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captaincrunchabunch's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- 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
4.25
martina_otr's review against another edition
4.0
Sono stata buttata senza preavviso dentro un quadro di Dalí.
Scriverò qualcosa di sensato appena mi si riconnetteranno le sinapsi.
Scriverò qualcosa di sensato appena mi si riconnetteranno le sinapsi.
whitee793's review against another edition
5.0
“Quello che voglio dire è che una condizione del genere dopo un po’ diventa cronica. La ferita è riassorbita nella quotidianità e non ci si ricorda più dov’è. Ma rimane. Non è una cosa che si può tirare fuori e mostrare. Se si può, vuol dire che è una ferita da poco.”
reydeam's review against another edition
5.0
I.Loved.Dance.Dance.Dance.
Seriously, this book was an excellent read for me. I completely and thoroughly enjoyed the narrator’s wanderings, his life. I completely and thoroughly enjoyed the story…the plot. Wait! The plot? hmmm…yet again, Mr. Murakami has me on that one. I am not certain about the plot…I know there must be a plot in there, but I really cannot clearly define it, let alone write about it. As with Mr. Murakami’s other stories that I have read, I felt like there was nothing really going on, yet there was so much. I will say, right from the first page, I was drawn into the story. The narrator captured me so completely with his story, with those he interacted with, with those he allowed into his life. I felt myself drawn back Dance Dance Dance each every time I put in down. Matter of fact, I did not put it down for long which means…I stayed up as long as my eyes would remain open reading the story. Once my eyes were ready to remain open in the morning, the book was back in hand….I was reading. I cannot say enough as to how much I liked this story.
The narrator. Do I know his name? Nope, I cannot recall being told his name once, not even in A Wild Sheep Chase. Unlike A Wild Sheep Chase, this fact of not knowing his name did not deter me at all from finding a great like for him. Actually, this time around, I think his no-name status actually brought me closer into his life. While I liked him in A Wild Sheep Chase, I did not feel he had much direction in life. This time in Dance Dance Dance, I was given a much better insight into his psyche, his way of thinking, his desires, his fears. This time, I understood him, and really found myself liking the way he thinks. He had some solid insight. He is not pretentious nor does he desire superfluous things. He is a solid character. The others that come across his path are much better as well. I felt the characters of Yumiyoshi, Yuki, Gotanda were well written, I felt depth within those characters plus their interactions with the narrator was wonderful.
While our narrator remained nameless, do note that the other characters had names. I noted this while reading, and pondered about it for just a bit. I am sure that naming the secondary characters was done on purpose, I think. Did it alter my reading experience? I am not completely certain that it did because this time I did feel a strong liking for the narrator, which I did not before, and he remained nameless. Still, on some level, I do think it gave me a sense of “knowing” the secondary characters a bit better by being able to put a name to them.
Dance Dance Dance is an excellent story filled with intrigue, mystery, loss, abandonment, and relationships.
I will say this again, I loved this story.
Seriously, this book was an excellent read for me. I completely and thoroughly enjoyed the narrator’s wanderings, his life. I completely and thoroughly enjoyed the story…the plot. Wait! The plot? hmmm…yet again, Mr. Murakami has me on that one. I am not certain about the plot…I know there must be a plot in there, but I really cannot clearly define it, let alone write about it. As with Mr. Murakami’s other stories that I have read, I felt like there was nothing really going on, yet there was so much. I will say, right from the first page, I was drawn into the story. The narrator captured me so completely with his story, with those he interacted with, with those he allowed into his life. I felt myself drawn back Dance Dance Dance each every time I put in down. Matter of fact, I did not put it down for long which means…I stayed up as long as my eyes would remain open reading the story. Once my eyes were ready to remain open in the morning, the book was back in hand….I was reading. I cannot say enough as to how much I liked this story.
The narrator. Do I know his name? Nope, I cannot recall being told his name once, not even in A Wild Sheep Chase. Unlike A Wild Sheep Chase, this fact of not knowing his name did not deter me at all from finding a great like for him. Actually, this time around, I think his no-name status actually brought me closer into his life. While I liked him in A Wild Sheep Chase, I did not feel he had much direction in life. This time in Dance Dance Dance, I was given a much better insight into his psyche, his way of thinking, his desires, his fears. This time, I understood him, and really found myself liking the way he thinks. He had some solid insight. He is not pretentious nor does he desire superfluous things. He is a solid character. The others that come across his path are much better as well. I felt the characters of Yumiyoshi, Yuki, Gotanda were well written, I felt depth within those characters plus their interactions with the narrator was wonderful.
