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3.67 AVERAGE
3.67 AVERAGE
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I’m gazing at a distant star,” I said. “It’s dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn’t even exist anymore. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”
Compared to other Murakami production this was a total disappointment.
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Brilliant novel again, beautifully written. This is the kind of book you want to read more than once.
mysterious
reflective
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
challenging
reflective
sad
medium-paced
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Murakami'den okuduğum 6. kitap. Okurken sürekli olarak "Sputnik Sevgilim" ve "İmkansızın Şarkısı"nı anımsadım. Bu romanla birlikte Murakami'nin yazarlığındaki motifleri ve şemaları daha net görmeye başladığımı söyleyebilirim. Başladığı yere geri dönen temalar, uzun bir hayat yolculuğunun bir noktasında yaşanan maceralar, her şeyden vazgeçilebilirmiş hissi, sonra hiçbir şeyin gerçekten yaşanıp yaşanmadığından emin olamayış ve ucu açık bir şekilde günlük hayata geri dönme çabaları. Asla aynı olmayacak hayatlar. Bu tekrarlı motiflerin beni hayal kırıklığına uğratmaktansa keyiflendirdiğinin altını çizerim. Murakami'ye ait birer imza halini aldılar gözümde. Fakat az önce bahsettiğim diğer iki romanında henüz bu keşifleri yapmamışken daha bir hazırlıksız yakalmıştı Murakami beni büyülü gerçekçiliğiyle. Şimdi sırrına ortak olmuş olmanın gururu ve muzipliği var üstümde. Murakami'yi okuma yolculuğumda ben de oldukça büyüdüm. Okurken yakaladığım motiflerin beni beklediğim yerlere çıkarması bana huzur ve tatlı bir alışılmışlık hissi verdi. Güzel romandı, müzik repertuarıma katttığı "Star-Crossed Lovers" için teşekkürlerimi sunuyorum.
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
(2,5) As promising as this sounded at first, South of the Border, West of the Sun fizzled out and became a real disappointment. The first half of this book really hooked me, with a tender teenage romance between outcasts, a disappearing woman (a typical Murakami trait of course), and the main character turning into a jazz bar owner, but somewhere after the midway point, things got fuzzier and fuzzier. Its climactic moments were anything but climactic, only leaving more answers and unsatisfactory feelings in the end. On top of that, one of those climactic scenes was the most ridiculous Murakami sex scenes I think I've ever read. On top of that, South of the Border might have the earliest description of underage breasts that I've ever encountered in a Murakami novel - a truly dubious feat that I think occurred only 5 pages into the book. But worst of all: the main character in this was the most unlikable person I've ever seen in a Murakami novel. Besides cheating on almost every woman he meets, he keeps demanding some sort of pity from the reader which, in my opinion, he never earns, not even in the book's final pages which aim for some sort of redemption. In the end, I got surprisingly little from this book where even my favorite of Murakami's traits couldn't really charm me. Really hoping to have better luck with my next foray into his work.