So glad to hear someone else feels the way *I* do about Wild Sheep Chase. ^_^ Seriously, it's all Haruki Murakami BEST THING EVAR have you read Wild Sheep Chase??? (Followed by 'His protagonists are so western.' 'Except in their passivity, and then they're very Japanese.')
I hope 1Q84 will be like Kafka on the Shore, but there's really no calling Murakami. And true, the plot has very little to do with the actual experience of reading the book. Like Ulysses, I suppose, only more so, because Murakami isn't doing clever riffs off Homer (Spot the applicability!) and stylistic loop-the-loops.
One must read prefaces after reading the book. Still a pain.
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I hope 1Q84 will be like Kafka on the Shore, but there's really no calling Murakami. And true, the plot has very little to do with the actual experience of reading the book. Like Ulysses, I suppose, only more so, because Murakami isn't doing clever riffs off Homer (Spot the applicability!) and stylistic loop-the-loops.
One must read prefaces after reading the book. Still a pain.