Reviews with content warning for Animal death - Kafka On The Shore

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Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami

396 reviews

adoboreader's review against another edition

3.5

emotional mysterious reflective 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

Unusual and dreamy. It started off really slow and didn’t pick up until

Nakata arrives at the empty lot.

It’s written curiously, smoothly swapping between third and second person POV and references classical music, movies, and literature.

It left me feeling like I need to read it again to really understand it.

Anyway if my literature class required an essay on this, I think I’d fail pretty badly. :|

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quipo's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

get past the weird parts and its a great story

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karaloyd's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

I have no idea what happened but I enjoyed it nonetheless

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fieval_loves_books's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A great delve into magical realism. Quirky, mysterious, sad and hopeful. All of the hallmarks of a Murakami: sex, cats, history, weird weather, another dimension and a ton of allegory. Certainly a fun read but don’t expect a resolute answer or explanation. Quite a bit is left to readers interpretation. I will say there are some disturbing aspects of this book. The animal cruelty I found difficult and upsetting but I do believe that’s the point. Much of the “disturbing” content is meant to hint at something spiritual and deeper and like a lot of literature the sex isn’t really sex. Although the book follows a teenage boy so it comes up a lot. Many of the characters are loveable. I much preferred wind up bird chronicle but still a great read.

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ac_52's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 76%

While I believe there were many good things this book had to say, the gore and explicitness of everything became way too much for me to keep reading it.

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