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A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat #3)

by Haruki Murakami, Donald Last (Translator)

3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 · rating details · 27,785 ratings · 1,466 reviews

His life was like a recurring nightmare: a train to nowhere. But an ordinary life has a way of taking an extraordinary turn. Add a girl whose ears are so exquisite that, when uncovered, they improve sex a thousand-fold, a runaway friend, a right-wing politico, an ovine-obsessed professor and a manic-depressive in a sheep outfit, implicate them in a hunt for a sheep, that m...more

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Published 2003 by Vintage (first published 1982)

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May 02, 2011 Joel rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011, 52-in-2011, detective-y, favorite-authors, japan, personal-collection, translated, cats, vote-getters, murakami

Reading Murakami is like experiencing someone else's dream. Trying to review Murakami is like trying to remember your own -- scattered events, confusing narrative lapses, inexplicable elements, petrified whale penises. A series of images:

And then you wake up. And wonder what that was all about.

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Apr 28, 2009 Megha rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: reviews

'A Wild Sheep Chase' is a trippy tale with a mix of detective story, myth, fantasy and philosophy. Though it can be enjoyed simply as a fable at its face-value, just a little thought reveals a multi-layered allegory. On one hand, "the sheep" could signify post-war Japan itself. At the same time, the protagonist's sheep chase also ends up being a search for his own identity, his emotions and meaning of his existence. It is as much a physical journey as a spiritual journey. There are also several...more

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Oct 21, 2010 Mariel rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Miss New Zealand

Recommended to Mariel by: Little Bo Peeping Tom

I wish I could have written about Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase here when I'd read it. I wish that goodreads was around back then. The magical and plain old world as we know it life through best teacher voice (this is my favorite kind of voice because I'm a confused person) that made the every day seem full of possibilities. Sinister possibilities as well as good ones. That's my favorite kind of thing, the ability to make that stuff interesting, with easy humor. I'm really into the build-up of the little things. Just something worth living and writing about, mental connections and wave lengths. I dug the off-kilter off the map stuff not as (sur)reality, but a new voice in my head. It's not hard to relate to being confused about the future. Murakami has written some of my favorite narrarators I've ever read, the kinds of guys that remind me of best friends (or friends I would have, if I ever met people like that). Like from a line in one of his books [probably Norwegian Wood D'oh it was Sputnik Sweetheart! My memory picks the most inconvenient times to correct my gr reviews (such as when I'm trying to sleep).] about having a friend you could call up at three in the morning and talk about anything.

I can't remember everything I thought about it (it must be time for a reread), but I remember very well that elusive things almost making sense and being restless 'cause I couldn't feel like that all of the time. There's something about Haruki Murakami that makes me want to just go somewhere. Those are the strong feelings in my memory gut, and why I'd not hesitate to name A Wild Sheep chase as one of my favorite books. It made me feel something outside of the book, a moving for something...

The sequel Dance, Dance, Dance was not as good to me as A Wild Sheep Chase. What I felt I was almost getting was nowhere to be found (I'll have to review this one sometime because I had a lot of nagging thoughts about the so-called fantasy life of prostitutes. Murakami's later work After Dark is not so short sighted). The prequel Hear the Wind Sing I had to buy from ebay in early '00s. I felt most keenly a longing for something more than really being moved. I really wanted to go somewhere, I recall. Curse my fleeting memory and confused inner voice.

My twin and I sent our brother a post card of a sheep with a drawn on black star on its butt. He devoured every Murakami he could get his hands on. It's too bad I can't send goodreaders sheep postcards.(less)

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Oct 18, 2007 Chris rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Fans of the impossible and the fantastic.

