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Dance Dance Dance (The Rat #4)
In this propulsive novel by the author of Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and The Elephant Vanishes, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work in any language fuses science fiction, the hard-boiled thriller, and white-hot satire into a new element of the literary periodic table.
As he searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, Haruki ...more
As he searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, Haruki ...more
Paperback, 416 pages
Published
November 17th 2010
by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
(first published 1988)
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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 ...more
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 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 th...more
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 h...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 h...more
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 ex...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 ex...more
in the world war of short fiction writers, he is Hiroshima
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
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 ...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 ...more
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 to...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 to...more
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
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people who have already read the wind-up bird chronicle and who are somewhat forgiving
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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...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...more
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 nerv...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 nerv...more
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 t...more
The hotel is very surreal. It's as if he's living in a dream t...more
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....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 effec...more
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
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 tak...more
For being so devoted to putting on so many different voices for a book, he didn't even tak...more
We shall see if the hype is warranted ...
It wasn't, actually. I can see why people might be fans of Murakami -- he does have gems of ideas and concepts that grab you, for example, in Dance, Dance, Dance the notion that everything that exists is somehow connected, if only we could find the connections, and that a character (the Sheep Man -- real, imaginary, past, present, future, who knows, because the lines are blurred anyway) functions as a "switchboard", making the connections....more
It wasn't, actually. I can see why people might be fans of Murakami -- he does have gems of ideas and concepts that grab you, for example, in Dance, Dance, Dance the notion that everything that exists is somehow connected, if only we could find the connections, and that a character (the Sheep Man -- real, imaginary, past, present, future, who knows, because the lines are blurred anyway) functions as a "switchboard", making the connections....more
Non è la realtà che è distorta, è solo leggermente alterata. Come quando è pomeriggio e fuori c'è la neve e decidi di vedere la tv. Poi ci ripensi, inserisci nel videoregistratore una VHS e ti piazzi sul divano. Il film è bello, ti piace, lo hai visto centinaia di volte. Poi il film finisce e ti resta addosso quella sensazione leggera leggera che ti fa dire: ma cosa c'era di strano questa volta?
Ecco, Dance Dance Dance è un libro strano. Scorriamo le pagine ricercando continuamente quel particol...more
Ecco, Dance Dance Dance è un libro strano. Scorriamo le pagine ricercando continuamente quel particol...more
Dance Dance Dance conferma la vena onirica e surreale di Haruki Murakami, come avevo già avuto modo di constatare leggendo L'uccello che girava le viti del mondo e La ragazza dello sputnik.
Potrebbe essere considerato a pieno titolo il romanzo rappresentativo di questo filone muramakiano: di nuovo la sovrapposizione di mondo onirico e mondo reale, personaggi enigmatici e tormentati, atmosfere sospese.
Quello che adoro di Murakami sono le descrizioni essenziali ma non per queste meno dense o evocat...more
Potrebbe essere considerato a pieno titolo il romanzo rappresentativo di questo filone muramakiano: di nuovo la sovrapposizione di mondo onirico e mondo reale, personaggi enigmatici e tormentati, atmosfere sospese.
Quello che adoro di Murakami sono le descrizioni essenziali ma non per queste meno dense o evocat...more
Uno di quei libri dai quali non devi aspettarti qualcosa di lineare e normale, che ti porti ad una conclusione certa e che risponda alle tue numerose domande nate durante la lettura. Niente di tutto questo. Questo è il secondo libro di Murakami che leggo. Non esagero dicendo che il suo stile è proprio quello che fa per me. Mi ritengo abbastanza scettica riguardo i romanzi moderni. Infatti ho sempre letto libri cronologicamente datati e che conoscevo a grandi linee perchè classici. Murakami rappr...more
Finished Murakami's Dance Dance Dance and have the distinct impression that I'm missing something. Noir plus unreliable narrator plus expansive, poppy hopefulness equals very confused reader. Part of the essence of noir is that the narrator is, even if neurotic, grounded; this narrator appears grounded, and he comes out okay in the end in true Hollywood fashion - or does he? There's something Brazil-like about the delirious, philanthropic tone the narrator takes at the end, and of course Murakam...more
Харуки Мураками танцува странен танц: http://www.knigolandia.info/2009/11/blog...
