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Dance Dance Dance (The Rat #4)
High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem. Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic pros...more
Paperback, 393 pages
Published
February 7th 2002
by Vintage
(first published 1988)
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هاروكي موراكامي أحب أن أصنفه تحت بند الكُتَّاب البارعين في "تأثيث" خيال القارئ لما له من قدرة عجيبة على تحويل مشهد عادي لصورة ثلاثية الأبعاد زاخرة بالرتوش والتفصيلات وتلك المقدرة العجيبة في تمرير عدة أشياء أمامنا بطريقة سهلة ولكنها تتحول بواسطته لشيء سهل-ممتنع (آها يجب أن أتوقف هنا ماذا يقصد، ماذا يعني ...... تأمل، تفكير المحصلة هذا الرجل سارد جيد للقصص) هذا النوع يتماشى معي تماماً
نجح موراكامي بسرده الانسيابي في دخول خيالي وشغل حيزاً منه وص...more
رواية نغماتها طرب يرفع من مستواها تلك الاثارة في دوزان ايقاعها....عندما تكون في ضيافة هذا الكاتب فالاقامة رفيعة المستوى والمضمون....رواية رقص تجد فيها كل ما يروق..فن ..معرفة ..حكمة..تسلية..ثقافة وكما أن اسلوب الكاتب يجبرك على المتابعة دون أن تشعرك صفحاته التي تعدت الخمسمائة بالملل...شيقة
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This book is a beautifully written social commentary, mystery novel, and of course fantasy. Set in Japan in the 1980s, at the height of the country's economic rise, it tells of a solitary magazine writer who suddenly has a strong urge to search for his old girlfriend. The only lead he has is a hotel he stayed in with her once, the Dolphin Hotel. As he tracks her down, he first finds that the hotel has changed from a tiny dump into a luxury high-rise, and yet there is a mystery within it. He gain...more
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I can't really justify my love of Murakami. As far as I'm concerned, he writes novels specifically for me to read them. It would probably save us both a lot of time and trouble if he'd skip the publishing process and just slip his finished manuscripts under my door. So I'm biased, you could say.
In short: this is early (ish) Murakami. If you dig it you'll dig it, if not you won't. I dig it.
Just make sure you've read his "Trilogy of the Rat" before reading this. Seriously. It's important. Or at th...more
In short: this is early (ish) Murakami. If you dig it you'll dig it, if not you won't. I dig it.
Just make sure you've read his "Trilogy of the Rat" before reading this. Seriously. It's important. Or at th...more
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As one of Haruki Murakami's earlier novels, Dance Dance Dance is quite a feat. I really did enjoy it, but found a number of flaws that lessened my opinion of the work. It appears to be a sequel to the novel A Wild-Sheep Chase, which I have read, but the story lines overlap almost imperceptibly, meaning no, you do not have to read one in order to read the other. Dance Dance Dance has an almost nonexistent plot line. The main character is a middle-aged divorcee at a dead end job who is so maddenin...more
Ik ben weer helemaal in de ban van de magische sfeer die er in de boeken van Haruki Murakami hangt.
Toevallig is dit boek het vervolg op "De jagd op het verloren schaap".
Vreemde dromen lokken onze held terug naar het dolfijnenhotel, dat inmiddels een merkwaardige metamorfose ondergaan heeft. Op de plaats van het oude shabby hotel staat een hypermodern hotel met dezelfde naam.
Toch treedt onze protagonist, evenals anderen (i)voor(/i) hem op een bepaalde etage van het hotel een merkwaardige, naar sc...more
Toevallig is dit boek het vervolg op "De jagd op het verloren schaap".
Vreemde dromen lokken onze held terug naar het dolfijnenhotel, dat inmiddels een merkwaardige metamorfose ondergaan heeft. Op de plaats van het oude shabby hotel staat een hypermodern hotel met dezelfde naam.
Toch treedt onze protagonist, evenals anderen (i)voor(/i) hem op een bepaalde etage van het hotel een merkwaardige, naar sc...more
L'aver conosciuto Haruki Murakami nelle pagine di Tokyo Blues Norwegian Wood, per quanto avessi poi letto pure L'uccello che girava le viti del mondo, ha senz'altro concorso ad alimentare la sorpresa con cui mi sono trovata a sfogliare questo corposo romanzo. Pur nella copiosità delle citazioni letterarie e musicali che strizzano l'occhio all'Occidente, nei fatti, Dance Dance Dance è intriso di suggestioni tutte orientali. Nel gioco di rimandi e scatole cinesi che trasforma la narrazione princip...more
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I fall in love with every girl I see. Every girl I meet. It's true. I fall in love a hundred times in a week. It's always been like that. So very easy to look at these girls and their legs and their teeth while they ride the bus with me, while they shop for groceries next to me, while they wait in line at the bank in front of me. Because I don't have to really connect to them then. I don't have to really see the nakedness and the scars and the tan lines and the pimples under the makeup. I don't...more
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I have now read a grand total of three Murakami novels (After Dark: loved it, Norwegian Wood: did NOT love it and this) and the thing is mostly I just can't figure him out. My instinct is to not like his writing and yet the book that I liked the most, After Dark, is the most unlike genre's I usually enjoy.
