After Dark
by Haruki Murakami
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There wasn't anything very compelling about the characters. They were wooden, and not very fleshed out, like vaguely romanticized caricatures.
The narrative suffered--I'm guessing--because of the translation; there were details her...more
It's a simple and sufficiently enjoyable book--one that I'm sure hardcore fans and mild appreciators can both agree is 'Minor Murakami.' But it brings up an interesting conflict that I think is implicit in Murakami's writing, namely that hi...more
"You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to the fire, they're all just paper."...more
To me, Murakami is a great author for teaching you how to read (forgive me) proactively. He works a lot with impressions and mood, so that it's most rewarding when the reader stops after every few sentenc...more
The book revolves around a girl who's hanging out in the city at night because she can't sleep, a man who beats a prostitute and steals her belongings, and the girl's sleeping sister in a nearby suburb. All these storylines intertwine in a sense, but also hold up on their own. The chapters are lai...more
But AmazonUK has this synopsis: The midnight hour approaches in almost empty all-night diner. Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a young man, a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home. The musician has plans to rehearse with his jazz band all night, Mari is equally unconcerned and content to read, smoke and drink coffee until dawn. They realize they've been acquainted through Eri, Mari's beautiful sister. The musician so...more
In Mari, Murakami has created a contradictory character: A girl who looks like a boy, a Japanese more comfortable with Chinese, a good girl with a dark curiosity. Mari roams Tokyo after hours while her si...more
That's good stuff.
This seems to be something Murakami does, actually~ he compares the way one character looks at another to...more
By Webster’s definition, a novel is “a fictitious tale or romance.” By further definition, “A fictitious prose narrative, involving some plot of greater or lesser intricacy, and professing to give a picture of real life, generally exhibiting the passions and sentiments in a state of great activity, es...more
recommends it for: people who don;t want a light read saturday afternoon
























