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Mar 14, 2020
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As I mentioned in my review of Norwegian Wood, it was RM of BTS fame who inspired me to start reading Murakami and I picked NW from a list of books that RM recommended. After finishing Norwegian Wood, I looked at the list again and decided to deep end it and chose this as my next Murakami read. And though I didn’t like this quite as much as I did Norwegian Wood, I did still like it quite a lot. I was fully braced for the weirdness and though it got super weird, I still found this to be compellin
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Kafka on the Shore is typical Murakami: surrealism, fate, coming of age, music, literary references to Greek tragedies, all the aspects that we have come to expect. You can't help but love the quirky light fantasy that is so much a part of Murakami's writing. All I can say is, if you like Wind-up Bird Chronicle an 1Q84, you will be very comfortable with Kafka on the Shore.
01/06/23: Re-read for a challenge. I've been wanting to re-read Murakami's works for a while now, so this challenge gave me t ...more
01/06/23: Re-read for a challenge. I've been wanting to re-read Murakami's works for a while now, so this challenge gave me t ...more
So it took me several weeks to read this colossal novel by the great Haruki Murakami. I finished at one this morning. In order for me to vent about what bothered me about this book, I would have to go into specifics regarding the last hundred pages or so. I won't do that.
Instead, I can just say that the writing was gorgeous. The metaphors were luscious and dreamlike. The characterizations were strong and for several hundred pages kept me riveted when, honestly, not much was happening. Nakata, an ...more
Instead, I can just say that the writing was gorgeous. The metaphors were luscious and dreamlike. The characterizations were strong and for several hundred pages kept me riveted when, honestly, not much was happening. Nakata, an ...more
How do I describe this? The author is an incredible writer, the story is fascinating, but oh, so weird. The title feels like it should be Oedipus instead of Kafka. It's only after I finished the book and put it down that I realized I'd just read a story about a boy who slept with his mom. During the story, it seems as normal as anything else (and yeah, the whole book is rather odd).
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