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Summary: The story lives up to the title
Review: A Wild Sheep Chase had me out the door on my way to pick up this sequel before I had even finished, causing much worry among those sharing the road with me as I read and drove. Murakami's tightly woven loose story continues to descend and ascend through the shadows of everyday life and explore the ambiguities and absurdities of the world. This is an incredible blend of comedy, metaphysics, detective stories, and horror, with plenty of other spcies added along the way. The story reminds me of ball lighning or swamp gas--a bizarre anomoly you cannot explain and may not fully fathom, but are endlessly delighted by.
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Summary: Eerie, Refreshing, Funny, and Sad. A Masterpiece!
Review: Murakami Haruki just gets better and better. With each new novel, he spins ever-increasingly complex tales that read like paintings in a gallery: The juxtaposition of light and dark, funny and sad, quiet and clamorous. Truly a work of art and an outstanding book. Murakami's characters haunt and mirror us, and perhaps this is what makes his work so irresistible! Standing ovation for this book. Keep writing, Mr. Murakami, and whatever you do, don't stop dancing
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Summary: Steal this book! Five thumbs up!
Review: This poetic novel about desire, loss, and ambivalence is easily Murakami's best. As the nameless protagonist wanders through a tangle of supernatural happenstance and ordinary coincidence, he discovers what he has made of his life and how he can salvage what's left of it. Though very Japanese in structure, Murakami's writing avoids being buried in that culture and gives us a commentary that applies equally well to the modern West as it does to the East, while his trademark juxtaposition of the mundane and paranormal gives the book an eerie mood and accentuates the sadness and heroism of everyday life
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Summary: I wish I could read this for the first time again!
Review: I think the greatest complement a book can receive is that you actually miss reading it. Often we go to the movies, read a novel, and two months later you can barely remember seeing/reading it. I miss this book, perhaps more than other Murakami's work. If you haven't read anything by him yet, you must try it.
It's hard to describe the style of the book, but I think he has a pretty universal appeal. A little strange and familiar at the same time. Weird things happen, but he describes them in a lightly straight-forward way.
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Summary: I wish I could read this for the first time again!
Review: I think the greatest complement a book can receive is that you actually miss reading it. Often we go to the movies, read a novel, and two months later you can barely remember seeing/reading it. I miss this book, perhaps more than other Murakami's work. If you haven't read anything by him yet, you must try it.
It's hard to describe the style of the book, but I think he has a pretty universal appeal. A little strange and familiar at the same time. Weird things happen, but he describes them in a lightly straight-forward way.
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Summary: enjoyable surreal weirdness; amongst Murakami's best
Review: Haruki Murakami mostly writes books that fall into two categories: either the 'confused but in love' bucket, or the 'confused young man finds himself totally weirded-out' bucket. The first category has Murakami classics such as 'Norwegian Wood' and 'South of the Border, West of Sun', and the latter has 'A Wild Sheep Chase' and 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle'. 'Dance, Dance, Dance', being a sequel to 'A Wild Sheep Chase', is about as weird as anything published by Murakami. And it is about as good, ... which is to say it is very good indeed.
It is very hard to explain the novel since the story is so .. strange, convoluted, surreal, etc. We have altered realities, a 13 year old spoilt girl with precognition powers, and a befuddled young Japanese man caught in the middle. It all works, sort of. Believable? Not even close. Bottom line: a book best enjoyed by seasoned Murakami readers. Fans will love it.
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Summary: A more gentle Murakami
Review: If you have not read "The Wind Up Bird Chronicle," I strongly recommend it. It is Murakami's best and most complex novel dealing with the images and themes explored in "Dance, Dance, Dance." This is a sweeter story, a kind of love story, set in the strange landscape of Murakami's parallel universes. Although it is not quite as thought provoking as "Wind Up Bird," it is very engrossing and enjoyable.
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