Shelves: translations

When one is approached by a random person and asked to locate a life form that is physically unable to exist, but which you have a picture of, and you choose to do it because you have to, you know you're in for something fantastical. Part noir thriller, part philosophical daydream, the wild sheep chase moves effortlessly along (partially due to the brilliant translation), and scene by scene we are more and more drawn into the story of soon to be thirty year old J. Philosophical detours into enty...more

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Apr 01, 2008 Jaci rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: people who want a rather light read that can develop into something deeper

Shelves: read-in-2008, own

A Wild Sheep Chase was the third book that I have read by Murakami. I found out after I finished that it is that third book in "The Trilogy of the Rat". The first two books in this series are now out of print, but after reading A Wild Sheep Chase, I think I have to chase down some used copies of the novels and experience the trilogy in full.

I interpreted the novel to be a story of emotion journey more than a story of physical journey. There was an actual journey involved as the main character we...more A Wild Sheep Chase was the third book that I have read by Murakami. I found out after I finished that it is that third book in "The Trilogy of the Rat". The first two books in this series are now out of print, but after reading A Wild Sheep Chase, I think I have to chase down some used copies of the novels and experience the trilogy in full.

I interpreted the novel to be a story of emotion journey more than a story of physical journey. There was an actual journey involved as the main character went in search of the mythical sheep, but the true focus of the book was on the character's emotions. Murakami didn't even give the protagonist (or many of the other characters in the novel) a name. The main character could stand for any one of us.

I believe that the mythical sheep can be seen as either "the meaning of life," which sounds cliche but bear with me, or, "what happens when we lose sight of the true meaning of life".

Our main character (let's call him Max for discussion's sake) finds himself at the end of his marriage. His wife have left him for a friend of his, and he can't understand what that guy has that he doesn't, since the friend doesn't have a lot of money and he plays the guitar too much.

The girlfriend that "Max" hooks up with following the breakup of his marriage is a talented, quirky girl who compliments his own quirks nicely. Yet throughout the relationship, he is obsessed with her ears, a part of her, instead of the whole of her. She, on the other hand, has shown herself to be quite devoted to him, even supporting and joining him on his quest for the sheep.

These examples, plus his long-running friendship with his business partner and the company that they ran together, all worked together to form a meaning to his life that "Max" was unable to recognize or embrace. He was on his own sheep chase looking for meaning that he already had. When he finally caught up with The Rat and had their final chat on the mountain, he realized, to a small degree, what he had been doing wrong. The Rat had left everything he knew behind, including a woman who loved him, in search of new environments and new adventure in hope of some new meaning in life. What he ended up doing was forsaking the people and life that cared about him, that gave his existence meaning, and was overtaken by the mythical sheep. The encounter and habitation with the sheep revealed to The Rat that he had wasted his true meaning and life and was now left with an empty existance, when he should have appreciated and found meaning in the path he was originally given. The results for The Rat were thusly catastrophic. "Max", realizing this, leaves the mountainside with no girlfriend, no business, no business partner, and no wife, but with the enlightenment that it is not too late to find meaning in his life.

As a side story, the Sheep Professor serves as a microcosm of the larger plot. Having everything he needed in a profession that he loved and a family who cared for him, he gave it all up and sought "the sheep". He had the sheep as a part of him for a period of time, only to lose even that. In the end he was left with nothing except a son who wished that his father had cared more about him.

I loved the way that "Max's" emotions were described throughout the novel and how through "Max" we can see the results of not appreciating what we have, and also the overall process of what it is like to develop emotionally and truly realize what is important to us, what fulfills us, and what we need to do to keep those things in our lives.(less)

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Jul 24, 2012 param rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: patient readers, lovers of language

This is not an easy book to read, review or discuss. You will either love it or hate it (more likely - never read it). I liked it. The swirling, kaleidoscopic imagery with freely overlapping of the physical and the metaphysical, the real and the imaginary, the utterly sane and the completely cuckoo makes us question what is real and what is not.

For a tranquil setup, the Prelude (the first 7 pages) whizzed by before I even realized. And I was appropriately intrigued. By page 20, I don’t know wha...more

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Mar 10, 2009 Phoebe added it · review of another edition

Shelves: friction, dubious-genre-works

The first couple chapters of Haruki Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase are beautifully written and very effective--they slowly start to weave a story about a man's unsuccessful romantic relationships. These initial chapters are told with an intense attention to detail, both physical, visceral details and emotional details.