Dance, Dance, Dance is sprinkled with the fantastical(?)that at first really irritated me but eventually....didn't exactly "win me over" but didn't have me rolling my eyes in exasperation. And...more
Dance, Dance, Dance is sprinkled with the fantastical(?)that at first really irritated me but eventually....didn't exactly "win me over" but didn't have me rolling my eyes in exasperation. And...more
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Hace tiempo que no me desvelaba con un libro. Este libro me hizo sentir miedo, nervios y curiosidad por el desenlace. Mi primer libro de Murakami y quedo abierta a seguir leyéndolo.
If you like delving into the absurd, then Murakami is probably the one to look for.
Set in Japan in the 1980s, we follow a magazine writer, a little bored with his job, as he travels to the Dolphin Hotel, in search of a call-girl he used to date. Along the way you meet a host of eccentric characters; a clairvoyant teenager, a successful movie star, a one-armed poet, a mysterious sheep-man. And all these people are connected somehow with the protagonist's search for this girl.
This is not a book...more
Set in Japan in the 1980s, we follow a magazine writer, a little bored with his job, as he travels to the Dolphin Hotel, in search of a call-girl he used to date. Along the way you meet a host of eccentric characters; a clairvoyant teenager, a successful movie star, a one-armed poet, a mysterious sheep-man. And all these people are connected somehow with the protagonist's search for this girl.
This is not a book...more
للتو انتهيت من رواية رقص رقص رقص للروائي الياباني المعروف هاروكي موراكامي، أحب روايات هذا الرجل دون أن أملك إجابة محددة عن سر المتعة التي تحملها رواياته، إنه يملك كاريزما السرد كما وصفه أحد الأصدقاء ذات مرة.
قرأت له من قبل الغابة النرويجية ورواية جنوب الحدود غرب الشمس، هناك شيء خفي ولذيذ في سرده. وأبطال موراكامي دائما لا يعانون البطالة ولا الفقر ولا يواجهون القمع ولا تشغلهم مشكلات السياسة المباشرة، لكنهم يعانون وبشكل يبدو مرضيا من ذلك الشعور القوي بعدم الحصول على السعادة، ورغم أن هؤلاء الأبطال يت...more
قرأت له من قبل الغابة النرويجية ورواية جنوب الحدود غرب الشمس، هناك شيء خفي ولذيذ في سرده. وأبطال موراكامي دائما لا يعانون البطالة ولا الفقر ولا يواجهون القمع ولا تشغلهم مشكلات السياسة المباشرة، لكنهم يعانون وبشكل يبدو مرضيا من ذلك الشعور القوي بعدم الحصول على السعادة، ورغم أن هؤلاء الأبطال يت...more
i was on vacation while reading this, and i found any excuse to pick it up... waiting for my hair to dry after a shower, two minute ride in a crowded metro, in queue for security check-in... you get the idea. but more and more it seems that the books i can't put down are also the ones that don't sit well with me... a literary bag of cheetos, if you will.
this is the second murakami novel i've read after the excellent Kafka on the Shore, and i was surprised at my disappointment with its basic com...more
this is the second murakami novel i've read after the excellent Kafka on the Shore, and i was surprised at my disappointment with its basic com...more
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I think that if I was lost in the never-ending sea of the Gobi desert, somewhere between Mongolia and China, had fallen into a deep narrow hole, and was unable to get out, so resigned to the darkness that surrounded me, with only a fleeting moment of sunlight and warmth each day, but armed with a flashlight and a box of batteries, a blanket and pillow, and a flask of rootbeer, and was given the choice of one book to read, while waiting for the search-and-rescue teams of the Japanese Imperial Arm...more
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Something of noir and something of the common man that is not quite so normal that Murakami specializes in so well, this novel leads the reader through the dream world once again.
