![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The opening scene, for example, takes place on a heavily jammed Toyko highway overpass in the late afternoon, and we watch as our first main character, Aomame, gets out of a cab - in the middle of the traffic jam - and climbs down a utility staircase on the side of the highway. He has a way of tapping into the weirdness of every day life, and staying with it, giving the reader just enough information to be intrigued, but not enough so you can see where the story is headed. Why?įirst of all, it's something about "mood." From the very opening pages of the book, Murakami creates an eerie feel. And yet.I read a novel at least as long as those by a 21st century Japanese writer whose novels - 10 years ago - I could barely stand. I haven't even read War and Peace or The Count of Monte Cristo because the sheer volume (the sheer weight) of those books makes my spine shiver. It's just really difficult to get a handle on why I enjoyed this bizarre novel enough to stay with it for the hours and hours it took to finish it. I feel like a 1200 page novel deserves a better review than what I gave it in my last entry. Sorry, but I have to come back to 1Q84 for moment. ![]()
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