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Read in March, 2007
recommends it for:
Anyone who likes unique and interesting short stories
I buy everything that this man writes, but I would have bought this solely for the short story Tony Takitani. I first read that one story in the New Yorker in 2002. I instantly fell in love with it. While some may disagree, I thought the story about a simple man who marries a woman with an obsession with buying shoes and their eventual downfall and release was near perfect. I own many of the stories in one form of another that appear in this book, and yet to see them all collected together is a ...more
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Read in September, 2008
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die-hard Murakami fans who won't be thrown off by a less-than-steller collection
About a third of the way through "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman" I actually had to stop reading and tuck the book into the back of my bookcase in order to preserve my self-identification as a Murakami fan.
Although the prose itself was predictably beautiful the stories didn't grab me, didn't keep me very engaged. For me, not his best work(s). If you want to sample Murakami for the first time I'd suggest bypassing this particular collection and diving straight into Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World...more
Although the prose itself was predictably beautiful the stories didn't grab me, didn't keep me very engaged. For me, not his best work(s). If you want to sample Murakami for the first time I'd suggest bypassing this particular collection and diving straight into Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World...more
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Read in October, 2007
There's some great stories in this collection, including Tony Takitani. The short story form suits Murakami's surreal and phantasmagoric landscapes well, and though there are some misfires, there's more good stuff in here than bad.
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Read in January, 2008
i think haruki murakami is one of very few authors who can strike a chord with me. his stories about loneliness are always amazingly good. this one is no exception. contains 24 short stories - it is a wonderful collection
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