five stars well deserved, but I would prefer to evaluate the merit of a book without an established merit system. Emotions can't be put on a scale.