While our narrator remained nameless, do note that the other characters had names. I noted this while reading, and pondered about it for just a bit. I am sure that naming the secondary characters was done on purpose, I think. Did it alter my reading experience? I am not completely certain that it did because this time I did feel a strong liking for the narrator, which I did not before, and he remained nameless. Still, on some level, I do think it gave me a sense of “knowing” the secondary characters a bit better by being able to put a name to them.
Dance Dance Dance is an excellent story filled with intrigue, mystery, loss, abandonment, and relationships.
I will say this again, I loved this story.
jenn_the_unicorn's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
silviamichienzi1995's review against another edition
4.0
Inizialmente cercavo una trama, poi andando avanti diventava sempre meno importante. Ci sono mostri, alberghi fantasma, femme fatale morte ammazzate, Idol umbratili, bambine coi superpoteri. Francamente volevo non finisse mai e diventasse sempre più assurdo, mi sono perfino affezionata al protagonista per quanto sia praticamente una pagina bianca come accade spesso nei romanzi di Murakami. Sospetto che questo sia uno dei motivi per cui non arriva al Nobel, ma a mio parere non gli servono personaggi troppo caratterizzati perché così risalta il resto.
Qui c'è pura gioia narrativa che non si prende mai sul serio.
Qui c'è pura gioia narrativa che non si prende mai sul serio.
sangsara's review against another edition
Finished this in a day, and don't think I could have tolerated an extended read with days in between. It lets you go, and then pulls you back in again, over and over. In that way, quite like a dance. In the end, what are you left with? Like much Murakami, maybe nothing. Pictures of another world you may never see or visit again. But you danced.
mx_eyebrows's review against another edition
3.5
3.5/5 ⭐’s | PUB DATE: 1988
Read if you're looking for:
- A story of a man searching for a woman who has mysteriously disappeared
- A strange hotel that has places that both exist & don’t exist
- The uncanny
- People who are not what they seem
- Some returning characters from Murakami’s other books
This is one of Murakami’s earlier novels, and it’s the fourth book in The Rat series. To be honest, all of these books in The Rat series are kind of blending together for me. This is the last one, and in it the unnamed main character returns to The Dolphin hotel, in Hokkaido, where he previously spent time with a woman named Kiki. He’s looking for her, as she has mysteriously gone missing, and when he arrives at the Dolphin, he finds that it has been completely rebuilt into a modern and beautiful hotel, but that it has retained the name. He starts a relationship with one of the front desk clerks, and they begin to find that there are places in the hotel that are not quite in the same world as ours. Our main character also befriends a famous actor, who was one of the last people to see Kiki before she disappeared. As he spends more time with this seemingly caring man, he starts to learn about his dark past.
As usual in Murakami novels, the characters are not completely distinct, you don’t get a deep feel for their motivations, but the dialogue is interesting and well written, and the main character’s sense of restlessness comes through. You can tell you are reading Murakami. One usually reads Murakami for the vibes, at least in my experience. I’m looking for that very bizarre and unsettling feeling that something is not quite right. This seems to be prevalent in Murakami’s later work. While this novel does have a touch of magical realism and some discomfiting imagery, it’s not as strange as his newer writing. I am reading all of Murakami’s books in, roughly, publication order, but I think, if you only want his hits, you can probably skip this one.
CW: Death, Murder, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Sexual assault, Animal death, Infidelity, Alcohol
trin's review against another edition
3.0
The sequel to [b:A Wild Sheep Chase|11298|A Wild Sheep Chase|Haruki Murakami|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255726035s/11298.jpg|2057170], which is Murakami’s earliest novel in English translation in America. It’s also not one of my favorites, and neither is this one: as usual with Murakami it had at least one jaw-droppingly amazing imagery-rich sequence (I won’t spoil it), but it never really came together for me—I wasn’t moved by it the way I was by [b:Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World|10374|Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World|Haruki Murakami|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166154603s/10374.jpg|2531870] or so many of his others. I’d mark this as one for the completists only.