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Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

41 reviews

ericispublius's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

A lot of mysteries in this piece, unraveled slowly unto the end — we walked away with some unanswered. Murakami knits a world that rhymes with ours, but is eerily different. He taps into Japanese folklore in a way that is easy to pick up for the novice

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Rape, Incest, Transphobia, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual violence, and Violence

sebas83bi's review

adventurous dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Sexual violence, Gore, Sexual content, and Blood

soumil_da_vinci's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

It's like fine wine.
Everyone won't like it.
You will have to read some other stuff,other classic books, a taste of magic realism and all that before you get here.
The ending is criticised by many but once you start reading it you will understand the flow, how the story is and by the time you reach the end you will understand why it ends like that even though you might not agree to the ending. Hell, you might not like the whole story but the time won't surely be wasted.
I highly recommend it to one and all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Incest, Sexual content, Violence, War, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Grief, Gore, and Animal cruelty

xadrya's review

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad 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

4.5

Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore is a lighthearted game of "Fuck, Marry, Kill" between the main character, Kafka, and

his mother, father, and sister

. Naturally, when presented with such a strange dilemma, you can only do one thing: nod. And Kafka does just that, nodding at virtually every line of dialogue he can get his hands on. In any case, Haruki Murakami manages to create a genuine masterpiece that paints vivid the battle between our deepset desire for control and the fact that we simply have none. Kafka on the Shore will leave you shaking by the end; if not from its themes, then from its well-realized characters and carefully-crafted plot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Adult/minor relationship

kadinrae's review

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

1.0

Largely an introspective book, with a slow-burn mystery that isn't wrapped up neatly–rather, it's left open to interpretation. The calm introspective tone throughout most of the novel is juxtaposed with a handful of blazingly tense, violent, and–in my opinion–unnecessarily disturbing scenes of animal cruelty, and sexual violence/incest. Good writing, but would not recommend based on the disturbing scenes the inconclusive nature of the narrative that I found unsatisfying. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Rape, and Sexual violence

lettucelechuga's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

I’m only giving it 3 stars bc the writing is just good and the magical realism is very magically realistic!! but dear lord this was SUCH a PAINFUL read , i could not in good conscience recommend this book to anyone. Made me cry in public, almost vomit a couple times, simply awful reading experience.
If anyone recommends this book to u, they ur opp‼️‼️‼️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Incest, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Sexual violence, Murder, and Gore

smiti_nathan's review

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Rape, Violence, and Sexual violence

kungfupanda's review

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Death, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Death of parent, Gore, Incest, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Rape

sophramsay's review

dark mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Incest, Sexism, War, Misogyny, Violence, and Sexual violence

thequiltyreader's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.5

Having finished this book I don't quite know what to make of it. I think I enjoyed it, it certainly kept me reading. I found it slow but intriguing. I also however felt there was unnecessary overuse of violence and sexual content. I was wondering how it was all going to come together in the end but I felt I got to the end and had no idea what happened. I think I need some time to dwell on the book and what I think of it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Animal death, Death of parent, Gore, Incest, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body shaming, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, and Violence