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    <body><![CDATA[I have always liked jazz music but I don’t think I qualify as a fan. But this book seems like a jazz symphony to me (I’m kind of clueless about jazz. Is there something like a “jazz symphony?”) It’s smooth, mysterious and leaves you thirsting for more.<br/><br/> firmly believe that you d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9185355">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really didn't enjoy this book, but it did make me think about why, so at least it had that going for it.<br/><br/>I found Hajime an infinitely unlikeable character, but I couldn't put my finger on the details of why.  He had no problem doing things that would hurt the women he claimed to &quot;l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13907688">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Unlike his more dreamlike, fantastical novels, this one by Murakami is a rather domestic (but not mundane) tale about a Japanese man who's married to a woman he's never truly connected with, reminiscing about his first love: a girl with a limp whom he shared a love of music with and whom he lost tou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2964530">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[On page 15:<br/><br/>&quot;Her hand, which up till then had laid on the back of the sofa, she now placed on her knee. I stared vacantly at her fingers tracing the plaid pattern of her skirt. There was something mysterious about it, as if invisible thread emanating from her fingertips spun together...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40411445">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[لم تكن هذه الروايه أول روايه شرق اسيوية <br/>قرأتها فقد سبق وأن قرأت مجموعه قصصيه صينيه منذ فتره<br/>تمتد للسنتين .. عندما بدأت هذه التي الروايه كنت اشعر أن هناك شيء ما <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51399610">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not sure what to say about this book. On one hand, I couldn't put it down and read it almost nonstop until it was done.  I was completely caught up by the story of Hajime and Shimamoto and couldn't wait to find out what would happen next. The down side, is that there's basically no resolution. I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37477405">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A meditative and evocative book, it casts a deep spell that I've been under for several hours now since finishing. As with all of Murakami's work, there is a certain loneliness one suffers and how we deal with that loneliness and aloneness is one of the distinctive characteristics of his books. This...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24772563">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Murakami's typical surrealist narrative is nowhere to be seen here. Instead we are presented with a fairly simplistic, albeit realistic, story of a man (Hajime) who has everything and yet finds himself &quot;missing something.&quot; This &quot;something&quot; takes the form of another woman from his...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50475385">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Duke Ellington once said about ¨the star crossed-lovers¨ -a theme he wrote in an album for a festival in order to honor Shakespeare- that it was the song for Romeo and Juliet because the two melodic lines of it, they dance around to each other but they really never touch... <br/>And of course a l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41256530">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my second Murakami novel. I enjoyed <em>Dance, Dance, Dance</em> slightly more, but this is also a really good novel.<br/><br/>There's an elegance to Murakami's prose that is really satisfying to read. Someone likened it to jazz, and there's something in that. Smooth, cool, <em> Kind Of Blue</em> jazz. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40733819">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One thing is certain - Murakami is a master of the written word, and this translation more than does his elegant, sparse yet densely image-filled style justice. However I have yet to be convinced of his powers as a storyteller.<br/><br/>This book is full of subtle and tightly-wrought emotions: lon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80585053">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So it comes down to the missing Nat King Cole record and envelope full money for me.  When you get to the end of a novel and Hajime, the first person narrator, starts going on about 'alternate reality' and how because the senses and memory are so unreliable that you need external objects to confirm ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70176433">more...</a>]]></body>
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