I so much wanted to rate this trilogy with 5 stars. Yet, parts of the third book disappointed me so terribly much I even stopped reading for a while to stare at the room wondering if I really just read what I read. Was there another author at work here? Did the translator do a terrible job on this s...
Let me start by saying that I am a huge Murakami fan. I love his prose, the surreal elements of his plots, and the inexplicably alluring atmosphere imbued in everything that he writes. All this being said, 1Q84 didn't exactly blow me away. Don't get me wrong, I really really enjoyed this novel, but ...
Now that I am finally done reading this mammoth epic book, I can breathe a big sigh of relief that I made it through. For a bit I wasn't so sure I was going to make it, but I kept putting in my hour a day, hoping for the best, and finally I'm here at the end. Whoot! Let me begin the review this wa...
Having finished Hard Boiled Wonderland a week earlier, I was psyched to read 1Q84. By 300 pages in my interest was waning, but I was willing to cut Murakami some slack. I figured I was only around 1/3 in and there was plenty of time for a turn around. By 700 pages in, I was just trying to finish it....
Murakami is awesome. So much so that I actually own all but a couple of his books. Even his What I Talk about when I Talk about Runningis worth owning. Having said that, 1Q84is not Murakami's best book ever, so it really deserves only a 5*- rating, not a full 5*. It's difficult to describe what make...
More precisely my grade would something around 3.8.So it implies this isn't Murakami's best work, or at least not for me.It starts off amazing, as Murakami always does and it's all fantastic and brilliant until it becomes redundant, and a bit to easy or oversimplified ( at least for Murakami ). And ...
So very long, but wonderfully paced and completely engrossing. But there were a few elements of the story and things I could do without. I understand completely why it's one of Murakami's more divisive works, and why people think it's just a pile of nothing.
Is it too long?-YESDoes it have too many food recipes that one could be a chef after reading the massive 1300 pages ?-YESDo all characters summarize the story every two pages?-YESSSSS! On the bright side; The writing and the story is amazing, explicit and unique well it`s a Murakami after all. ...
Aomame is a fitness instructer who is recruited by a client to carry out special assignments. A taxi driver's strange proposal to her changes her world. Tengo is a math teacher and aspiring novelist. Re-writing a manuscript for a dyslexic teenager changes his world.Linked by a powerful event that ha...
First of all, I must congratulate myself for finishing this huge amount of pages in eight days. Too bad I was disappointed by this latest Murakami book (I must correct that, he also published a new book in 2013, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage). I am helplessly in love with othe...
Important: Our sites use cookies.
We use the information stored using cookies and similar technologies for advertising and statistics purposes.
Stored data allow us to tailor the websites to individual user's interests.
Cookies may be also used by third parties cooperating with BookLikes, like advertisers, research companies and providers of multimedia applications.
You can choose how cookies are handled by your device via your browser settings.
If you choose not to receive cookies at any time, BookLikes will not function properly and certain services will not be provided.
For more information, please go to our Privacy Policy.
Log in with Facebook 
