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Kafka on the Shore
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August 29, 2014
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September 25, 2014

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ambyr
If I had to choose one word to describe this book, it would be "tedious." There are interesting ideas here, but they're buried in minutia. As a novella, I might have enjoyed it; as a novel, I was mostly just glad it was over and that I wouldn't have to read any more pages about how the characters ate, dressed, or shit.

Also, I will grant that Kafka is realistic as a fifteen-year-old boy, but that doesn't change the fact that his cock is much more interesting to him than it is to me.

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