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Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

557 reviews

er_paige's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

this book was really really weird. haruki writes so beautifully but what the fuck. this books is mind boggling and so beautiful at the same time. i hate and love it.

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alainaparr's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The book became a bit difficult to push through and took me a while to read due to the abundant misogyny and objectification of women it contains, which is a shame considering it had such an interesting and unique plot and concepts within it. Definitely a hard book to rate due to it having so many great things to it as well as so many issues.

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polackova_mp3's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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ufxefug's review against another edition

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iguanaeye's review against another edition

hard book to talk about! really loved nakata and the way he moves through his life, felt very taoist? but I don’t know enough to judge if this is the most accurate lense.
at times found the book a bit opaque and difficult to untangle ideas about war, fate, memory etc etc but then at times really almost annoyingly didactic, especially from oshima about art, but i did like oshima a lot regardless

the chapter with the feminists felt like murakami creating people that don’t really exist in this combination of extremity and total foolishness to prove a point that could have been proved in a less annoying way.

still I found his treatment of oshima’s gender much more sensitive than I expected (but still revealed in an annoying gotcha moment)

also one more negative note UMMM found the incest and rape scenes pretty horrible to read- not something that puts me off a book necessarily depending upon how it’s handled but since murakamis descriptions of sex feel ripped from like a raunchy 80s magazine (so silly man like i actually laughed a couple of times when kafkas penis would make an appearance mid unrelated paragraph) it felt pretty gross most of the time

ANYWAY DISREGARD MY HATEFULNESS I really liked this book I found many of the characters very compelling loved the surreal aspects and I am always a huge fan of magical realism. This is my first murakami book and im for sure interested in reading more I just love to hate and nitpick so I am sorry for this. Sick and delirious right now please don’t judge my clarity too harshly ❤️❤️ I would have given it a high star rating I just can never settle on a rating dont really like them for me

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erin_mair's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging funny mysterious relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I’ve been told murakami said to understand this book you’ve to read it multiple times, probably won’t ever do that, I dont think I understood it to be honest but it was still really enjoyable to read, loveddd the imagery and the whole way through I was hooked but I just don’t think I’ll ever read it enough times to actually understand it, maybe that will change though

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mazzoccatoadele's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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andjeluh's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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jeremie's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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labinsky's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

everyone says to start reading murakami with either this book or norwegian wood, but i never read norwegian wood and read seven of his other books before this one. and i’m glad i did. it feels full. it feels like reading arundhati roy, even though their styles are so different, every single moment in the book is carefully chosen. none of it is auxiliary.

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