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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

35 reviews

mixuchi's review against another edition

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emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

If the women and sexual scenes had not been written this way, my rating would've been higher. I actually did not mind the ending for what it was, even though people do not like open-ended endings. I really thought the random story about a guy having only a month to live and being able to see these colors would go anywhere.
I also wonder what happened to Haida and I wished it was more explored and not left the way it was.
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kathleendayle's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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gormenghost's review against another edition

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mysterious reflective tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

It's a fine book, I just didn't really click with it.
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amethystbutterfly's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective relaxing sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I really loved this book. It is reflective, you see the world through a man who thinks he’s colorless and boring person. There’s some thinking about the line between reality and dreams, how something that you try to ignore/forget comes to you in one way or another and how you have to accept the things you can’t change. It has themes like depression, loneliness, friendships, trauma, abandonment and music. You see so clearly, without any filters to the maincharacters mind and it is so facinating! It normalizes humanity. 
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laurenleannereads's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious reflective relaxing medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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q_bert13's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I’ve been recommended Norwegian Wood more times than I can count, but I decided to read this as my first Murakami book. A saddening story about loosing friendships- taking time to heal, and eventually returning back home to seek out those past friends. An emotional, reflective story full of complex, colourful characters. Despite how sad the themes could get, Murakami’s writing style is beautiful and warm. 
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vaguelyredhead's review against another edition

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dark mysterious reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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maramalade__'s review against another edition

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sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

predictable murakami if that’s your thing. What it has 
  • sad young man who get way to hung up on old friendships
  • women that are nothing more than a pair of boobs 
  • Trains
What it lacks
  • Any form of character development 
I didn’t hate it it’s just more or less exactly what I expect every Murakami book to be 
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kaylamoran's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This is such a hard book to rate, as there were things I loved and things I hated. 
I hated the way the story centered on a fake rape accusation.  I really don't think that's a helpful narrative, and it wasn't necessary for the story.  Tsukuru could have been shunned for any number of reasons.  I also found it a bit frustrating how seemingly cheating wasn't a red flag?  Why would Kuro tell Tsukuru to fight for a woman with another boyfriend?
  Ultimately I related to Tsukuru in many ways, and I was really rooting for him.  Usually slow paced books with a ton of descriptors bore me, but that didn't happen here.  I do wish Murakami spent a bit less energy describing women's breasts though.
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xxonionxx's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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