But then the book gets "weird" and takes a nose-dive.

I say "weird" in quotation marks because nothing in the first two hundred and fifty pages (of a 350-page book) is really that su...more

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Feb 04, 2013 Zenmoon rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Just about everyone ... spread the world with Murakami

Shelves: murakami, literary-fiction, magic-realism, japanese-literature

Our hand-reared cockatiel is on borrowed time if she continues to peck lumps off the books on my Murakami shelf. Clearly, she likes his books as well (but for different reasons than me). She moved from 1Q84 (unread), to this book, as the little bite marks attest.

Vacuum the paper trail. Breathe. Ahhhhhhhhh.

Oh my goodness, every time I read this man I swoon with admiration. There’s something extremely comforting for me, knowing I’m in the hands of a masterful technician of the written word like M...more

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Feb 28, 2013 Bettie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: handbag-read, paper-read, winter-20122013, tbr-busting-2013, published-1982, amusing, doo-lally, japan, magical-realism

Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum

Opening: It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition. A friend rang me up to read it to me. Nothing special. Something a rookie reporter fresh out of college might've written for practice.

Ginko leaves strewn across the ground.

#60 TBR Busting 2013

Also have the audio file:(view spoiler)...more

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Mar 30, 2008 Tosh rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Murakami, even thought he's super famous, is someone I wouldn't read if I read the plots. They sound on the surface too new agey for me. But the fact is he is an incredible craft-style writer that makes you want to turn the page faster and faster. I rarely met a person who doesn't at the very least enjoy his books.

"A Wild Sheep Chase" is one of the first for him to go into a sort of fantasy world - but still based on the world that we know. There's Tokyo but it could be almost any large city in...more

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Aug 20, 2012 Alden rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: haruki-murakami

First Read: Three out of five (3/5) stars

A Wild Sheep Chase is a Murakami masterpiece which will take you to what seems to be a crazy wild ride. It focuses on an unnamed male character (as always) – a divorced man who works in an advertising firm and ended up going on a wild sheep chase that involves the most surreal characters you could ever imagine -- a sheep man, a sheep professor, a girl with exquisite ears that improves sex drive, a dolphin hotel, a rat, and some endless possibilities. To t...more First Read: Three out of five (3/5) stars

A Wild Sheep Chase is a Murakami masterpiece which will take you to what seems to be a crazy wild ride. It focuses on an unnamed male character (as always) – a divorced man who works in an advertising firm and ended up going on a wild sheep chase that involves the most surreal characters you could ever imagine -- a sheep man, a sheep professor, a girl with exquisite ears that improves sex drive, a dolphin hotel, a rat, and some endless possibilities. To tell you the truth, the actual plot is a bit hard to summarize. The story goes from strange to exceptionally surreal, even by Murakami's standards, and doesn't quite come together in the end.

I really enjoyed this book but not that much. It was genuinely intelligent and very intriguing, and it holds the mystery in a very strange way. But I think it doesn't come close to Murakami’s better efforts. I also felt disappointed because some parts that sounded important remained unclear and seemed scattered without any connection. To make the long story short, A Wild Sheep Chase for me is not that good but fairly interesting, and recommended for people who have time and who are patient enough to read a different kind of book.

I've been reading a lot of Murakami books for the last month (half of the eight books that I read last May was Murakami’s) and I think I need a break in doing so. I realized the cold hard truth that even if you’re a big fan of a certain author, there comes a point when you’ll suddenly get tired of that author’s style as you read his/her works one after the other. It’s just too exhausting when you read a book that involves cats, music, loneliness, sex, and the same themes and elements over and over.

