Murakami is one of those rare authors where you don’t mind getting a bit lost when you read one of his books. In fact, if you’ve read anything by the man you kind of expect to get lost. Nothing is ever what it seems. Objects, even people, take on different meanings without you even realizing it at f...
If I had to choose one word to describe this book, it would be "tedious." There are interesting ideas here, but they're buried in minutia. As a novella, I might have enjoyed it; as a novel, I was mostly just glad it was over and that I wouldn't have to read any more pages about how the characters at...
Lovely writing, but I seriously just couldn't make it through. The Oedipus narrative just seemed so tired and trite that I couldn't engage with the primary device of the book.
3.5 may be..I never felt rating any book as perplexing as 'Kafka on the Shore'. Rating this was one of toughest thing to do. At times I just wanted to give it full 5 stars just for the beautiful writing but strangely I could/did not! After a lot of thinking I came to a conclusion of rating it 3.5 b...
This was my first dip in the pool of metaphysical writing. That means I didn’t fully understand everything that happened. But that’s okay because how could I expect to understand something I’ve never come across before. It’s probably the most complicated and confusing book I’ve ever read (okay, list...
Well, this book was... odd. And dense. Half of the book is centered around a boy named Kafka Tamura (he chose the name Kafka) who runs away from home partly because he feels like he needs to in order to grow and partly because of an Oedipal prophesy that was made in his youth by his father. The ...
This work definitely falls into the alternate reality/surreal/magical realism cluster of Murakami's works. We follow the adventures for several key characters simultaneously and how their fates entwine. First, we follow 15 year old Kafka Tamura (his alias, I can't remember his real name). He's fi...
Although, at first, I thought this was going to be over my head, I found that it was an exceptionally well written fantasy, albeit, probably one of the strangest I have ever read. The reader was nothing short of superb, handling the individual voices of the characters so well that I was always immed...
You sit at the edge of the worldI am in a crater that's no more.Words without lettersStanding in the shadow of the door.The moon shines down on a sleeping lizard, Little fish rain down from the sky.Outside the window there are soldiers, steeling themselves to die.Kafka sits in a chair by the shore, ...
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