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Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World
by Haruki Murakami

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  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8346675?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
  Well this book is written by the same author as Kafka on the Shore. I wasn't really surprised at the technique the author used. He does tend to shift from one character and back to the other. Like usual I don't exactly know how the two characters relate during the beginning and middle of my reading but somehow when I finish reading I figure it out. This book contains the two main characters: the Dreamreader and the Calcutec. This book is written based on first person narration from both characters. The characters alternate in each chapter. It's pretty interesting yet confusing. This book was actually a bit confusing. Some parts I either didn't understand the language (writing style, diction) or I just couldn't imagine the story based on the words. This author can be extremely descriptive(sometimes to a point where I want to stop reading. ex: In one chapter the author describes a brief step by step of how the Big Boy destroys the Calcutec's home and how Junior cuts a line about 6 centimeters on the Calcutec's skin, the belly area)and since I have a good imagination, I can imagine the story while I'm reading it. I do admit that sometimes I do get chills from the descriptions and freak just a bit. Overall I really liked this book. I hope to look forward to reading more of his writing. Like the previous book I read, I am still amazed at how this author can shift from one character to another and still find a way to give the reader suspense; it lures me in the book. And also how the author can intertwine these two different yet similar characters but in an extremely confusing way that it can't be figured out until the end.
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<br/>The two characters in the book were similar yet very different. At first I thought it was just the same character but in different dimensions. They both had a connection with the unicorn's skull. The Calcutec has something embedded in his brain called "the End of the World". He's the launderer and the shuffler. When he does shufflig he isn't conscious. He just listens to a specific tone to activtate "the End of the World". He gets into that conscience and writes the shuffled data. When he's done he comes back into his right mind.
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<br/>The other character is the dreamreader who lives in a place called "the End of the World". He has been separated with his shadow and he's attempted to get it back. In this place nobody has a shadow. Apparently it's not needed and it will only cause trouble. This place is also not escapable. There's a wall that blocks people from going out. he does see the shadow once and the shadow asks for a map. The dreamreader makes one.
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Tiffany's review
status: Read in January, 2008

Well this book is written by the same author as Kafka on the Shore. I wasn't really surprised at the technique the author used. He does tend to shift from one character and back to the other. Like usual I don't exactly know how the two characters relate during the beginning and middle of my reading but somehow when I finish reading I figure it out. This book contains the two main characters: the Dreamreader and the Calcutec. This book is written based on first person narration from both characters. The characters alternate in each chapter. It's pretty interesting yet confusing. This book was actually a bit confusing. Some parts I either didn't understand the language (writing style, diction) or I just couldn't imagine the story based on the words. This author can be extremely descriptive(sometimes to a point where I want to stop reading. ex: In one chapter the author describes a brief step by step of how the Big Boy destroys the Calcutec's home and how Junior cuts a line about 6 centim...more Well this book is written by the same author as Kafka on the Shore. I wasn't really surprised at the technique the author used. He does tend to shift from one character and back to the other. Like usual I don't exactly know how the two characters relate during the beginning and middle of my reading but somehow when I finish reading I figure it out. This book contains the two main characters: the Dreamreader and the Calcutec. This book is written based on first person narration from both characters. The characters alternate in each chapter. It's pretty interesting yet confusing. This book was actually a bit confusing. Some parts I either didn't understand the language (writing style, diction) or I just couldn't imagine the story based on the words. This author can be extremely descriptive(sometimes to a point where I want to stop reading. ex: In one chapter the author describes a brief step by step of how the Big Boy destroys the Calcutec's home and how Junior cuts a line about 6 centimeters on the Calcutec's skin, the belly area)and since I have a good imagination, I can imagine the story while I'm reading it. I do admit that sometimes I do get chills from the descriptions and freak just a bit. Overall I really liked this book. I hope to look forward to reading more of his writing. Like the previous book I read, I am still amazed at how this author can shift from one character to another and still find a way to give the reader suspense; it lures me in the book. And also how the author can intertwine these two different yet similar characters but in an extremely confusing way that it can't be figured out until the end.

The two characters in the book were similar yet very different. At first I thought it was just the same character but in different dimensions. They both had a connection with the unicorn's skull. The Calcutec has something embedded in his brain called "the End of the World". He's the launderer and the shuffler. When he does shufflig he isn't conscious. He just listens to a specific tone to activtate "the End of the World". He gets into that conscience and writes the shuffled data. When he's done he comes back into his right mind.

The other character is the dreamreader who lives in a place called "the End of the World". He has been separated with his shadow and he's attempted to get it back. In this place nobody has a shadow. Apparently it's not needed and it will only cause trouble. This place is also not escapable. There's a wall that blocks people from going out. he does see the shadow once and the shadow asks for a map. The dreamreader makes one....less

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