What is strong in the book is what is typically strong with the author. The sense of individual personalities shining through in a way that comments upon society. Here we speak of "advanced capitalism" and Murakami's reflections on the way that we have shifted from a traditional system, not only economically but emotion...more
What is strong in the book is what is typically strong with the author. The sense of individual personalities shining through in a way that comments upon society. Here we speak of "advanced capitalism" and Murakami's reflections on the way that we have shifted from a traditional system, not only economically but emotion...more
This is my first foray (redundant much? please forgive)into Murakami. I hate to say that I'm actually surprised that I enjoyed it so much. I don't know, maybe I just assumed that since I'm not really into Asian Culture that I would write it off and just know that at least I'd given it a try.
The first person narrative approach usually doesn't work for me. I have a hard time escaping into the story, knowing that the character is just relaying it to me. But, here, the protaganist is able to engage...more
The first person narrative approach usually doesn't work for me. I have a hard time escaping into the story, knowing that the character is just relaying it to me. But, here, the protaganist is able to engage...more
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So far, 1/8 of the way in I am mesmerized. I'm still waiting for the plot to begin, but I don't care. I feel like I've become an extension of the character's psyche.
1/2 way through. I can't stop reading. Does everyone have a Sheep Man of their own? Mine is an older lady who watches out for me and whispers in my ear if malevolent beings are in the area. There is no way that I'm reading the next book on my "to -read" list before another Murakami novel. This is too beautiful! ..."It's nothing less...more
1/2 way through. I can't stop reading. Does everyone have a Sheep Man of their own? Mine is an older lady who watches out for me and whispers in my ear if malevolent beings are in the area. There is no way that I'm reading the next book on my "to -read" list before another Murakami novel. This is too beautiful! ..."It's nothing less...more
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I've read a lot of comparisons between Murakami and PKD and while I think that the two are comparable (Murakami even acknowledges this in the book), saying so is like calling them both economists. Phillip K. Dick is the macro-economist of transcendental human experience describing the sweeping changes of a landscape encompassing all technology and spirituality, while Murakami is the micro-economist looking at the subtle influences and almost non noteworty supernatural forces in our modern societ...more
Sep 07, 2007
Lord Beardsley
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2 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
people who have already read the wind-up bird chronicle and who are somewhat forgiving
Shelves:
read2007
Murakami reached his top form with The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and followed it with the (not as good, but still fantastic) Kafka On The Shore. That being said, this novel was written in 1988 when Murakami still had a ways to go.
The same elements of his style are all here: the main character who is somewhat a loafer and who takes pleasure in simplistic daily routines, the precocious young female character who he sort of falls in love with but is more just friends with, the elements of magical sur...more
The same elements of his style are all here: the main character who is somewhat a loafer and who takes pleasure in simplistic daily routines, the precocious young female character who he sort of falls in love with but is more just friends with, the elements of magical sur...more
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May 10, 2007
Kelly
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5 of 5 stars
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I absolutely adore Murakami's way of creating bizarre incidents that aren't necessarily explained or tied together nicely like a typical mystery novel. Mind and reality clash in his works, and Dance, Dance, Dance is one of his most fascinating journeys of this clash.
The story centers around a place: a hotel that was once charmingly seedy but has undergone a complete transformation. When the protagonist tries to figure out what happened to the hotel's former existence, people get nervous. Remnant...more
The story centers around a place: a hotel that was once charmingly seedy but has undergone a complete transformation. When the protagonist tries to figure out what happened to the hotel's former existence, people get nervous. Remnant...more
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I just could not relate with the main character who was kind of a loser who becomes obsessed with finding out about an ex-girlfriend who never really liked him. His "whatever happened to her" thoughts take over his mind and he decides to live in a hotel where they once stayed in order to track her down. So if they weren't that great together, why does he change his whole life in order to find her? I don't get it.
The hotel is very surreal. It's as if he's living in a dream that is bordering on a...more
The hotel is very surreal. It's as if he's living in a dream that is bordering on a...more
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A sequel to "A Wild Sheep Chase", " Dance Dance Dance" is a more mature and overall superior novel to its excellent predecessor. Less plot orientated and more focused on the little details, "Dance Dance Dance" is sublime and moving. It was one of those books that I just didn't want to end. The narrator/protagonist breathes a unique life into everythng around him, and I found myself once again addicted to finding out what would be the topic of his next rumination. It is chock full of the typical...more
3 and 1/2 stars. I enjoyed this, but like its 'prequel' A Wild Sheep Chase (though I found it unlike its prequel in style and tone) I think it's not as accomplished as his other works. With its elements of an unaffected (though likable) unnamed narrator and a missing woman, this is a good intro to Murakami. The only 'standard' Murakami element that seems to be missing is the theme of the effects of war on individuals. But there is plenty on other kinds of personal politics, esp on the effects of...more
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It's not you, Murakami, it's me. Generally I love all things Murakami. Dance, Dance, Dance was just not Murakami-ish enough for me. Not odd enough, quirky enough, or quite fantastical enough. The fantasy fits too neartly with the protagonist's search for self and ability to emotionally connect. It is clear that the book is one of Murakami's earlier works, the language isn't as smooth as it is in his later work. What's more the pacing seemed really off. This could have been a shorter book by at l...more
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There is something schizophrenic about this book, as there should be.
