Hmm. Indeed, I own several of the Haruhi light novels, and I find the dialogue to be just fine but Kyon's narration is unbearably advanced for me (both the kanji and the vocabulary used). Every now and then I might read a paragraph of his narration without consulting the dictionary, but it's a rare, rare event. Because of that, the novels just gather dust on my bookshelf.

I've never heard of ADV games before. Looking it up, it sounds a lot like the text-based RPGs of the 1980s. Cool. Any suggestions? Know of any freeware or open-source ones that were good?