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All of Murakami books are similar: walks around Tokyo, time in the mountains or the beach, Jazz cafes, books, movies, cats, how to cook pasta, and a touch of the supernatural. Anyway this is why I read Murakami, I know what to expect and it is what I want from his books.
I would recommend reading A Wild Sheep Chase before reading this book.
I would recommend reading A Wild Sheep Chase before reading this book.
Murakami has for ears whatever it is that Tarantino has for feet.
There's a haunting quality to Murakami's writing and strange aimlessness in his plots, and this book is no exception. I love him, I really do. He is masterful and unique and writes magical realism like no one else, and one of the few writers whose plots are so forgetful yet who seems to inject the reader with sense-memory, peace and dread mingling together.
However--a big however--I was distracted by this fetishization of female y ...more
There's a haunting quality to Murakami's writing and strange aimlessness in his plots, and this book is no exception. I love him, I really do. He is masterful and unique and writes magical realism like no one else, and one of the few writers whose plots are so forgetful yet who seems to inject the reader with sense-memory, peace and dread mingling together.
However--a big however--I was distracted by this fetishization of female y ...more
Sep 20, 2013
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I'll be the first to admit that I don't entirely get Murakami a lot of the time, but there's something intriguing about the way he writes and the layers he creates even as I'm left feeling that I don't entirely follow him. I think it comes from the fact that the characters are revealed less through their actions but more through the back-and-forth of influence between the pairings.
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This is vintage Murakami. Weirdness abounds.For most of the time nothing happens, except inside the narrator's mind. And yet the descriptions of how he passes the time are quite riveting-partly because of the languid and quietly humorous style of the narrator. While nothing is happening, he becomes entangled with the (now expected) collection of surreal things: a psychic 13 year old whose mother regularly forgets her existence, the mysterious Sheep Man, a one-armed poet, and a now-famous friend
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This is what I was hoping for when I read "Kafka on the Shore," one of Murakami's later books and perhaps not the best choice for a first-time reader of his work.
"Dance Dance Dance" is narrated like a hard-boiled detective novel, but plotted like a fever dream. The characters are memorable and altogether likeable. The prose is sharp and effective, even when guiding you through rather mundane aspects of the nameless narrator's life.
What really sold this book to me was the amazing final fifty page ...more
"Dance Dance Dance" is narrated like a hard-boiled detective novel, but plotted like a fever dream. The characters are memorable and altogether likeable. The prose is sharp and effective, even when guiding you through rather mundane aspects of the nameless narrator's life.
What really sold this book to me was the amazing final fifty page ...more
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