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Manic Pixie Dream Girl meets Boy Who Has Sex With Everyone and people tell a lot of boring stories. This book is great if you like descriptions of hand jobs. Also the women’s pleasure is clearly not important at all. It had some great prose — “the silence of all the misty rain in the world falling on all the new-mown lawns of the world” — which is why it gets the third star, but overall, snore.
Very dark and gloomy, yet really inspiring especially about life in Japanese culture. No wonder Murakami became one of the best modern classic authors nowadays. He pictured the depressing moments really well. The main character is very likable, although the sexual contents are sometimes a bit too much for my taste. Fortunately Murakami included some dark humor into the sex scenes. I think I would really interested to read more Murakamis.
Wow, I loved this book. I think it's clear how it's probably going to end up for all the characters but even when it finally all comes about, it was still utterly heartbreaking. Each character had such depth I was feeling their feelings with them. Even the ones that we barely see were developed to such an extent it amazed me. While it's true that it's "just another love story" to me it's a modern love story that really tugged at me. In the end it's about choosing life and to live, even when it g
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if you accuse me of giving this book five stars based primarily on the lesbian sex on pages 153, 154, and 155--i'm not about to deny it. now i could see where the story line of sputnik sweetheart may have come from. otherwise this is "typical murakami" which means i like it a lot.
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