Just to clear things out, I still love Murakami’s books and I will forever be a true-blooded fan of his works. As I've said, I just need to take a break, probably a one-month hiatus from reading his works. I’m sorry Dance Dance Dance, I think you’ll have to wait for a month before letting me enter into your bizarre world.

Second Read: Four out of five (4/5) stars

There is really a different kind of feeling when you reread a book. As the saying goes: "The best part about rereading a book is how your knowledge and perception of the characters change. You get to know them slowly and eventually are let in on all the little quirks you missed before."

I guess it's time to reread my books. 1984, you're on queue!(less)

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Sep 12, 2012 Jordi Via rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: currently-reading-again

"La caza del carnero sin nombre"
Cinco estrellas le di por la primera lectura (la leí cuando tenía treinta y un años), y cuatro en la segunda, 8 años después.
Quitaría cuescos y pedos y alguna parte rimbombante.
Pero en general y, sobre todo la parte final, consigue que uno se vuelva a reconciliar con su antiguo yo; comprender por qué me gustó tanto la primera vez y por qué he sido un poco más crítico esta segunda. Sólo por eso, por lograr que viaje en el tiempo y me vea de nuevo en "aquella" sit...more

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Jan 30, 2013 Jelle Peersman rated it 3 of 5 stars

Murakami's first widely published novel. It took me a while to get into this one, the first 30 pages or so went very slowly. This is the fourth book by him I've read and it seems to me that Murakami wasn't yet running at full speed with this one. All the Murakami-typical elements are here: a cat, solitude, girls, cooking, smoking, drinking and also crazy shit. There are great parts in here: the Dolphin hotel, the chauffeur and the mystery surrounding the man in the black suit and the sheep, the...more

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Feb 26, 2013 Liz* rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Liz* by: The Holy Terror

Shelves: male-author, haruki-murakami, magical-realism

The photography of a wild sheep has appeared on a magazine. A story about obsessive quests, unfruitful chases, memories of what's been lost, weakness, casual sex, beautiful ears, loneliness, being nameless, the constant of mediocrity, inside demons. And an unexpected supernatural touch.

Some facts about reading this book:
* It's my first Murakami. After this weird dream I had a few weeks ago, I just felt like reading some of his work. Thank's to The Holy Terror, I decided to start with this one.

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Jul 26, 2012 Auggie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: philosophy, spooky, great-reads, dark, contemporary, asia

Creepy.....as....hades.

But that's why I loved it!!!

I'm serious. This book was so creepy it had me wiggling around in my seat in discomfort. Yet, I was absolutely captivated! I couldn't put the book down!

If you're a reader looking for a book that will take you more than one read to truly grasp, then this is the book for you. It had my brain churning and my fingers tapping with nervous energy.

I'm not going to give a bit of a run-down of the book as I've done in previous review mostly because it wo...more Creepy.....as....hades.

But that's why I loved it!!!

I'm serious. This book was so creepy it had me wiggling around in my seat in discomfort. Yet, I was absolutely captivated! I couldn't put the book down!

If you're a reader looking for a book that will take you more than one read to truly grasp, then this is the book for you. It had my brain churning and my fingers tapping with nervous energy.

I'm not going to give a bit of a run-down of the book as I've done in previous review mostly because it would sound too convoluted out of context. All you really need to know is our main character is forced to go chase a non-existent sheep out in the cold country. He gets trapped on a mountain, in a creepy cabin, all alone, and is occasionally visited by a sheep-man.

There you go.

Murakami's imagery is rich and the meaning of his works heavy and grey, like a cloud hanging right over your head while the sun shines everywhere else. He is not an "IN YOUR FACE" horror master. He's the type that likes to really get under your skin in a very subtle way so that he has unguarded access to your subconscious. When he gets there he gets busy digging and thrashing around and without suspecting it... you're suddenly disturbed.

I honestly have no complaints about this book. To be truthful, I really need to read it a few more times to better gather an understanding for the work. As a piece of pure entertainment it's thrilling, as a work of intellect it's probing and there are quite a few exchanges in the book that make you say "Wait... What?" You wish you had the option to raise your hand and ask for an explanation.

