Killing Commendatore

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Jennifer Yes!!! I've read every bit of his fiction. I can't wait. And 1Q84 is possibly one of the best things I've ever read. Always played Janacek's Sifoniett…moreYes!!! I've read every bit of his fiction. I can't wait. And 1Q84 is possibly one of the best things I've ever read. Always played Janacek's Sifonietta when reading it for the full effect. (less)
Helia Rethmann I hear you, Chad Smartt. If this were Murakami's first novel, it would have a hard time finding a publisher, is my guess, and if it did the publisher …moreI hear you, Chad Smartt. If this were Murakami's first novel, it would have a hard time finding a publisher, is my guess, and if it did the publisher would advise him to cut the novel by a third. All this "And then I went to the cupboard and took out a plate, and I put my tuna sandwich on the plate and carried the plate with the sandwich on it to the living room where I sat down on the red couch to eat it." But as Murakami fans know, this incredibly dull passage will soon be followed by a hole in the ground opening up and swallowing the narrator whole. Or an 'idea' will appear in the form of the two-foot Commendatory from the picture he found and challenge his perceptions. Maybe the juxtaposition of dull mundanity and all-out weirdness is what keeps Murakami fans going? (less)
Jim
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Alla I love meditative quality of it, it’s pace, rich details and depth. Perhaps because I meditate myself and if you are doing it long enough you don’t ha…moreI love meditative quality of it, it’s pace, rich details and depth. Perhaps because I meditate myself and if you are doing it long enough you don’t have to sit down and make it into an event, pretty much anything can become a meditation. So the book is just like that, a meditation. Long? I don’t think so. It’s not a coincidence that Murakami talks about time and its absence in the book. I am glad it took me 20 days to read it. Because it’s not about getting from one place to another it’s about how!.. and paying attention to the details.
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