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"Reality was one step out of line, a cardigan with the buttons done up wrong." I have come to realise that reading a Murakami book is not quite an act of reading itself but an act of dreaming with your eyes open. What you see is a series of surreal images barely held together by threads of reason. What matters however, is the feeling these images leave you with; an aftertaste that lingers and intensifies even as the world within these pages turns stranger and more disconcerting; until what yo
“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.” Sputnik Sweetheart ~~ Haruki MurakamiAs I've stated previously, my friend, Srdjan, is obsessed with Murakami. Srdjan is so passionate about Murakami's writing that it is infectious. We've had many discussions about Murakami, and he kept prodding me to read one of Murakami's novels. He suggested Sputnik Sweetheart, or as I call it, Lust and Longing in Japan . So, I took up his challenge, & plunged into this, strange, magical, lyri...
“Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy evening and watch the water flow into the sea… I can’t really say why it’s such a lonely feeling to watch all the river water mix together with the seawater. But it really is.”I hope that Haruki Murakami is a forgiving sort of guy. I’d like to apologize for abandoning him several years ago. I had picked up Kafka on the Shore, set it aside, and just like that never came back to Murakami again. I d...
After the excellent Kafka on the Shore and the perhaps much better Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, I've been on something of a Murakami kick. I find his storytelling fascinating, both in device and in style. His use of the extraordinary-as-mundane is a tasty joy for me to indulge. Sputnik Sweetheart, while not as wonderful an experience as the two aforementioned works, was quite a bit of quick fun.Thematically not dissimilar from Wind-up Bird, this short novel revels in questions of identity, conscious
スプートニクの恋人 = Supūtoniku no Koibito = Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki MurakamiSputnik Sweetheart is a profound meditation on human longing. Sumire is an aspiring writer who survives on a family stipend and the creative input of her only friend, the novel's male narrator and protagonist, known in the text only as 'K'. K is an elementary school teacher, Twenty-five years old, and in love with Sumire, though she does not quite share his feelings. At a wedding, Sumire meets an ethnic Korean woman, Miu, who...
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki MurakamiUnrequited love. That’s what this one is about – and loneliness.The thing about Murakami is, he writes in what appears to be such a simple way. There are no great flourishes, it doesn’t appear too technical, certainly not highbrow literature. Plain and simple. In, fact when reading this I sometimes thought “I can write that”. Not a chance buddy!! There is so much packed into this story – again, it looks short but reads long. Our main character is Sumire, a yo...
This is my first time reading a Murakami novel. It was very good, and very weird. Either large sections are entirely metaphorical, or we've got some heavy unreliable narrator action going on. Honestly, either way or any combination of the 2 is totally fine with me; this book was beautifully written.It was eerily similar to Christopher Priest's The Affirmation in themes and quite a few plot points. I can't help but think that Murakami is a fan of his.
When I first read this (in 2007) I felt bad about rating such a wonderfully written book with just Two Stars!With my second reading (in 2008), I began to see the light with a 7 out of 12, Three Star rating - my one sentence review: 'Second and more enlightened reading of this almost poetic masterpiece about a loneliness, self-identity and relationships, I think?'BY my third reading I could simply put out there, that this is a poetic masterpiece about loneliness, self-identity and relationships,
This first half of the book gave me equal satisfaction as The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid.But I thought the second part was really ridiculous.Murakami's writing is different in the sense that this one is a little mainstream compared to his other novels. Nevertheless this book is so charming. The characters are so realistic and character development is so damn amazing.It's the writing. Yes, his writing. It seems really simple but I have not come across many authors who wo...
This turned out to be quite an interesting read. For the most part, I was utterly bored when reading this book. It contains long passages of bland thoughts and descriptions, and I was starting to think that I had grown away from Haruki Murakami and his story-telling which I used to absolutely love (I have read quite a lot of his novels through the years). However, halfway through the novel I encountered what was to become one of my favourite literary scenes (it contains a ferris wheel), and from...