A Wild Sheep Chase is a love child of myth and philosophy and there's plenty to decipher along the literary journey from cover to cover. That's what's so nice about it, and it's what makes this book a fantastic one for a book club that's really looking for some grit to grind.

The sheep-man is probably my favorite character, though he's undoubtedly the most bizarre and unsettling. He shows up randomly and you're never quite sure if he's real or not. You're never completely positive that the main character hasn't lost his mind. Near the end of the book you're not even completely positive that you haven't lost your mind. Doesn't that make a darn good book?!

Highly recommend this work. ABSOLUTELY. (less)

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Dec 17, 2012 Jason added it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2010

What makes Murakami so worth reading is his deceptive simplicity. His prose is very simple, with no fantastical vocabulary (except for food), no heavy reliance on wordplay or overuse of simile and metaphor for description. Even more so, his stories build, starting ordinarily, then slowly adding a dose of the surreal--not in events, but in the portrayal of them. In A Wild Sheep Chase, nearly everyone and everything is a pronoun.

When you finish the novel, you may very well have forgotten how it b...more

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Aug 05, 2010 Amanda rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Amanda by: Sam Rosenberg

Shelves: book-club

I think most accurately 3.5 stars.

Exactly what it purports to be: a wild sheep chase. Our protagonist sets out to a far corner of Japan in search of a mutant sheep on a deadline imposed by a mysteriously powerful man in black. Along the way we meet a girl with beautiful ears, the perhaps saddest cat in a Murakami book yet, a chaffeur who calls up God every night, and many people associated with sheep.

I actually liked A Wild Sheep Chase better than some of the other Murakami fiction I've read (so...more

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Oct 31, 2010 Gerrard rated it 4 of 5 stars

No se si A Wild Sheep Chase pertenece al realismo mágico, al postmodernismo o a la novela de detectives, pero al parecer es ya parte de la firma de Murakami el balancearse indiscretamente entre estos generos.

Protagonista, Rata, J, Novia, Secretario, Chofer, Hombre Oveja, Profesor Oveja, son todos parte de un Japón que se ha recuperado de la guerra solo en apariencia, pero que soporta con un orgullo terco y en secreto heridas muy profundas, un Japón en que la tecnología avanza demasiado rápido, d...more

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Jan 21, 2008 Herrikias rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Animist anticapitalists

Recommended to Herrikias by: Sonja

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. With expectations set low by The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, this one probably benefited and turned into a pleasant surprise. The directionless main character who seems to meander between odd encounters based on the flows perpetuated by everyone else around him was more endurable. Maybe because there was a base motivation to keep it strung together as opposed to scattershot. Murakami's disdain for the elevating of the rich as beloved is easier to discern here. Maybe the symbol fit this time. There'...more

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Nov 18, 2007 A&E rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, finished

The latest Murakami I read was also my first: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, given to me by Nina for my fifteenth birthday. It is widely considered as the "poster boy" book for Murakami, with the inconspicuous and jaded narrator and his wild search for something even he cannot understand, and all the strange and fantastic elements and characters he meets along the way.

And though a lot of themes and small details from Wind-Up Bird reappeared in Sheep Chase, I think I became more emotionally involved...more

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May 02, 2008 Yulia rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: by-and-of-japan, i-thought-i-hated-you

This was my first Murakami experience and I don't know if I was adequately prepared for what to expect. In 2002, a guy I was briefly seeing raved about Murakami and gave this book to me with the highest recommendation but, just as our relationship quickly fizzled, so did this book. However much I liked the novel's first half, the aimless and other-worldy ending turned me off Murakami until 2005, when I had to cancel a trip to Japan the day before my flight and ended up going to the hospital and...more

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Jul 04, 2007 Nated Doherty rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anyone who's already read Murakami

This book, as others have said, was slow to pick up. Many elements are familiar, seeminly standard washed out Murakami male lead looking lacking meaning. Initially a complete lack of identifiable female characters with ummmm...character...a sense of nhilistic freedom.

