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Another random purchase from my impromptu overseas trip to a bookstore where I had to choose reading items without data access to a single Goodreads rating, like in the olden days.
Sad to say, this felt remarkably empty; nothing happens; the ending makes little sense; the main character treats the handful of different women he's romantically involved with super horribly, acknowledging what he's doing while it's happening, feeling guilty but with no(? see spoiler below) repercussions. Sorry, Murak ...more
Sad to say, this felt remarkably empty; nothing happens; the ending makes little sense; the main character treats the handful of different women he's romantically involved with super horribly, acknowledging what he's doing while it's happening, feeling guilty but with no(? see spoiler below) repercussions. Sorry, Murak ...more
Creepy!
"Someday, somewhere, I will see this scene, I felt. The opposite of deja vu--not the feeling that I'd already seen what was around me, but the premonition that I would someday."
"The bald vulture lives by devouring art. The regular vulture lives by devouring the corpses of unknown people." ...more
"Someday, somewhere, I will see this scene, I felt. The opposite of deja vu--not the feeling that I'd already seen what was around me, but the premonition that I would someday."
"The bald vulture lives by devouring art. The regular vulture lives by devouring the corpses of unknown people." ...more
Oct 13, 2017
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Yet again Murakami comes up with something completely different. A story of love and longing, the past and the present. It is hard to define this book but it ia well worth reading
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