До преди ден Харуки Мураками бе напълно непознат писател за мен. Чувах често хвалебствия и в крайна сметка в ръцете ми попадна книгата “Танцувай, танцувай, танцувай”, която започнах с очакване за нещо хубаво.
В центъра на разказа е журналист на свободна практика, който не може да намери смисъл на живота си. Занимава се с писане на халтурни статии за качествата на ресторанти, или както сам сп...more
До преди ден Харуки Мураками бе напълно непознат писател за мен. Чувах често хвалебствия и в крайна сметка в ръцете ми попадна книгата “Танцувай, танцувай, танцувай”, която започнах с очакване за нещо хубаво.
В центъра на разказа е журналист на свободна практика, който не може да намери смисъл на живота си. Занимава се с писане на халтурни статии за качествата на ресторанти, или както сам сп...more
This was the only major Murakami I hadn't read. It's a sequel to A WILD SHEEP CHASE, which itself is the third in The Trilogy of the Rat whose first two books have never been published in the US. (Yes, Dance Dance Dance is a sequel to the last book in a trilogy, but it's not a part of that trilogy. Don't ask me, I just read the stuff.) Being a type-A reader, I scoured the internet and ended up with copies of HEAR THE WIND SING and PINBALL 1973, read them, and then re-read WILD SHEEP CHASE as...more
Più leggo i suoi romanzi più me lo domando, ma non riesco mai a darmi una risposta esaustiva.
E’ un genio, che ha quella capacità innata di coinvolgerti nelle sue storie senza che te ne renda conto, ma anche un folle con una capacità visiva allucinante.
I suoi libri riescono a suscitare in me una varietà tale di emozioni da soffocarmi, i suoi personaggi mi rimangono talmente impressi nella mente da portarmeli dietro nella vita quotidiana, tra me e lui è nata una sorta di alchimia, co...more
E’ un genio, che ha quella capacità innata di coinvolgerti nelle sue storie senza che te ne renda conto, ma anche un folle con una capacità visiva allucinante.
I suoi libri riescono a suscitare in me una varietà tale di emozioni da soffocarmi, i suoi personaggi mi rimangono talmente impressi nella mente da portarmeli dietro nella vita quotidiana, tra me e lui è nata una sorta di alchimia, co...more
I really want to like Murakami. But then sometimes I feel like he's just trying to convince me that he's a really good cook. Or that he would be in person. & sometimes I can't tell if would think it genuinely funny to walk into a police station quoting T.S. Elliot. I can't tell if the bad jokes are supposed to be good jokes or if they're supposed to be bad jokes that make of the characters themselves particularly good jokes. In which case there would have to be a lot of hand-shaking all around. ...more
I realize I have given just about every Murakami book 4/5 stars but that's because I normally find all of his novels consistently strong, worth reading, but not life changing in and of itself. I do think that over time your life changes after having read several of them because you start to think about other worlds, alternate realities, dreams, and ghosts. You start to consider space and time as well as concrete life differently and it opens you up a bit..expands you...makes you think of the r...more
There's an expression popular amongst those of us with writerly aspirations: No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader. If you've plotted and planned out every detail of your book you'll never truly throw your reader for a loop. If, however, on page 342, as you're finishing your first draft, you realize that - holy crap! - your heroine is going to commit suicide, chances are you'll be instilling a rather holy crap feeling in your reader as well. They never saw it coming and how coul...more
God, so much praise for a writer so dreadful. I shouldn't waste my time being negative about something I find so terrible and so many love, we should stay away from each other. I do understand a lot is lost in translation, but there is nothing appealing about this. Murakami admits to sitting at a desk and approaching writing like a 9 to 5 job, 'this is my story, this happened, then this happened...' There is no depth, no craftsmanship, no art, no interesting story or 3rd dimensional characters.
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