I've had a tough time putting my finger on my feelings about Murakami and his writing. Before investing in this collection of short stories, I've read two of the author's more celebrated works, as well as the author's terse answers for The Secret Miracle project. I'm still not convinced of Murakami'...
This is my third Haruki Murakami read and by far my least favorite. After Norwegian Wood and After Dark, I felt this author could do no wrong. Those two novels were vastly different from each other - one a simplistic-yet-moving coming-of-age story and the other a mindtrip into the streets and charac...
Some authors excel at writing novels. Others excel at the short form. A few are equally adept at writing novels and short stories. From my reading of The Elephant Vanishes, Haruki Murakami is not one of those people. Here’s why:Murakami’s novels are lush affairs. By that I mean that his proto-typica...
It was a neat collection of very Murakami-like stories. Most of them have some kind of indirect connections to each other, like cats, or daiquiris, or a narrator working at PR department of a household electronics firm, or a man named Noboru Watanabe, or strange dreams that warp the reality, or unea...
I’ve had a good roll of short stories lately and they have touched me at exactly the right time. What I like about them is that they are quick and you do not invest so much emotionally or time wise. This is my first set of Murakami’s short stories and I know he’s written quite a few collections. I’v...
I confess: I've developed a literary crush on Haruki Murakami. Here's an aside: when I was listening to the audio recording of his book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, and he mentioned his novels, I was thinking I've got to check some of them out. After posting my review of that book he...
So far, my favorite of Murakami's short fiction collections. Highlights include the title story, "The Second Bakery Attack", and "The Dancing Dwarf". Some tales are fantasies of the absurd while others are existential slices of life. Murakami never fails to amaze me and this book is no exception. F...
THE ELEPHANT VANISHES BY HARUKI MURAKAMI This book is a collection of short stories, starting with The Wind-up Bird & Tuesday's Women & finishing with the title story, The Elephant Vanishes. On turning the page to the first tale, I had that strange yet familiar feeling that a Murakami character must...
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