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    <body><![CDATA[Murakami is not a great author for passive readers.  If your main interest in fiction is plot and story, and especially if you tend to be the sort of reader who plows straight through a book and then thinks about it only after you're done, &quot;After Dark&quot; is going to be unsatisfying.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3176045">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[(My full review of this book is larger than GoodReads' word-count limitations. Find it at the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com].)<br/><br/><em>&quot;You know what I think?&quot; she says. &quot;That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether tho...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2261318">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>مرد: به نظرت می‌توانیم به زودی باز همدیگر را ببینیم؟<br/>زن: منظورت این است که قرار بگذاریم؟<br/>مرد: می‌شود این جوری هم گفت<br/>زن: اما چند بار بهم گفته‌اند که شخصیت ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65878278">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After Dark is the first book by Haruki Murakami that I’ve read. I was warned by many that I would not enjoy it. But they’re all delusional and wrong.<br/><br/>After Dark isn’t a traditional novel. It isn’t a plot driven story and in fact, not much actually happens. After Dark takes place i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42466282">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I find myself thinking about Murakami's books long after I've read them. Murakami compares writing to jazz music and with his writing it is true. Just as I find myself humming memorable bits from songs like Take Five, I also come back again and again to passages of Murakami's novels and short storie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22680644">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't like the book very much.  It read like something he tossed off, like it was a book between books, like a book to satisfy a contractual obligation: the literary equivalent of a B-sides collection, or maybe a greatest hits collection, only not very good.<br/><br/>There wasn't anything very ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12243758">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ah, Murakami, why couldn't you have tried harder?  Couldn't you have completed this work?  Or if it wasn't possible within the always-confining time-frame of 24 hours in the life of these characters, couldn't you have dropped that idea?  The story's ending on a note of hope came off as forced, while...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2964534">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As I Murakami fanatic, I feel justified in saying, Eh. I suppose he's the master of fashioning a career resting on two or three great novels (Kafka... Windup...) and then keeping his name in the news by producing plenty of light as air oughtta-be-short stories padded so thick with fat margins and li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23510829">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I believe that the power of Murakami's work is in it's ability to make the regular irregular.  After reading this book I was speaking with someone about how his books generally belong in a genre that I find hard to define.  I almost want to consider his work some kind of Science Fiction because they...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15314556">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There was one part in this book that I really liked.  A girl is sitting at a Denny's, reading, and this &quot;stray mutt&quot; of a man walks in and plants himself in the seat across from her, asking if she isn't so-and-so's sister.  She's quiet and -- get this -- she &quot;looks at him with eyes th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9445279">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ugh.  what a boring read: another &quot;beautiful&quot; but lost japanese girl + confused sister + dude on a motorcycle... all going nowhere a little slowly, which is the point, i suppose.  i don't even care that my copy is signed by mr. murakami...  the signature didn't make the book any more inter...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26866187">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i have really enjoyed murakami books in the past, so i was quite looking forward to reading this one.  after dark feels more like a long short story than a novel.  you're never really told what's going on in a murakami book, and this story is no exception.  but, if you are willing to go along for th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15068835">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this one really compelling--I find Murakami generally fascinating. His odd slant on contemporary culture--both Japanese and American, or maybe really world culture--is fascinating, unsettling and strangling satisfying.<br/>It begins with an encounter in Denny’s (Murakami is fascinated wit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36095707">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA['After Dark' is the first work that I have read by Murakami. I enjoy his writing style, which seems to me to be an examination of the micrososm that is a human being. This is something that I often have trouble keeping in mind, as it is sometimes hard to remember that the guy in front of you at the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28945168">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Haruki Murakami explores that special time of day between midnight and morning.  He does so with a nice flow of descriptive prose and dialogue that makes you feel like you haven't slept for a day.<br/><br/>The book revolves around a girl who's hanging out in the city at night because she can't sle...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18805109">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found myself trying not to compare and be disappointed with <em>After Dark</em> because it wasn't <em>Norwegian Wood</em>... But then I got over it and compared the crap out of it.  I thought <em>Norwegian Wood</em> was an absolutely brilliant piece of work, and if it so happens that an author's achieved brilliance has beco...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7211095">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started this book at 3:30 on an insomniatic Friday night and finished it on the subway on the way to work on Tuesday. It was a rather apropos reading schedule considering the format of <em>After Dark</em> which begins around midnight and ends around 7 AM. <br/><br/>It's a simple and sufficiently enjoyabl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3130482">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have always had mixed feelings about Murakami.  He has a very unique style, which I appreciate, but sometimes it leaves  the realm of reality a bit too far behind.  There was definitely elements of that in this book.  It has the patented Murakami darkness, the modern day angst, classically done by...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2079057">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book during two Borders sessions (sitting in one of their chairs and reading a book that they still own) the week it came out.  This was my least favorite Murakami book so far.  His descriptions were lacking some of their normal fire, and the book attempts to put the reader in the positi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3404945">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book, in my humble opinion, is simply unreadable.  I could not bring myself to finish it, and I love Haruki Murakami.  I don't know if the cinematic style was just something he was experimenting with or if it marks a new movement in writing, but whatever the case it makes me want to puke in my ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14746374">more...</a>]]></body>
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