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A review by iveydocx
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
4.0
Overall, I enjoyed the tone of the story and the eeriness of a double reality that may or may not exist. The first part of the book kind of had me going "What the $@(%?" because of how...strange it is. It's confusing to see how the two main characters are connected to each other, but you have to kind of just withhold judgement and keep moving.
This book moves at an unbelievably slow pace, and some passages feel rather unneeded. However, I still did enjoy the premise of the story and was fascinated by what was going on. I did feel a bit mislead and will say that the story itself is a LOVE story; I thought it would be more about this alternate reality shtick but it really isn't.
Overall I don't regret reading it, although I don't think I'd read it again. It was my first Murakami and perhaps I should've read other books by him first.
A quick note--for those who feel a little queasy about reading 1000+ pages, I would definitely recommend reading them in parts; the entire story itself is divided into books 1-3, and I think that size might be easier to handle.
This book moves at an unbelievably slow pace, and some passages feel rather unneeded. However, I still did enjoy the premise of the story and was fascinated by what was going on. I did feel a bit mislead and will say that the story itself is a LOVE story; I thought it would be more about this alternate reality shtick but it really isn't.
Overall I don't regret reading it, although I don't think I'd read it again. It was my first Murakami and perhaps I should've read other books by him first.
A quick note--for those who feel a little queasy about reading 1000+ pages, I would definitely recommend reading them in parts; the entire story itself is divided into books 1-3, and I think that size might be easier to handle.