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Fiction

NRaleighLiberal

(60,465 posts) Sun Oct 19, 2014, 04:39 PM Oct 2014

Anyone else here reading or finished Murakami's latest?

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage: A novel

http://www.amazon.com/Colorless-Tsukuru-Tazaki-Years-Pilgrimage/dp/0385352107/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413754660&sr=1-1&keywords=murakami

We are nearly done - not reading, but listening via Audible. Interested in your thoughts on it....I still can't decide.

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Anyone else here reading or finished Murakami's latest? (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Oct 2014 OP

I Won't Read It Tace Oct 2014 #1

different tastes...my wife and I loved 1Q84. NRaleighLiberal Oct 2014 #2

Yes Tace Oct 2014 #3

Tace

(6,801 posts)

1. I Won't Read It

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Original post)

Sun Oct 19, 2014, 04:52 PM

Oct 2014

I read 1Q84 when I saw my daughter reading it. It was a waste of my time. I have no intention of reading anything else by this author. 1Q84 was lurid for no reason. --Tace

NRaleighLiberal

(60,465 posts)

2. different tastes...my wife and I loved 1Q84.

Reply to Tace (Reply #1)

Sun Oct 19, 2014, 04:55 PM

Oct 2014

Our daughter too.

Tace

(6,801 posts)

3. Yes

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Reply #2)

Sun Oct 19, 2014, 05:40 PM

Oct 2014

I felt bad for voicing criticism. Especially since I didn't address your question about the new novel.

He's a talented writer. He employed a lot of interesting meta-fictional techniques. But, IQ84 was a letdown for me at the end. (Partly because I actually purchased the novel.)

Yet, my understanding is that IQ84 lends an important insight into the popular culture of post Fukushima Japan. --Tace

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