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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes
I have to ask. Is IQ84 worth the page count? I've read three Murakami novels (The Windup Bird Chronicle; Sputnick Sweetheart; South of the Border, West of the Sun) and have a couple more on the radar right now.
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It was about a year ago that I read IQ84 and this is what I wrote while reading this book:
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(I am at page 200.)
For some reason this is the first of Murakami's books for me. I find this story strange: in the sense that the persons in it seem to be alienated from the world they live in. That is; if this is the world they live in.
It is written in a crisp style, which adds a certain distance, a kind of relativization of things. All things are interwoven, it seems; like a tightly woven fabric.
(page 400 now.)
I'm liking the book more and more, because it puzzles me. Obsessive, but absent, parents seem to be a constant, demolizing, factor in the life of the protagonists. It seems as if they are manipulated; by other people, by their reaction on their past and by something in their own soul. In how many ways can one be cruel?
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And the rest is history...I read about all his books in that year. Yes, I would recommend it.