Reviews with content warning for Miscarriage - Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage

nothing happened in this book and it still managed to piss me off to no end.

first 100ish pages i thought the main character was just a guy with textbook definition autism that led to him feeling like an outcast then, of course in classic murakami fashion, he was just a straight up shitty dude and he absolutely deserved it. he turned out to

be a possible rapist?? and no one in this book took the rape accusations seriously? or cared that their friend was murdered because they were burdened by her being mentally unstable??

literally no resolution was reached and so many things were just thrown at the wall and never discussed again

like tsukuru having a sex dream about/raping/being raped by haida (?)

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the_mymble_daughter's review against another edition

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emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Quite sombre. Not sure how it left me feeling. Really enjoyed reading it though. Would have liked a few more things explored but I think Murakami probably didn’t on purpose? Kind of has an ambiguous ending though so watch out for that!

‘We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on living. Even if our lives are not perfect.’

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bunitsu's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

no spoilers!!!
Colourless set my standards for books so much higher! i only recently got into reading and before reading it, i had read 2-3 books trying to get into reading but nothing really drew me in. i just thought was one of those people that couldn’t get into reading. But this changed everything. This book kept me on my toes. Every time i turned a page i didn’t want to stop because of how engaging it was. I’m a pretty slow reader so the fact i got through this book in 2 weeks says something.

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alaskachan's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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dagoth_ur's review against another edition

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emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.25

Ok my first actual murakami book, I started Kafka on the shore and advidly disliked it (however I would like to reread it as I have matured a lot since then) I really enjoyed this

I really like how gripping this was despite when you think about nothing really happens
The character development is so subtle from how he starts eating well and no longer feeling scuicudal
I really wanted to know what was up with sara
I also probably really liked this book because I am a lot alike to the main dude
But what happens to Haida? And what was up with that homoerotic tension twords the end of their friendship?????

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frida_funk's review against another edition

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mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

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tomnoor's review against another edition

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2.0

I’d say that if you took all the misogyny/objectification/gratuitous breast descriptions out of this book it’d be really good, but the reality is if you took them out there wouldn’t be enough material to call it a book. Honestly felt pretty violated just reading this and knowing so many people love it. What I learned from this book is that as a woman my worth depends firstly on my body and secondly on my ability to serve as a sounding board/problem fixer for an emotionally stunted man.

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icarusandthesun's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.5

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