Also as others have said, it picks up a great deal around the half way mark, once the character gets on the quest. The sketching of Hokkaido makde me want to go there, as Pat said, the environment, the atmosphere of the book are gre...more

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Apr 10, 2009 Anna rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Murakami completists only--not a good entry point into his oeuvre.

I have to say that I didn't like it quite so much as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. I have yet to encounter anyone who violently dislikes Murakami, but this particular novel contains many of his trademarks carried to such an extreme that I imagine any would-be detractors would certainly hold this particular novel up as reason enough to dismiss his body of work: meandering plot, unsatisfying ending, inexplicably surreal imagery, pop culture allusions. It definitely started out with some promise, but...more

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Sep 22, 2007 Lisa rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Fans of great magical realism

I don't know what it is about magical realism that seems most appropriate to a foreign setting. Is it the different-ness of foreign places that allows us to believe that magic hides behind everyday lives, and only a few stumble upon it, or is it the straightforward, bootstraps-hard work-money-success nature of America that precludes it? Either way, this story is a great introduction to Murakami. The story is so interesting and compelling that some of the quirks are barely noticeable. For example...more

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Jul 30, 2007 Bina rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: anyone with a pulse

I read this book after being medically evacuated to Singapore, while locked up for a two-day recovery in a French hotel. I couldn't walk very much at the time but it was no matter thanks to this book.

For me, it is Murakami's best, a lucid dream strung together with some of the most beautiful phrases in literature. At the risk of sounding pathetically infatuated, it made me happy to be alive; it gave me the hope I often lack about the potential for creative genius in our times.

Its sequel, Dance,...more

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Sep 13, 2012 Sergsab rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Una fuerza de voluntad que domina a aquel que la posee. Unas orejas que atraen acontecimientos extraordinarios. La crisis de los 30 más reveladora reflejada nunca en una novela. Un Murakami del pasado rescatado mucho tiempo después.

La técnica del autor no está definida del todo. Pero la brutalidad de lo no tratado surge aquí como borbotones de agua. Menos sofisticado, pero de dentellada certera.

Cierre perfecto en su simplicidad y amplitud de miras.

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May 25, 2008 Amber rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I wasn't all that impressed with this book. I love Murakami and have read three other books by him. The ideas in this book are good and some of them kept me thinking and even inspired me to write about them, but the themes took over the book and the plot and characters suffered. I found myself only finishing it in hopes that somehow I would end up being impressed by it, as I was with the Wind Up Bird Chronicle. Whta I did really like about it and this can be said of all his writing is that the s...more

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Jul 08, 2007 maria rated it 4 of 5 stars

dear murakami,

seriously.

best,

m.

p.s. one of the things i have noticed about murakami which is quite specific to me (perhaps?) is how utterly he destroys me. i find myself being taken into a world of symbols and thoughts and characters that bring me through to strangely heightened dreams and feelings and thoughts in the meanwhile of reading. there is something deeply connective about the lonliness that permeates his work. the lonliness as he defines it. the sense of a singular individual and their...more

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Feb 10, 2008 Jodie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I have read a few of Haruki Murakami's other books and this was my least favorite. It was simpler and less dreamlike than his other books I have read. I like his books because they don't always make the most sense. This one was about a guy who receives a picture and a letter from a friend with sheep. There's one sheep that is not like the rest. A man proposes a mission to this guy to find this sheep. Or rather he forces the guy to do it. Murakami takes the reader from Tokyo to the contrast setti...more

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Aug 08, 2012 Julie Tridle rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I loved it. Easy read. No characters you hate. Wonderful language. Effortless mix of realism and not-so-realism. No boring spots (that I detected.) No lack of things to think about. Sheep. What's not to love? Will definitely seek out more Murakami soon.

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