Books by Ryū Murakami
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review 1: Popular hits was a quick easy read, wrought with gore and violence! Ok, it wasn't that drenched in brutality but, this book is about one thing, and that is nihilism. But not the Nietzsche type of way, these character were nihilists because of their innocence and naivete.The prose...
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review 1: I was unaware this existed in translation until I just found it here. It's been a favorite of mine since college. Of course, I got into it through the movie directed by Anno Hideaki, as I am pretty much still to this day a huge Anno fangirl, but I fell in love with Ryu through th...
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review 1: I really, really liked how this book started out. Murakami has a very nice pacing and his words are carefully chosen, and that shines through even when translated. The reason this book is getting only 3 stars is because it kept such a good pace throughout the first two thirds, an...
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review 1: A true novel of Murakami Ryu, full with noise and fury. The history is completely improbable. 6 thirty year old women make the war with 6 post-teenagers. That finishes with blow of bazooka in a quasi destruction of Tokyo.It is a kind of exercise of style, a literary manga often ...
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review 1: Major WTF alert!How far would you go to avenge the death of a friend? Shoot his murderer? Okay, accepted. Buy a rocket launcher and blow up people? Umm, not conventional but still plausible. Build a poor-man's nuclear bomb and wipe out an entire district just to kill three middle...
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review 1: 4.5 stars.This book is random and almost ridiculous but the tone and overall feel of the book really makes it work. The themes of disconnectedness and self-centeredness help make the ridiculousness really work, too, because the characters aren't really seeing things in a "normal...
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review 1: I'm not sure whether to blame the original author or his translator for the mess this book's turned out to be. Ultimately, I'm sure it's a mix of the two. Where the author is definitely concerned, the book's ending is weak and poorly-paced, the characters are all flat (It's as th...
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review 1: What a strange, terrifying little book! Years after Aoyama's wife dies, at the prompting of his teenage son, he decides it's time to start dating again with the hopes of finding a relationship that leads to marriage. In his early 40s, he feels out of tune with the current dating...