Terminal Boredom: Stories

I decided to pick up this novel after reading a brief preview of the collection on The Guardian. I knew going in that they would skew on the bleak side. I tend to like sci fi that plays heavy into the human aspect of such stories and these were quite a somber take on life. By the time I got to the third story, I could get a sense for Izumi Suzuki's view of people/life that she held as those particular feelings were interwoven into the characters of each story. Almost all of the characters prominently featured in the story had a particular unenchanted view of life.