Murakami is the master of surrealist magic/fantasy, and he does it like no one else. That is why his best works, in my opinion, are Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Because those two novels give him unfettered liberty to explore that genre, in a poetic way, and to play around with the mind. And that is why his worst works tend to be the more 'realistic' ones, like Norwegian Wood.
Dance, Dance, Dance is a co...more
Murakami is the master of surrealist magic/fantasy, and he does it like no one else. That is why his best works, in my opinion, are Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Because those two novels give him unfettered liberty to explore that genre, in a poetic way, and to play around with the mind. And that is why his worst works tend to be the more 'realistic' ones, like Norwegian Wood.
Dance, Dance, Dance is a co...more
حسنًا إذًا انتهى الرقص .. وآن لنا الآن .. أن نجمع "النقطة" ! مممممم
الذين يعرفون "هاروكي" قطعًا لن يعتبروا هذه الرواية من الروائع، ولكن فيها كل ما في عالم هذا الرجل من سـرد سلس ومتدفق، وعوالم يمتزج فيها الواقع بالخيال والحقائق بالوهم والأحلام
قد يجلس الكثيرون بعد هذه الرواية ينظرون للعالم والأهداف التي يرمي إليها الكاتب، من سرد رحلة شخصٍ يبحث عن فتاةٍ أحبها (أو افتقدها ) ثم نقلته إلى عوالم لم يكن يحلم بها أو يتخيلها، ليعود مرة أخرى، ولكنه يعود للماضي!
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الذين يعرفون "هاروكي" قطعًا لن يعتبروا هذه الرواية من الروائع، ولكن فيها كل ما في عالم هذا الرجل من سـرد سلس ومتدفق، وعوالم يمتزج فيها الواقع بالخيال والحقائق بالوهم والأحلام
قد يجلس الكثيرون بعد هذه الرواية ينظرون للعالم والأهداف التي يرمي إليها الكاتب، من سرد رحلة شخصٍ يبحث عن فتاةٍ أحبها (أو افتقدها ) ثم نقلته إلى عوالم لم يكن يحلم بها أو يتخيلها، ليعود مرة أخرى، ولكنه يعود للماضي!
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قد تبدو هذه الرواية أو تحيل إلى أفلام أ...more
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The book was ok, but like most books I listen to, I could not stand the voice actor narrating the book. He basically just played famous people. When playing the main character he sounded like Christian Slater. When playing cops he sounded alternately like Nicolas Cage and George Bush. When playing female characters he sounded like Bruce McCulloch when he imitated women on Kids in the Hall. UGH!!
For being so devoted to putting on so many different voices for a book, he didn't even take the time t...more
For being so devoted to putting on so many different voices for a book, he didn't even take the time t...more
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Sep 01, 2011
Luna.
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Recommended to Luna. by:
Zeina Todea
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A fost o carte foarte bună. Mi-a plăcut mult ideea şi cursivitatea acţiunii. Interesante au fost şi incursiunile în vise şi atenţia acordată graniţei şubrede dintre realitate şi ficţiune. Desigur, personajele au fost de asemenea captivant construite, prezenţa Omului Oaie şi a lui Kiki fiind cele mai pregnante pe parcursul întregii lecturi.
Totuşi, chiar dacă am lăudat-o atâta, poziţionarea geografică, numele oraşelor şi ale locurilor mi-au creat dificultăţi. E destul de aiurea să încerci să cite...more
Totuşi, chiar dacă am lăudat-o atâta, poziţionarea geografică, numele oraşelor şi ale locurilor mi-au creat dificultăţi. E destul de aiurea să încerci să cite...more
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Haruki Murakami (村上 春樹) is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. His work has been described as 'easily accessible, yet profoundly complex'.
Since childhood, Murakami has been heavily influenced by Western culture, particularly Western music and literature. He grew up reading a range of works by American writers, such as Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and he is often disting...more
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Since childhood, Murakami has been heavily influenced by Western culture, particularly Western music and literature. He grew up reading a range of works by American writers, such as Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and he is often disting...more
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